{"id":78295,"date":"2026-03-30T13:16:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T13:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=78295"},"modified":"2026-03-30T13:16:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T13:16:32","slug":"inside-the-viral-2026-resurgence-of-ripples-hypothetical-listing-fee-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=78295","title":{"rendered":"Inside The Viral 2026 Resurgence Of Ripple&#8217;s &#8216;Hypothetical&#8217; Listing Fee Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Ripple<\/strong> CTO <strong>David Schwartz<\/strong> told a \u201ccompletely made up, hypothetical story\u201d in 2023 where an unnamed exchange demanded millions of dollars to list <strong>XRP<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/XRP-USD\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"XRP\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/xrp\/usd\">XRP<\/a>), with the token later accounting for 20% of the exchange\u2019s revenue after Ripple struck a deal.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Hypothetical That Wasn\u2019t So Hypothetical<\/h3>\n<p>In May 2023, Schwartz <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/pumpius\/status\/2038281488962121780\">posted<\/a> a cryptic tweet saying the story of <strong>Coinbase<\/strong> <a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"COIN\" data-exchange=\"NASDAQ\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/COIN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(NASDAQ:<\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/COIN\">COIN<\/a>) listing XRP was \u201cthe only story I most wish I could tell that I can\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A month later, he followed up with a disclaimer that he was about to tell a \u201ccompletely made up, hypothetical story\u201d where any resemblance to real exchanges was \u201centirely coincidental.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In his hypothetical, an unnamed exchange refuses to list XRP even though doing so &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/03\/51537141\/inside-the-viral-2026-resurgence-of-ripples-hypothetical-listing-fee-story?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Inside\" the viral resurgence of ripple listing fee story>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ripple CTO David Schwartz told a \u201ccompletely made up, hypothetical story\u201d in 2023 where an unnamed exchange demanded millions of dollars to list XRP (CRYPTO: XRP), with the token later accounting for 20% of the exchange\u2019s revenue after Ripple struck a deal. The Hypothetical That Wasn\u2019t So Hypothetical In May 2023, Schwartz posted a cryptic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-78295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}