Ripple unveils $750M share repurchase initiative extending to April: Sources
While XRP's market price has dropped over the past year, Ripple's corporate valuation is projected to climb 25% above its November 2025 funding round figures.
According to reports, Ripple Labs intends to repurchase shares valued at as much as $750 million from its investors and workforce through an initiative that would establish a $50 billion corporate valuation.
A report published by Bloomberg on Wednesday indicates that Ripple will conduct a tender offer for these shares continuing through the month of April. The share repurchase initiative worth $750 million is said to establish the company's worth at $50 billion, representing a 25% increase compared to the valuation determined after its $500 million capital raise in November 2025. Monica Long, who serves as the company's president, stated during that period that taking Ripple public was not part of the organization's strategic plans.
This share buyback comes on the heels of Ripple's strategic expansion into sectors beyond the cryptocurrency space, which includes the $1.2 billion purchase of Hidden Road, a non-bank prime brokerage firm, along with the acquisition of GTreasury, a treasury management system provider, completed in October. At the beginning of this week, the organization announced its intention to proceed with obtaining a financial services license in Australia by acquiring a domestic payments company.
Ripple disclosed on Monday that its platform has facilitated transaction processing exceeding $100 billion in total volume, while its proprietary stablecoin, Ripple USD (RLUSD), has surpassed a market capitalization of $1 billion following its December 2024 introduction to the market. The trading price of XRP (XRP) has experienced a decline of more than 53% over the past six months, with the token exchanging hands at $1.39 as of the time of this publication.
Information sourced from Forge Global, a platform specializing in private share transactions, revealed that Ripple's private share valuation dropped by over 9% as of Wednesday.
Making progress with US national trust bank charter
During December, the US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency made an announcement regarding its conditional approval granted to Ripple along with several other cryptocurrency firms for national trust bank charters. In its submitted application, the company made a specific clarification that the charter would "not be a stablecoin issuer" in relation to RLUSD.