Exclusive Insights from Ripple’s Legal Chief: Major Regulatory and Tokenization Moves Ahead

• Ripple outlines future strategy, emphasizes regulatory engagement during XRP Community Day hosted by RippleX on X spaces.
• Stuart Alderoty to discuss Ripple’s response to regulations and tokenization impacts in upcoming community events.

Ripple is poised to outline its regulatory future and discuss further strategic plans after a recent legal victory over the SEC. Chief Legal Counsel Stuart Alderoty will lead a session at the upcoming XRP Community Day, scheduled for January 28, addressing Ripple’s stance on the evolving regulatory landscape and the implications for tokenization.

The session aims to offer clarity and direction for Ripple and the broader crypto community as they navigate an increasingly complex regulatory environment.

The event will take place on X spaces, allowing participants worldwide to tune in and engage directly with Ripple’s legal strategies and market outlook for 2025.

What’s next for crypto regulation? 🏛️

During XRP Community Day, Ripple’s Chief Legal Officer @s_alderoty and @Vet_X0 will discuss:

✔️ The regulatory outlook for 2025
✔️ Tokenization policies and their impact

📅 Date: January 28th
🕒 Time: 2:30 PM ET
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This discussion comes in the wake of a legal battle where a U.S. district judge ruled that XRP, Ripple’s native token, does not qualify as a security when sold to retail investors. However, the court did find that some institutional sales of XRP violated securities laws, a partial victory that has rippled across the crypto industry.

Moreover, Ripple is preparing for the next stages of its legal fight with the SEC, with a deadline set for April 16 to submit its cross-appeal brief. This development is part of the broader legal strategy that Ripple has been pursuing to secure a favorable outcome.

The XRP Community Day will also delve into the topic of tokenization, a trend gaining momentum within the crypto sector. Tokenization involves converting physical and non-physical assets into digital tokens, simplifying the process of buying, selling, or trading assets across various platforms. 

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— RippleX (@RippleXDev) January 21, 2025

The XRP Ledger recently introduced a tokenized money market fund in partnership with U.K. asset manager abrdn, part of a $3.8 billion liquidity fund. This initiative is part of Ripple’s broader goal to integrate real-world assets into its network, which saw Ripple investing $5 million to facilitate this integration.

The current price of XRP (Ripple) is $3.12 USD, reflecting a slight -0.20% decline over the past 24 hours and a -0.67% decline over the past week. These modest movements suggest a period of stability in XRP’s price, even as broader market activity appears to be cooling off.

XRP’s market capitalization is currently $179,672,094,120 USD, making it the 3rd largest cryptocurrency by market cap. Its 24-hour trading volume stands at $2,602,506,587 USD, which has dropped by 30.80% compared to the previous day, indicating a decrease in trading activity.

The circulating supply of XRP is approximately 58 billion tokens, out of a total maximum supply of 100 billion tokens, which is fully pre-mined.

Its all-time high was $3.40 USD, recorded on January 7, 2018, which means the current price is about 8.26% lower than its peak. At the same time, XRP’s all-time low was $0.002686 USD, recorded in May 2014.

The current price represents an impressive 115,958.57% increase from that point, demonstrating its long-term growth trajectory.

XRP’s use case as a bridge currency for facilitating international payments remains one of its strongest features. Unlike Bitcoin, which relies on Proof-of-Work , XRP uses the Ripple Protocol Consensus Algorithm , allowing it to process transactions in just 4 seconds with negligible fees (0.00001 XRP per transaction).