XRP 'At The Heart' Of Everything Ripple Does: Garlinghouse
THE SO WHAT
Ripple leaning into regulation and licensing while pushing RLUSD as “the most trusted stablecoin” is a bid to anchor XRP inside a compliant payments stack. If you’re a financial institution experimenting with tokenized dollars, expect more pressure to pick ecosystems where the issuer is visibly courting regulators, not avoiding them.
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