Jed McCaleb, Ripple Labs Strike Deal to Avoid 9 Billion XRP Sell-Off
Ripple Labs has reached an agreement that will prevent original co-founder Jed McCaleb from selling 9bn XRP - the portion of the protocol's native currency he was awarded for starting the company - this year. The open-source payment network provider issued the announcement in a blog post penned by director of communications Monica Long. The post said that McCaleb, who recently launched his new project Stellar, had agreed to a distribution timeline that will block him from selling more than a specific amount of XRP each year over the next seven years. Under the terms of the plan, McCaleb....
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Ripple Labs co-founder Jed McCaleb has announced his intention to sell his sizable stake in the company's native digital currency. Known as ripples, or XRP, the currency was created as a unit of account and spam prevention tool within the Ripple Labs payment network. In a post on XRP Talk forum, entitled 'Selling my XRP', McCaleb made his intentions known: "I plan to start selling all of my remaining XRP beginning in two weeks. Because I have immense respect for the community members and want to be transparent, I'm publicly announcing this before I start." Price drop. In contrast to the....
Ripple co-founder Jed McCaleb appears to have enjoyed a prosperous 2020, having sold more than $400 million worth of XRP over the last 12 months. Stellar CTO and Ripple architect Jed McCaleb cashed out a whopping $411 million in XRP in 2020, according to an updated report from blockchain analytics account Whale Alert. McCaleb sold 1.2 billion XRP throughout the year at an average price of $0.34 per coin — amassing close to half a billion dollars. The sum reportedly represents 27% of McCaleb’s XRP stash that is held in a settlement account with Ripple Labs, and marks a sharp acceleration of....
Bitstamp has initiated legal action over more than $1m in disputed funds related to the sale of nearly 100m XRP last month. Bitstamp, which operates a Ripple gateway and bitcoin exchange, filed a complaint for interpleader on 1st April in the US District Court in the Northern District of California. Jed McCaleb, the founder of both Ripple Labs and Stellar, and two of McCaleb's family members were named in the complaint. The $1,038,172 in disputed funds were used by Ripple Labs to purchase 96,342,361.6 XRP put up for sale through an account allegedly controlled by McCaleb, according to the....
Photo by _Mo. Jed McCaleb, co-founder of Ripple Labs (formally OpenCoin), announced on Wednesday that he will be selling the entirety of his XRP holdings, resulting in a 40% loss of exchange value over 24 hours. McCaleb began his message by recounting his history with OpenCoin, and revealing roughly how much XRP he controls, I started working on ripple in the summer of 2011. I soon hired Arthur and David to help me. In 2012, I met Chris Larsen. He joined us about 5 months before ripple was launched. Chris, Arthur and I kept 20 billion XRP, of which 9 billion were mine. We gave the....
Photo by _Mo. Ripple Labs co-founder Jed McCaleb's recent decision to sell his entire stock of XRP was the start of a difficult week for the open-source payments processor. After McCaleb made his announcement, Ripple's price took a steep fall. Investor confidence declined further when Jesse Powell, known by most as CEO of Kraken, resigned from the board of Ripple Labs and levied some disturbing remarks about the company's management. Feeling betrayed, Ripple had their lawyers draft and send Jesse Powell a cease and desist letter. Powell posted that letter online for the Ripple community to....