Despite the price drop of XRP over the past year, Ripple is expected to achieve a valuation 25% higher than reported after its November 2025 funding round.
Ripple Labs reportedly plans to buy back up to $750 million worth of shares from investors and employees in a program set to give the company a $50 billion valuation.
According to a Wednesday Bloomberg report, Ripple plans to run a tender offer for the shares through April. The $750 million buyback program will reportedly value the company at $50 billion, 25% higher than the valuation assigned following its $500 million raise in November 2025. The company’s president, Monica Long, said at the time that Ripple had no plans to go public.
The reported buyout follows Ripple’s expansion of its business beyond the crypto industry, including its $1.2 billion acquisition of non-bank prime broker Hidden Road and treasury management system provider GTreasury in October. Earlier this week, the company said it would move forward with plans to license financial services in Australia with the acquisition of a local payments company.
Ripple on Monday reported that it has processed over $100 billion in transactions, and that the market capitalization of the Ripple USD (RLUSD) cryptocurrency has surpassed $1 billion since its launch in December 2024. The price of XRP (XRP) has fallen by over 53% over the previous six months, and at the time of publication, its value was $1.39.
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Data from private equity platform Forge Global showed since Wednesday, Ripple’s share price has fallen more than 9%.
Progress on the U.S. National Trust Bank Charter
In December, the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency announced that it had conditionally approved Ripple and other crypto companies to become a national custodian bank. The company clearly stated in its application that the charter “will not be a stablecoin issuer” for RLUSD.
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