Under the pale, unblinking lights of Bloomberg’s studio, Monica Long of Ripple spoke with the weary resolve of a woman who’s seen too many spreadsheets. “We’ll stay private,” she said, as if confessing a sin. “IPOs? They’re just fancy yard sales where you hock your soul for liquidity. We’ve got dough. We’ve got grit. Why sell a slice of the pie when we can eat the whole thing ourselves?”
The Golden Hoard
In November 2025, Ripple did what dragons do best: they collected treasure. $500 million rained down like manna from Wall Street’s heavens, fattening their purse to a bloated $40 billion. Fortress Investment Group, Citadel Securities, and the usual suspects of high finance shoveled cash into Ripple’s lap, no doubt whispering, “Take my money, please.”
Empire of Paper
Last year, Ripple spent nearly $4 billion buying rivals like a kid with a monopoly board. Hidden Road, that shiny new toy, became Ripple Prime-because nothing says “fresh start” like a rebrand. Now they’re stitching it all together, a corporate Frankenstein’s monster humming with the electricity of “tokenized assets.” Monica Long insists this isn’t alchemy. “We’re making stablecoins useful,” she said, which is either a revolution or a very expensive typo.
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