The XRP Roadmap: Ripple President Reveals The Next Big Steps

As Ripple expands its offerings and operations to broader markets, the crypto company’s President, Monica Long, has unveiled its next phases of growth that could set the stage for a new era for ￰0￱ suggested roadmap points toward expanded innovation, deeper institutional adoption, and a broader role for the XRP Ledger (XRPL) in the global financial sector. Ripple’s President Outlines Next Chapter For XRP At the Ripple Swell 2025 event, held on November 4-5, Long shared the company’s ambitious roadmap for XRP , giving the crypto community a glimpse of Ripple’s future ecosystem ￰1￱ with CoinDesk, she explained that Ripple’s vision extends well beyond payments, focusing on developing a robust infrastructure that promotes financial inclusion ￰2￱ to the Ripple President, the crypto payments company now runs two main parts of its ￰3￱ division focuses on helping financial institutions adopt digital assets , while the other is dedicated to enhancing the XRP Ledger through continuous ￰4￱ also emphasized that the XRP Ledger has grown a lot in the past few years, with numerous updates enhancing its strength, speed, and ￰5￱ big growth step the Ripple President mentioned for the ecosystem is a new lending protocol expected to expand how people and businesses interact and use ￰6￱ added that Ripple is currently investing heavily in new use cases that show how its ledger can support more than just global digital asset ￰7￱ has reported that a significant part of Ripple’s roadmap involves bringing more institutions onto the crypto network by offering real, practical ￰8￱ noted that stablecoins, for instance, enable companies to transfer value quickly and ￰9￱ integrating stablecoins into the XRP Ledger , Ripple aims to enhance the cryptocurrency’s real-world utility and strengthen its ￰10￱ on the growth plans, prominent crypto analyst X Finance Bull noted that Ripple’s next big steps mark a shift away from speculation and toward global ￰11￱ remarked that the crypto company’s development strategy reflects a “flywheel effect” between utility, trust, and ￰12￱ Updates And Milestones Revealed At The Ripple Swell At the Swell 2025 event, Ripple also announced that it had recently closed a $500 million strategic investment round , valued at about $40 ￰13￱ round was led by Fortress Investment Group and Citadel Securities, with participation from Panera Capital, Galaxy Digital, and others.

Notably, the large-scale investment round highlights growing institutional confidence in Ripple’s leadership and business model after its most successful year to date. Additionally, Ripple highlighted recent milestones within its ￰14￱ company reported more than $95 billion in total payment volume across its global payments network and more than $1 billion in market capitalization for its RLUSD ￰15￱ also discussed its six strategic acquisitions , completed in just over two years, which have expanded its reach across payments, custody, and stablecoins.