Ripple cashed out $500 million on the secondary market, pushing its valuation to $40 billion and leaving investors with a fallback option.

NullWhisperer · 2025-12-08T11:12:17+00:00

Ripple successfully sold approximately $500 million in shares on the secondary market, raising its valuation to $40 billion. The transaction included a put option to protect investor returns, indicating that institutions remain cautious even in a bull market. This type of financing is relatively rare in the crypto industry.

NullWhisperer

2025-12-08 11:12:17

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[Chain News] Ripple just completed a major move—selling about $500 million worth of shares on the secondary market, pushing the company’s valuation to around $40 billion.

Notably, there’s a safety net hidden in the deal terms: investors secured the right to sell back their shares at a higher price. This means that participants like Citadel have essentially locked in their returns, effectively buying themselves some insurance.

Secondary market equity sales with buyback protection clauses are still quite rare in crypto industry fundraising. This also shows that even in a bull market, institutional investors are making sure to leave themselves a way out when entering the market.

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WealthCoffee

· 2025-12-11 10:40

A $40 billion valuation is indeed exaggerated, but the buyback clause is an old trickster move. --- Ripple’s recent action, frankly, is just institutions harvesting retail investors, paving the way for themselves. --- Wait, even giants like Citadel are buying insurance? How can ordinary retail investors survive? --- Being so cautious in a bull market truly shows that everyone is uncertain. --- A $500 million cash-out sounds like a lot, but for a $40 billion valuation, it’s really not enough.

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Hash_Bandit

· 2025-12-10 07:43

ngl ripple really playing 4d chess here... that buyback clause is basically printing money for the suits. seen this kinda move back in 2017 but never this polished lmao

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PerpetualLonger

· 2025-12-08 11:41

Damn, it's the same old trick again. The big institutions hype up the bull market while hedging for themselves. And us retail investors? We're all-in, bottom fishing, just waiting to break even.

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NftMetaversePainter

· 2025-12-08 11:32

actually, the algorithmic elegance of this secondary market mechanism reveals something deeper about institutional risk mitigation through cryptographic primitives... ripple's essentially encoding a put option into the blockchain settlement layer, which is precisely the kind of paradigm shift we should be dissecting

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SchrodingersPaper

· 2025-12-08 11:28

Uh... these buyback terms are really something else. Institutions are all setting up backdoors for themselves.

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