Blockchain is moving faster than ever, and the research keeping pace is emerging from the world's leading universities.
Since 2018, Ripple's UBRI has grown to 60+ academic partners, exploring where this tech goes next.
Our 2025–2026 report showcases breakthroughs across three frontiers:
🤖 Autonomous and AI-enabled financial infrastructure
🪙 Tokenized assets & digital markets
🔐 Post-quantum cryptography
Academic theory is achieving real-world utility: https://t.co/G6rFUi1cqR
Traditional finance is not being replaced. It is being re-architected on blockchain rails.
Watch the full episode: https://t.co/n7ZliOe2Q2
In the latest episode of The Onchain Economy, RippleX Head of Engineering @ja_akinyele explains how the XRP Ledger is evolving for institutional use cases across tokenization, stablecoin payments, regulated trading, collateral, credit, and yield.
Together, XRP’s liquidity and utility, regulated assets like $RLUSD, and XRPL’s purpose-built features can support financial markets safely moving onchain.
🚨 HOUSE PASSES IT! Daylight Saving Time going PERMANENT, no more stupid clock changes twice a year!
Bill passed 308-117 and heading to the Senate. President Trump supports it.
Finally some common sense in DC. Spring forward and stay there.
Term limits should be next up.
Kansas is slated to announce a five-year deal with digital finance company Ripple that will feature XRP cryptocurrency patches across all athletic uniforms, @SBJ has learned.
Sources suggest it’s among the most lucrative college jersey patch deals to date.
🚨 XRP OFFICIALLY Becomes the FIRST Crypto EVER on Major U.S. College Sports Jerseys 🇺🇸🤯🔥
@Ripple signs MULTI-YEAR partnership with Kansas Jayhawks — putting the $XRP logo DIRECTLY on ALL Kansas Athletics team uniforms. 👀🔥
This is not just one basketball team…
🏀 Basketball
🏈 Football
⚽ Soccer
⚾ Baseball
🏐 Volleyball
🔥 ALL Kansas Athletics team uniforms
This marks the FIRST TIME EVER a cryptocurrency has been integrated into the jersey of a MAJOR U.S. college athletics program. 🇺🇸
Rare moment where my professional and personal worlds collide: XRP is now the first crypto on the jersey of a major college athletics program, at my alma mater.
XRP Family, meet the Jayhawks. Rock Chalk!
Breaking: Folarin Balogun will be available to play in USA's Round of 16 match against Belgium on Monday, FIFA announced.
The FIFA Disciplinary Committee has suspended the red card issued to the USA striker during their Round of 32 win over Bosnia and Herzegovina.
🚨 JUST IN: The CLARITY Act has officially cleared the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, pushing ripple:native one step deeper into the U.S. federal regulatory process. 🇺🇸
For ripple:native, what happens next:
1. The CLARITY Act now moves beyond the Senate Banking Committee and closer to the full Senate process.
2. The bill may still need to be aligned with additional Senate committee work before reaching the Senate floor.
3. A full Senate vote would then follow, requiring broader bipartisan support.
4. If the Senate version differs from the House version, both chambers must reconcile the final text.
5. Once both chambers approve the same version, the bill can move to the President for signature into law.
1998: "Floodgate." A monsoon hits Arrowhead Stadium in the middle of SNF against the Seahawks, causing a 54-min rain delay and a whole lot of Chiefs wet 'n wild fun. 🌧️🤽♀️