INTEL: Ripple will never abandon XRP, CEO Garlinghouse says, denying RLUSD pivot
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse has denied market rumors that the company is scaling back support for XRP to concentrate on its RLUSD stablecoin. Speaking at the Swell conference, he said Ripple will never abandon XRP.
Garlinghouse said the momentum around XRP is currently very strong. He described RLUSD as one of the factors contributing to that momentum and said Ripple sees the two as highly complementary, not as competing priorities.
He then repeated the point, saying Ripple will never do anything it considers harmful to the XRP ecosystem.
What was denied
The denial addresses a specific claim circulating in the market: that Ripple was reducing its backing of XRP, its flagship token, in favor of RLUSD. Garlinghouse rejected that framing. A denial from the CEO does not by itself settle how Ripple allocates resources between the two products, and no figures or product plans were supplied alongside his remarks.
The comments come from a single account of his Swell appearance, and the wording above is a translated paraphrase of what he said. No further statement from Ripple was included.
