Chris Larsen

Brad Garlinghouse, the CEO of Ripple Labs, underscored the significance of engaging with candidates promoting pro-cryptocurrency policies, irrespective of political affiliations. What Happened: Responding to an X post by the co-founder of the company, Chris Larsen, who announced donating $10...

Ripple (CRYPTO: XRP) Labs co-founder Chris Larsen has made a significant financial contribution to Kamala Harris‘ presidential campaign, donating nearly $10 million to support the Vice President's run for the White House. What Happened: This comes just weeks before the highly anticipated...

Late September at a Wall Street Fundraiser, Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris made an appeal directly to crypto and AI technology industries with a tech forward statement Harris stated: "We will partner together to invest in America's competitiveness, to invest in...

Blockchain platform Ripple (CRYPTO: XRP) joined a group of 88 current and former top executives endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris for president. The support of Chris Larsen, co-founder of Ripple, is noteworthy given Ripple’s recent legal victory against the U.S. Securities and Exchange...

Binance CEO Richard Teng on Friday announced the crypto exchange froze $4.2 million in XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) tokens linked to the recent $120 million security breach. Teng said on X, formerly known as Twitter, that XRP Ledger's developers, responsible for maintaining the...

Ripple's (CRYPTO: XRP) token experienced a significant drop of over 5% on Wednesday amid rumors of a network hack involving $112.5 million. Ripple's Executive Chairman and co-founder Chris Larsen addressed these concerns on X, stating the breach affected his personal XRP...

In Ripple’s (CRYPTO: XRP) ongoing lawsuit, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) does not have a good chance of winning its appeal against the company. Lawyer Bill Morgan who is closely following the lawsuit said in an X post that all the odds are in favour of...

For blockchain innovator Ripple Labs (CRYPTO: XRP), the past two years have been fraught with uncertainties on account of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) action in December 2020 regarding $1.3 billion of capital raised by the company’s co-founder Chris Larsen...

Chris Larsen, the co-founder of XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) issuer Ripple Labs, has unveiled a $5 million campaign to change Bitcoin’s (CRYPTO: BTC) consensus mechanism. What Happened: The campaign “Change the Code, Not the Climate" will run...

Ripple Labs Inc, the Silicon Valley company behind the namesake payment protocol and cryptocurrency XRP (XRP), might move out of the U.S. due to limited guidelines in the digital assets space. Co-founder Chris Larsen opened up speculations with his comment, “ we’re even...

The Benzinga Fintech Summit is a gathering of the top leaders in payments, lending, capital markets, blockchain and cryptocurrencies. This year’s event is Nov. 14 in San Francisco and features featuring brokerage leaders like Barry Metzger, SVP of trading at Charles Schwab Corporation (NYSE:...

Benzinga had the chance to speak with Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen at the 2017 Benzinga Fintech Summit. Larsen discussed the ways Ripple is revolutionizing international payments and made predictions about the long-term applications of blockchain technology. What Is Ripple? Ripple is one of the...

Blockchain enthusiasm is all too common on Wall Street, inspiring hollow or half-baked announcements of new corporate priorities. But maybe your firm’s ambitions go beyond a PR headline. Maybe your professed interest is sincere, but your strategy is lacking. Ripple Co-Founder and Chairman...

Founding one fintech company isn’t easy. Chris Larsen has built three, and he did it before fintech became the latest buzzword to open VC pocketbooks. Larsen founded E-Loan in 1996, and it quickly became the largest provider of online mortgages in its heyday. His next venture was Prosper...