Ripple Starts Activity For Supporting  Entrepreneurs & Businesses Which Use XRP Technology

Yesterday on May 14 Ripple announced on its blog that it has started another activity named Xpring, that will offer investments and grants to entrepreneurs that use the XRP token and therefore the XRP ledger.

Ethan Beard who was a former director of the Facebook Developer Network will take the position of the Senior Vice President to lead both Xpring and Ripple’s software developer program. In fact Beard said, “…XRP – with it’s speed, scalability and demonstrated real-world use case – is a great tool for startups and entrepreneurs to build businesses around.”

The partners of Xpring operate as Ripple’s individual entities, although Ripple provides Xpring’s capital. In some circumstances, Xpring will take board seats or proprietorship and ownership stakes in the companies they assistance.

A week ago, money related foundations that partook in a pilot of Ripple’s xRapid platform announced both enhanced transaction speeds and reserve funds of 40-70 percent. In April, Corey Johnson, Ripple Foundation’s head market strategist, mentioned that XRP is not a security. Johnson needed to relieve hypothesis that XRP had not been added to digital money exchange Coinbase because of inquiries over its status.

Toward the start of May, Ripple was named in a class action lawsuit by a financial specialist of XRP who has asserted that XRP sales were without a doubt unregistered securities sales.