Quick Read – Ripple filed two trademarks on May 15, 2026 covering prime brokerage, securities lending, and clearing—the toolkit of a Wall Street institution, not a payments app. – Ripple already runs the business those filings describe.
Its $1.25 billion Hidden Road deal, now rebranded Ripple Prime, made it the first crypto firm to operate a global multi-asset prime broker, clearing over $3 trillion a year. – The catch for XRP holders is that Ripple Prime’s revenue tripled in a year while XRP fell from above $2 to around $1.38, which shows the company’s growth doesn’t automatically lift the token’s price. – The analyst who called NVIDIA in 2010 just named his top 10 AI stocks
Get them here FREE. On May 15, Ripple (CRYPTO: XRP) filed two new trademarks, and they have almost nothing to do with payments. The service list covers prime brokerage, securities lending, clearing, and hedge fund operations, which are the toolkit of a Wall Street institution, not a cross-border payments app.
For the company best known for moving money between banks in seconds, that’s a strange thing to be trademarking, until you look at what Ripple has already spent billions buying. The analyst who called NVIDIA in 2010 just named his top 10 stocks. Get them here FREE.