Ripple invests in Flutterwave, pushing its stablecoin and XRP Ledger into payments across Africa
The deal values Flutterwave at $3.2 billion, and will integrate Ripple's RLUSD and the XRP Ledger network to speed cross-border payments across Africa.
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Older archive item. Useful for background and entity history, but not a fresh market-moving signal.
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