XRP Community Day (online)
XRP Community Day
Join the XRPL community on January 28, 2025, for XRP Community Day—a global virtual event celebrating innovation, utility, and growth across XRP and the XRPL ecosystem. With sessions spanning EMEA, Americas, and APAC time zones, explore topics like cross-chain innovation, DeFi adoption, crypto regulation, and more. Hear from Ripple leaders, including Brad Garlinghouse and David Schwartz, and discover groundbreaking projects shaping the future of blockchain.
📅 Date: January 28, 2025 (EMEA/Americas) and January 29, 2025 (APAC)
⏰ Time:
EMEA: 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM ET
(3:00 PM - 6:00 PM GMT)Americas: 2:30 PM - 5:00 PM ET
APAC Spotlight: 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM ET
(January 29th, 8:30 AM - 11:00 AM SGT)
Platform: Three live X Spaces hosted on @RippleXDev
RSVP FOR ACCESS TO X SPACES!
How to join XRP Community Day 2025
RSVP to this luma event to save on your calendar & get event reminders
Join the live X Spaces on @RippleXDev during the event
Engage in Q&A sessions by submitting questions ahead of time
Follow the conversation on Ripple’s corporate channels and key community leaders
Access event recordings post-event on Ripple’s social media
Each regional session will feature:
Live Q&As with Ripple executives and community leaders
Regional innovation spotlights featuring projects from around the world
Discussions on XRPL programmability, tokenization, and the future of XRP
Why XRP Community Day Matters
This global event is designed to:
Celebrate XRP’s Momentum: Highlight milestones and real-world utility.
Spotlight XRPL Innovation: Showcase projects driving growth.
Unite the Community: Connect holders, developers, and projects.
Inspire Development: Advance DeFi, tokenization, and gaming.
Welcome Crypto Community: Explore XRP’s impact and get involved.
Dive Into the XRP Community Day 2025 Agenda
EMEA Session
10:00 AM ET/ 3:00 PM GMT/ 7:00 AM PT
Opening Session: Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse, hosted by XRPL Commons President David Bchiri, will reflect on XRP milestones, Ripple’s role in ecosystem growth, and the launch of Ripple USD (RLUSD). The session will include a live Q&A with community-sourced questions!
10:30 AM ET/ 3:30 PM GMT/ 7:30 AM PT
Innovation Spotlight: Hosted by a Ripple dev advocate and a community moderator, this session will provide short updates from selected projects in DeFi gaming, tokenization, and RWAs, ensuring diverse representation across the XRPL ecosystem.
11:30 AM ET/ 4:30 PM GMT/ 8:30 AM PT
Institutional Adoption of DeFi: Archax, Zoniqx and OpenEden will share insights on institutional use cases and challenges, led by Markus Infanger, SVP of RippleX.
12:15 PM ET/ 5:15 PM GMT/ 9:15 AM PT
Developer Growth Resources: Christina Chan, Ripple’s Head of Developer Growth, will explore resources like VC funding, grants, hackathons, and accelerator initiatives that are driving developer growth and fostering innovation on the XRPL.
Americas Session
2:30 PM ET/ 7:30 PM GMT / 11:30 AM PT
Regulatory Landscape: The Americas session will begin with Stu Alderoty, Ripple’s Chief Legal Officer, discussing the U.S. crypto regulatory outlook under the Trump administration, Congress, and updates on Ripple’s SEC lawsuit. Hosted by Vet, this session will include a live Q&A addressing community questions.
3:00 PM ET / 8:00 PM GMT/ 12:00 PM PT
Innovation Spotlight: Short updates from community-led projects across DeFi, gaming, and tokenization will showcase the decentralized nature of the XRPL ecosystem, highlighting both emerging and established initiatives.
4:00 PM ET /9:00 PM GMT / 1:00 PM PT
Cross-Chain Innovation and Programmability: Ripple CTO David Schwartz and community members, alongside representatives from other blockchain ecosystems, will explore XRPL’s support for interoperability and programmability, unlocking new liquidity and use cases.
APAC Session (Jan 29)
7:30 PM ET /4:30 PM PT /8:30 AM SGT (Jan 29)
Ripple’s 2025 Priorities: President Monica Long will outline Ripple’s key goals for 2025, focusing on tokenization and driving blockchain innovation across the APAC region.
8:00 PM ET /1:00 AM GMT /9:00 AM SGT (Jan 29)
Innovation Spotlight: Regional developers and businesses will share how they are leveraging blockchain for real-world use cases in gaming, tokenization, and more.
9:00 PM ET/ 6:00 PM PT/ 10:00 AM SGT (Jan 29)
Fireside Chat: David Schwartz will close the event with a discussion on XRPL’s 2025 roadmap, covering programmability, lending protocols, and the future of XRPL, inspiring the community for another year of growth and innovation.
FAQs
XRP is the native token of the XRP Ledger, similar to ETH for Ethereum or BTC for Bitcoin. XRP facilitates transactions on the network, protects the ledger from spam, and bridges currencies in the XRP Ledger’s native decentralized exchange (DEX).
XRP was purpose-built for payments and is one of the only cryptocurrencies determined not to be a security in the US, and with a foundation of regulatory clarity in several other countries.
XRP offers lightning-fast, cost-effective transactions that settle every 3-5 seconds at fractions of a cent per transaction. With over 2.8B+ transactions processed and 5M+ XRP wallets around the world, XRP enables developers, businesses and institutions to build their blockchain applications at scale.
XRP Ledger is an open-source Layer 1 public blockchain with a proven track record and high reliability spanning over 10 years.
Due to its robustness and transparency, XRPL has garnered support from numerous large enterprises and financial institutions.
In addition to being the foundation for Ripple's enterprise blockchain and crypto solutions, the XRP Ledger is being utilized in various use cases, such as supply chain finance, real-world asset tokenization, and DeFi.