XRP News: Ripple’s Buyback Boosts Its Valuation, Not Its Holders

In XRP news today, Ripple has agreed to buy back $750M in shares from employees and early investors, a deal that values the privately held company at roughly $50Bn, up from about $40Bn in November 2025.

That makes Ripple worth nearly twice as much as stablecoin issuer Circle, even as the XRP token trades roughly 60% below its record high from last summer, according to CoinGecko.

The gap between a soaring corporate valuation and a battered token price is not a contradiction; it is the story.

Here is the tension this article works through: Ripple’s balance sheet is thriving, but a larger Ripple share buyback and a higher Ripple valuation do not give XRP investors any equity, cash-flow rights, or a guaranteed price floor.