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🌕According to mansooralrhyb, and according to DL News, David Schwartz, Chief Technology Officer at Ripple, stated that the company is actively seeking acquisition opportunities, and there are several potential acquisition targets at different stages. Ripple acquired the leading brokerage firm Hidden Road for $1.25 billion this year, and plans to use the new stablecoin RLUSD as collateral for the brokerage services provided by Hidden Road.
Additionally, Ripple is also working on increasing the flexibility or "programmability" of ledger $XRP , and is building a lending protocol set to launch in the third quarter of this year, making the XRP ledger more flexible, similar to the smart contract functionality in Ethereum.