Here's why Ripple XRP partnerships and MoUs often go nowhere
Over the years, Ripple has announced innumerable XRP partner ships that it ultimately abandoned. Thousands of crypto leaders publish official-looking Press Releases about preliminary initiatives that generate minimal results. Their primary intention is usually to associate the token with the large brand partner and its “utility.” Occasionally, those large brands are not even aware that the partnership exists. Helium (HNT), for example, once promised token holders that it had partnerships with Salesforce and Lime scooters that never existed. According to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Ripple’s partnership announcements were not merely innocent attempts at brand-building — to the contrary, Ripple made over $2 billion off XRP sales in large part as it “made an avalanche of public statements” attempting to increase the value of XRP. According to commissioners, Ripple misused XRP partnerships to sway investors into believing they were making an investment in XRP...