Chris Larsen

The Ripple co-founder has ridden XRP’s 390% surge since election day to a $9.2 billion fortune.

By organizing challenges and pre-screening nonprofits, Lever for Change has helped a handful of billionaires shift some giving towards global grassroots organizations.

XRP tokens sold on exchanges found not to be securities, but the classification changes on sales to institutions.

A handful of billionaires including Illinois’ richest person, a crypto cofounder from San Francisco and a cousin have come out against one of their own: Illinois’ Democratic governor J.B. Pritzker.

From Coinbase's CEO to a 28-year-old former Wall Street trader, here are 11 billionaires who are riding the wave of the Bitcoin bull market.

As a number of minor cryptocurrency exchanges remove XRP from their platforms, traders and analysts are questioning the future of XRP—with one long-time critic calling it "the beginning of the end" for XRP...

Educate!, a group working to teach skills to young people in East Africa, was just chosen by The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to accelerate its training in Kenya. Its current project: expanding its bootcamp and e-learning platform for motorbike couriers.

Foundry chief executive Mike Colyer doesn't see China as "a major threat" to bitcoin, despite recent warnings the Chinese government could "effectively block or reverse [bitcoin] transactions"...

According to Larsen, “...at least 65 percent of cryptocurrency mining is concentrated in China, which means the Chinese government has the majority needed to wield control over those protocols and can effectively block or reverse transactions”.

Together, Chris Larsen and Ripple donated $1 million each to five local SF food banks — Alameda County Community Food Bank, Loaves & Fishes Family Kitchen, Samaritan House, San Francisco-Marin Food Bank and Second Harvest of Silicon Valley.

Entrepreneurial spirit reigns among the newcomers: All but three who appear on the list of the richest Americans for the first time are self-made.

The ripple (XRP) bull run appears to have come to an abrupt end after last week's over 100% price rise...

Chris Larsen, angel investor and cofounder of Ripple, sat down with us at our Philanthropy Summit to discuss the state of crypto and blockchain.

Steep declines in crypto prices have dragged down some of their wealthiest investors, including Chris Larsen, whose crypto net worth has fallen $5 billion since late January.

Chris Larsen is the cofounder of Ripple, which hopes to create blockchain technology for big banks.

This week's show features Prosper.com's Chris Larsen, who came up with a new way for entrepreneurs to raise capital.