The XRP price dropped 1% in the last 24 hours to trade at $0.5447 as of 03:32 a.m. EST on trading volume that rose 24% to $1.1 billion. This comes as Chris Larsen, the co-founder and executive chair of payments firm Ripple,

Just days after drawing flak from the crypto community, Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen is once again under fire after he went public with his support for VP Kamala Harris and donating $10 million in $XRP tokens to her campaign.

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Ripple co-founder and executive chairman Chris Larsen has donated $10 million in XRP to a Political Action Committee (PAC) that supports Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris. “It’s time for the Democrats to have a new approach to tech innovation,