XRP News: Actor Matt Damon to Join Brad Garlinghouse, David Schwartz at Ripple Swell

18 Jun, 2026 Updated 19 Jun, 2026

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Ripple Swell Confirms Matt Damon Among Brad Garlinghouse, David Schwartz as Speakers

Matt Damon, co-founder of the nonprofit Water.org, is confirmed as a speaker at Ripple Swell 2026. He will share how the organization is using Ripple Payments and the RLUSD stablecoin to speed up cross-border payments for clean water projects.

Water.org has mobilized $7.7 billion and positively impacted 88 million lives across Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Ripple joined the “Get Blue” campaign to fight the global water crisis earlier this month. Matt Damon’s participation highlights major news for the XRP community.

Ripple CTO Emeritus David Schwartz also confirmed, saying, “I wouldn’t miss it” as this will be the largest Swell event yet. Amid the XRP Ledger upgrade news, he asked the community to bring the best ideas.

“The best part of these events is always seeing the new ways people are using XRP and building on the XRP Ledger. Looking forward to diving into core use cases around payments, tokenization, interoperability, DeFi, AI, and whatever comes next,” he added.

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse is expected to speak on crypto regulation news, the company’s growth and new partnerships, along with XRP and RLUSD stablecoin adoption.

“10 years of Swell converging with real scale, institutional adoption, and Swell + Apex together for the first time this fall. We’ve been building toward this moment — see you in New York!”

Additional confirmed speakers include Ripple president Monica Long, Bullish CEO Tom Farley, and TradeWeb CEO Billy Hult amid traditional finance-crypto convergence.

And we’re back for year 10 (!)…@RippleSwell 2026 will be our biggest event ever, with main stage keynotes, multiple tracks (Institutional, Ecosystem, and Innovation), and much more.

An experience that’s both audacious and illuminating, taking place in the financial capital of… pic.twitter.com/bXoca93VfM

— Monica Long (@MonicaLongSF) June 18, 2026

Will XRP Price Rebound amid Positive News?

XRP fell 4% further over the past 24 hours, with the price currently trading at $1.13. XRP dropped from a 24-hour high of $1.18 to $1.12 as it continued to trade below key moving averages and crypto options expiry.

Furthermore, trading volume has increased by 12% over the last 24 hours. This indicated investors moved to liquidated holdings after the hawkish Fed tone.

In the past 24 hours, XRP derivatives traders on Binance moved into a clear risk-off mode, while spot traders accumulated aggressively. Almost $41 million positions flushed to mark the largest short-term reset since April.

XRP Futures Open Interest Falls on Binance. Source: CryptoQuant

However, CoinGlass data showed buying in the derivatives market in the last 4 hours. Amid recent XRP news of Matt Damon as speaker at Ripple Swell, total XRP futures open interest jumped 0.45% to $2.59 billion. XRP futures OI on CME fell 0.19%, but increased 0.23% and 1.13% on Binance and OKX, respectively.

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