BlackRock Just Gave the XRP Community What It’s Been Waiting For

Ripple’s Swell 2025 conference in New York may have delivered one of the most defining moments in the digital asset industry’s relationship with Wall Street. The XRP community, in particular, got its long-awaited validation. During a keynote session, Maxwell Stein of BlackRock’s digital assets team told the audience that “the market is ready for large-scale blockchain adoption” and that infrastructure from Ripple could soon move trillions of dollars on-chain. BlackRock Validates Ripple at Swell 2025 — XRP Community Cheers Stein praised early industry builders like Ripple for proving blockchain’s real-world utility, not just as a speculative concept but as a functioning layer of financial infrastructure source: https://beincrypto.com/blackrock-nasdaq-ripple-swell-2025-blockchain/