Ripple’s Open Roles Expose How Its XRP Sales Go into XRPL Ecosystem Developments

Open roles at Ripple, especially within its RippleX department, show how proceeds from the firm’s XRP sales go into developing the XRPL ecosystem.

Ripple has often come under fire for its XRP sales, despite the firm using up only 200 million XRP per month to avoid market impacts. Interestingly, amid these criticisms, information surrounding the firm’s open roles has exposed how it puts its funds into XRPL ecosystem developments.

Key Points 

• Despite leveraging only around 200 million XRP per month from escrow and maintaining a clear sales schedule, Ripple has repeatedly faced accusations of dumping on retail investors.
• However, recent disclosures around Ripple’s roles show how proceeds from the firm’s XRP sales go into building and improving the XRPL ecosystem to attract institutional adoption.
• RippleX manages this effort, with its teams focused on institutional DeFi adoption, ecosystem growth, and improving XRPL’s core infrastructure.
• Ripple currently has up to 112 open roles across 25 departments, such as Engineering, Business Development, and RippleX.
• CEO Brad Garlinghouse has publicly reaffirmed that XRP remains Ripple’s “North Star,” countering community concerns that the company was pulling back from the asset.

Ripple’s Spending Moving Toward XRPL Ecosystem 

Japan-based XRP community figure Eri highlighted these roles in a recent commentary. According to her, Ripple’s job postings show that the money the company makes from selling XRP actually goes back into building and improving the XRPL ecosystem, with the goal of pulling in institutions. This strategy ultimately works in favor of XRP holders over time.

If you’re an XRP holder and not sure how some of that XRP sold by @Ripple is being used, take a look at the OPEN ROLES. Here’s where some of that firepower goes:

RippleX (@RippleXDev), branded by Ripple as: “Rx” is on a mission to establish the XRP Ledger (XRPL) to make it the…

— 🌸Eri ~ Carpe Diem (@sentosumosaba) March 12, 2026

The market pundit encouraged XRP holders who were unsure about where Ripple’s XRP sales money goes to simply look at the company’s open roles. Essentially, these roles reveal exactly where Ripple directs its resources and what the company is actually working toward.

RippleX Behind Most Development Approaches

Eri pointed out that Ripple put its RippleX department on this mission to make the XRP Ledger the leading blockchain for Institutional DeFi. The team focuses on driving the adoption of DeFi around institutions, expanding the ecosystem, and improving the core infrastructure of the XRPL.

Speaking further, Eri shared a partial list of responsibilities tied to the GM Strategy and Operations Senior Manager role within RippleX. 

Among other things, this person leads the day-to-day coordination of DeFi and EVM sidechain efforts. The role also involves building and maintaining a multi-year plan for ecosystem growth alongside the product and partnership teams.

Key Role Shows XRPL-Linked Responsibilities

Further, the person in this position sets shared, measurable targets for all external hubs such as Commons, APAC Hub, and XRP Studio, and also presents success benchmarks and decision points for programs like hackathons, RWA grants, developer relations, and startup programs. 

They run cross-functional projects that bring important use cases to life, in the areas of stablecoin payments, credit and capital markets, and real-world assets, with the aim of getting regulated assets and institutional activity moving on-chain.

In addition, the role calls for working with product and partnership teams to find and grow XRP yield opportunities across the XRPL. Success here gets measured by how much XRP counterparties put to work generating yield, both inside and outside the Lending Protocol. 

The person also teams up with product marketing and product teams to roll out go-to-market plans for major product launches, and builds decision-making frameworks that speed things up, keep things transparent, and help RippleX leads reach clear go or no-go decisions.

Ripple Boasts 112 Open Roles

Eri clarified that these responsibilities above cover only part of one role. For context, Ripple currently has up to 112 open positions spread across more than 15 locations and 25 departments, including Engineering, Business Development, Global Operations, Product and Delivery, Strategic Initiatives, and RippleX. 

Notably, the duties attached to most of these roles, especially those under RippleX, expose how much Ripple invests in building and promoting the XRP Ledger ecosystem.

With some in the community worried that Ripple was stepping back from XRP, company executives have debunked these claims. CEO Brad Garlinghouse recently stressed that XRP remains Ripple’s “North Star.”