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Created: 2025-07-14 17:06:31 UTC

2/ Who created Stellar? The man behind Ripple.

Jed McCaleb…. co-founder of Ripple

✔️ Left Ripple in 2013
✔️ Created Stellar in 2014
✔️ Received 9B XRP and sold most
✔️ Founded SDF with Joyce Kim

But here’s the twist:
While Ripple went CORPORATE… Jed went SOVEREIGN.


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