Academy Award winner Matt Damon will seem on the upcoming Ripple Swell occasion, scheduled for October 27-29, 2026.
Ripple is bringing collectively the worldwide monetary neighborhood for the Swell occasion in New York Metropolis. For the primary time, Ripple is combining the Swell occasion and XRPL Apex developer summit right into a single occasion meant for institutional leaders and fintech innovators, in addition to the builders and researchers constructing on the $XRP Ledger.
As seen on the official Swell web page, actor and screenwriter Matt Damon, who can be the co-founder of water.org, is known as as a featured speaker on the occasion alongside high Ripple executives together with CEO Brad Garlinghouse, President Monica Lengthy and CTO Emeritus David Schwartz.
Others embody Tom Farley, Chairman and CEO of Bullish; Johann Kerbrat, SVP & GM of Crypto at Robinhood; Laide Majiyagbe, World Head of Markets at BNY; Michael Blaugrund, Vice President of Strategic Initiatives at Intercontinental Alternate (ICE); and Raghuram Rajan, former Governor of the Reserve Financial institution of India.
In a Friday X put up, the Swell occasion up to date its speaker listing to incorporate Alastair Sewell, Senior Funding Director at Aviva; Chase Lax, CEO of Susquehanna Crypto; Gary White, CEO and co-founder of water.org; and Jenny Simply, co-founder of PEAK6.
Extra voices are becoming a member of the Swell speaker lineup:
Alastair Sewell, Senior Funding Director at Aviva
Chase Lax, CEO of Susquehanna Crypto
Gary White, CEO and co-founder of https://t.co/SBdXm1OVeI
Jenny Simply, co-founder of PEAK6
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Water.org, co-founded by Damon, is a Ripple companion, which makes his look vital. The connection offers Damon’s look a extra sensible angle than a typical movie star keynote; nevertheless, the precise particulars of what Damon will focus on had been scarce at press time.
Ripple expands
In October 2025, Ripple revealed that a number of of the world’s main improvement and humanitarian nonprofit organizations, together with Water.org, are leveraging Ripple Funds and the Ripple USD (RLUSD) stablecoin to assist enhance the pace, transparency, and impression of support supply and funding.
In an announcement on Friday, Ripple unveiled the launch of its Delta One enterprise inside Ripple Prime, its international, multi-asset prime brokerage platform. Ripple Prime’s Delta One allows shoppers to execute Whole Return Swaps throughout U.S.-listed equities, indices, and digital belongings.
