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Matt Damon is scheduled to deliver a keynote at Ripple Swell 2026, representing the non-profit Water.org which he co-founded. His appearance highlights a partnership between Water.org’s "Get Blue" campaign and Ripple, the campaign’s exclusive digital asset and payments partner. Ripple will utilize its payment network and RLUSD stablecoin to facilitate faster, lower-cost cross-border transactions for the campaign’s microfinance partners. This collaboration provides RLUSD with a mainstream, humanitarian use case focused on operational efficiency in aid funding, moving beyond typical stablecoin narratives centered on trading and finance. For Ripple, the partnership offers a reputational boost by framing its technology as practical payment infrastructure for social impact, though the actual adoption and scale of such use cases remain to be seen.

Ripple has confirmed an expanded program for its Swell 2026 conference in New York, scheduled for October 27-29. The event expects over 1,500 attendees, more than 75 speakers, and over 50 sessions across three stages. The 2026 edition uniquely combines Ripple's institutionally-focused Swell conference with the developer-centric XRPL Apex event, marking the largest Swell to date. It aims to bridge institutional decision-makers with blockchain development teams. Key speakers include Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse, President Monica Long, Robinhood's Johann Kerbrat, BNY Mellon's Laide Agboola, and Intercontinental Exchange's Michael Blaugrund. Other participants represent Tradeweb, PwC, Amazon Web Services, and the XRP Ledger Foundation. The agenda will cover payments, capital markets, ETFs, stablecoins, tokenization, treasury management, cybersecurity, compliance, and practical applications of the XRP Ledger. Developer sessions will focus on the XRPL's consensus and transaction infrastructure. The conference takes place as New York develops specific oversight rules for dollar-linked digital assets, following the state's July proposal for new regulations governing payment stablecoin issuers. A pre-conference hackathon is scheduled for October 24-25, with the main stage sessions, breakout discussions, and an exhibition hall running October 28-29 at Manhattan's 'The Shed'.