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1.This is a case about Defendants misleading "Ripple" to enter into multiple contracts, and then breaching those contracts after they were signed.
"Ripple" is a financial technology company that has developed state-of-the-art software for financial transactions with a vision to connect banks, payment providers, digital asset exchanges and corporates to provide a frictionless experience to send money globally.
This state of the art technology is built on distributed ledger concepts.
"Ripple" also holds XRP, a unique digital asset that solves the current friction experienced with global payments.
XRP is a highly valued crypto currency (other cryptocurrencies include Bitcoin and Ethereum).
To that end, "Ripple" has expended significant time and effort to expose these financial institutions, including banks, central banks and regulators worldwide, to the technology and the unique properties of XRP, to demonstrate how these technologies can facilitate seamless international financial transactions in revolutionary ways.
3.Beginning in 2016, R3 touted itself to "Ripple" as a leading consortium of banks with whom "Ripple" should partner.
R3 represented to "Ripple", among other things, that R3 would work to get "Ripple" access to R3's large body of banks, would help promote "Ripple"'s technology and XRP to those banks, and would be a foundational component of "Ripple"'s success.
With respect to these efforts, R3's CEO assured to "Ripple" that "the endgame is
commercialization of a product.
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4.On the strength of those and many other R3 representations, "Ripple" entered into a Technology Provider Agreement (the "TPA") and Option Agreement (the "Option' and, collective with the TPA, the “Agreements”) with R3.
The TPA described the Option and its terms, and the Option expressly noted that it was part of the TPA.
The Option granted R3 the right to purchase 5 billion XRP at a certain price.
5.Almost immediately after the Agreements were signed, R3 disappeared as a partner. R3 failed to take any steps to perform remaining obligations under the TPA, and instead focused all its attention on fund-raising.
That shifted focus continued for months and months.
Indeed, eight months after the signing of the Agreements, R3's CEO wrote that he had "no idea what's going on with XRP," and hoped to soon be able to start paying attention to "Ripple"'s business.
That attention, or efforts to comply with R3's obligations under the TPA, never came.
6.In addition, within months of the Agreements' execution, several key banks departed from R3's consortium.
These departures and R3's reduced status in the banking world greatly decreased the value proposition of "Ripple"'s partnering with R3.
8.In June of 2017, after having burned almost a year waiting for R3 to live up to its promises, "Ripple" terminated the Agreements.
R3 failed to cure its material breaches within 10 days, and instead threatened "Ripple" with litigation.
"Ripple" brings this lawsuit to address the harm caused to it by R3's fraud, breaches, and misconduct.