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20."Ripple"'s success is driven in substantial part by having international banks and financial institutions adopt the Ripple Technology, and embrace XRP.
To that end, in 2016, "Ripple" began talking with R3, a company that touts itself as a "50 member initiative” and the first consortium of the world's largest financial institutions, "focused exclusively on developing a next generation financial transaction network... based on distributed ledger technology.
R3 represented to "Ripple" that R3 could help Ripple succeed by partnering with "Ripple" to promote the Ripple Technology to banks in the R3 consortium.
For example, on February 22, 2016, R3's CEO, David Rutter reached out to "Ripple" regarding new proof of concepts with banks in R3's consortium, and solicitously offered, "If we R3) could help you guys by building a broader community around this project by doing it in our lab let me know.
21.Based on R3's representations, "Ripple" engaged in discussions with R3 and its CEO, beginning in March 2016, to explore joint opportunities between the two companies.
CEO Rutter made R3's end goal clear in a March 9, 2016 email to "Ripple": “we are really excited to work with you guys...
I would like to be very clear with the banks that if we run this experiment the end game IS commercialization of a product.
” Mr.Rutter emphasized in a March 28, 2016 email to "Ripple", regarding potential joint opportunities, that the "commercial angle' is indeed "why we all want to do these things anyway.
22.Discussions proceeded through the spring of 2016.
On April 1, 2016, "Ripple" had a call with R3's team, including Mr.Rutter.
On that call, the "Ripple" staff described their goals of becoming a market leader in cross border payments and growing XRP into the primary digital asset used among global banks.
Mr.Rutter and the R3 team indicated that they understood "Ripple"'s goals and promised that R3 could put XRP on the map-just as they represented they had done with Ethereum, another cryptocurrency on the market.
23.The Parties created a multi-phase plan to accomplish "Ripple"'s goals.
The plan started with Project Xenon, a test where participating banks would use XRP with Ripple Technology.
Those banks would use XRP provided by "Ripple" to settle cross border payments.
If Project Xenon was successful, the Parties planned to next form a Commercial Partnership with the goal of supporting full, on-going deployment of XRP by banks as a bridge asset to settle their cross-border transactions using "Ripple" Technology.
24.On May 24, 2016, the Parties executed a Memorandum of Understanding Regarding Project Xenon and Potential Commercial Partnership, which reiterated the Parties' understanding of forming a Commercial Partnership upon "the successful conclusion of Project Xenon).
25.In the weeks that followed, "Ripple" worked with R3 and the participating banks, sharing confidential and proprietary technological information about the Ripple Technology.
"Ripple" also provided XRP to each participating bank to undertake the transfers.
26.In early July 2016, the Parties initiated Project Xenon.
Twelve of R3's participating banks were tasked with operating "Ripple" Technology and settling transactions with each other in XRP over the course of several weeks.
27.On July 29, 2016, an R3 Associate Director, Clemens Wan, sent an email titled, "Xenon Overview (midpoint)' to all participating banks and the "Ripple" team touting Project Xenon's "successes' by the halfway mark.
Todd McDonald, a co-founder of R3, forwarded Mr.
Wan's email to the "Ripple" executive team stating: "Great momentum and looks to be really solid outputs from the Xenon project.Exciting stuff.)" R3 CEO Rutter wrote the "Ripple" team congratulating them: "Great stuff guys.
28.Mr.Wan continued to stoke the teams' enthusiasm through early August, confidently assuring "Ripple" in an August 3, 2016 email that "once projects like the Xenon project) are completed and reviews are shared with members, other banks tend to get interested and want to participate in second versions of these projects (never an exact redo, but usually an increase of scope and more members).
” Mr.Wan further positioned R3 as uniquely capable of delivering eager banks to the table, describing R3 in an August 15, 2016 email to "Ripple" as "a growing group with so many members.
