Ripple Labs has become one of the world's largest cryptocurrency companies, but executives aren't stopping there, CEO Brad Garlinghouse told CNBC. Over the past year, the firm has ramped up efforts to bridge the Web3 world and an industry that has long been viewed as its foil — traditional finance.

In an interview with CNBC's "Crypto World" at the Ripple Swell 2025 conference in New York, Garlinghouse said his firm aims to offer a wide range of traditional financial services built on blockchain infrastructure, capitalizing on growing institutional adoption of digital assets.

A blockchain is a decentralized digital ledger that logs transactions across a network of computers.

"I want to see Ripple invest in [the] future and get ahead of where that market's going," Garlinghouse said Tues

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