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100 sats \ 3 replies \ @Scoresby OP 28 Oct 2025 \ parent \ on: Nevada Issues Cease-and-Desist to Crypto’s Fortress Trust bitcoin

I believe the Ripple acquisition fell through:

The cancelled deal followed hot on the heels of the news that up to $15m of Fortress Trust customer’s digital assets were stolen. The theft was later blamed on Retool, a third party vendor that was victim to a phishing attack.
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Also here:

https://blockworks.co/news/ripple-abandons-plan-fortress-trust

And here:

https://coingeek.com/ripple-bails-out-fortress-trust-after-hackers-steal-customer-assets/

It's weird because the acquisition announcement is written in the past tense "has acquired" and it is what comes up first in most searches. It was dated sept 8 2023, but the cancellation came within a week.

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185 sats \ 2 replies \ @optimism 28 Oct 2025

Thanks. I just realized that. Funny because I also don't remember hearing before that they backed out; just that they acquired. But then the only reason I saw it in the first place was because everyone was shouting at Mr. Swan on my feed back then.

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100 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby OP 28 Oct 2025

Yeah! The canceled deal was strangely not taken up by the usual sources. Even now in search results the acuisition announcement is more likely to come up than the news that it fell through.

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102 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 28 Oct 2025

AI fixes this. Maybe. Haha

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