Focus on banking market (2014–17)
2014, Ripple Labs was involved in several development projects related to the protocol,
Ripple Labs proposed Codius, a project to develop a new smart contract system that is “programming language agnostic.
Fidor Bank is an online-only bank based in Germany.
September, the New Jersey-based Cross River Bank and Kansas-based CBW Bank announced they would be using the Ripple protocol.
December, Ripple Labs began working with global payments service Earthport, combining Ripple’s software with Earthport’s payment services system.
Earthport’s clients include banks such as Bank of America and HSBC, and it operates in 65 countries.
December 2014, the XRP price value rose over 200%, helping Ripple surpass litecoin to become the second biggest crypto-currency, and setting Ripple’s market capitalization at close to half a billion dollars.
2015, Fidor Bank announed they would be using the Ripple protocol to implement a new real-time international money transfer network
Western Union was planning to "experiment” with Ripple
Bank of Australia announced it would be experimenting with Ripple in relation to intrabank transfers.
FinCEN fined Ripple Labs and XRP II US$700,000 for violation of the Bank Secrecy Act.
The year 2015 and 2016 marked the expansion of Ripple (company) with the opening of an office in Sydney, Australia and the opening of European offices in London, United Kingdom, then in Luxembourg in June 2016.
Many companies have subsequently announced experimenting and integrations with Ripple.
2017, XRP briefly became the second largest cryptocurrency, with a market capitalization of 73 billion USD.