Ripple Labs, the firm on the inspire of the XRP token, appears to have supplied its early investors an different exit technique within the make of a fragment buyback.

In accordance to a Wednesday sage from Reuters, citing two sources familiar with the topic, the firm plans to aquire inspire $285 million worth of shares from early investors and workers.

The relaxed offer would heed the firm at $11.3 billion, and investors would be allowed to promote a most of 6% of their stake within the firm.

This isn’t the main time that Ripple has engaged in a fragment buyback – the firm repurchased shares in January 2022 after it secured a $200 million funding round. At the time of that buyback, Ripple became valued at $15 billion.

Ripple later confirmed the relaxed offer to Reuters, adding that the firm plans to employ $500 million within the proposed buyback to duvet the costs of converting restricted inventory gadgets into shares and taxes.

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse additionally suggested the publication that the firm plans to raise out more fragment buybacks on a on daily basis basis as a technique to develop liquidity for investors, but has no plans for an Preliminary Public Offering (IPO) given the “regulatory uncertainty” within the U.S.

For the greater section of two years, Ripple became engaged in a compatible fight with the U.S. Securities and Alternate Commission (SEC), with the regulator claiming that the firm had supplied unregistered securities from the sale of XRP tokens.

In July 2023, a U.S. District Decide granted Ripple a partial victory, ruling that the sale of XRP on exchanges and various platforms didn’t constitute investment contracts.

At the time of writing, XRP became trading at $0.60, gaining 5.8% over the final 24 hours, joining a host of altcoins that rallied after the SEC approved 11 plight Bitcoin ETFs earlier this day.