{"id":46266,"date":"2021-07-18T12:02:53","date_gmt":"2021-07-18T09:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=46266"},"modified":"2025-09-01T15:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T12:30:10","slug":"xrp-ledger-foundation-opens-tallinn-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/xrp-ledger-foundation-opens-tallinn-office\/","title":{"rendered":"XRP Ledger Foundation opens Tallinn office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The XRP Ledger Foundation, a non-profit organisation that develops the Ripple-backed distributed ledger ecosystem, announced the opening of an office in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The XRP Ledger Foundation is excited to say that we have an office in Tallinn. We look forward to having <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/XRPL?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#XRPL<\/a> devs visit us there. More info on this soon! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uHOTuMEWmz\">pic.twitter.com\/uHOTuMEWmz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 XRP Ledger Foundation (Official) (@XRPLF) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/XRPLF\/status\/1416081790868066306?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 16, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In explaining the choice of location, the XRP Ledger Foundation said there were several reasons. The most significant cited by the organisation were:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Estonia&#8217;s innovativeness;<\/li>\n<li>advancement in digital document signing\u2014fully digital;<\/li>\n<li>the possibility of e-residency;<\/li>\n<li>one of the board members resides in the country.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">There are multiple reasons, Estonia being innovative and advanced when it comes to regulations, signing official documents (fully digital), e-citizenship and one of the board members being located there are the most important reasons.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 XRP Ledger Foundation (Official) (@XRPLF) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/XRPLF\/status\/1416105778587578372?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 16, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The XRP Ledger Foundation said it would disclose details of the Tallinn office\u2019s operations later, and for now is awaiting the arrival of developers.<\/p>\n<p>The creation of an independent organisation aimed at promoting the adoption and development of the XRP Ledger was <a href=\"https:\/\/xrplf.org\/assets\/XRP_Foundation_Release_24Sep2020.pdf\">announced<\/a> in September 2020. Initial funding for its work of $6.5 million was provided by Ripple, Coil and Gatehub.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, Estonian authorities <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/estonia-revokes-licenses-of-more-than-1000-crypto-companies\">revoked licenses<\/a> from more than 1,000 cryptocurrency companies. In early 2021, the Finance Ministry published a bill <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/estonia-tightens-rules-for-the-crypto-industry\">tightening rules for the industry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog\u2019s news on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The XRP Ledger Foundation, a nonprofit organisation developing Ripple&#8217;s distributed ledger ecosystem, announced the opening of an office in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[35,112],"class_list":["post-46266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-estonia","tag-ripple"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"28","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46267,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46266\/revisions\/46267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}