Ripio is a Latin American crypto exchange, wallet, stablecoin, and infrastructure company co-founded by Sebastián Serrano and Mugur Marculescu. Ripio's Twitter Score is 30 out of 1000 as of August 2026, ranking #32,674 (top 10%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Ripio was co-founded by Sebastián Serrano, who serves as CEO, and Mugur Marculescu, who serves as Chief Innovation Officer. The platform claims over 25 million users globally, more than 2,500 institutional clients, and over 170 million transactions processed, with $1.2 billion operated in the first half of 2025. Ripio also carried out the first tokenization of an Argentine sovereign bond, the wAL30rd, marking a notable milestone in the region's digital asset infrastructure.
Ripio raised $50 million in a Series B funding round in September 2021, led by Digital Currency Group. Additional backers include Tim Draper and Boost VC. In January 2021, Ripio acquired BitcoinTrade, then Brazil's second-largest crypto exchange, expanding its footprint in the region. In June 2023, Ripio received approval from the Bank of Spain to operate as a virtual currency exchange and wallet custody provider.
Ripio launched UXD (Criptodólar), a USD-pegged stablecoin built on LaChain, in August 2023. The company maintains affiliations with Mercado Libre, Visa, Stellar, Paxos, Unstoppable Domains, and the World Economic Forum. Ripio has a following of 36,784 and has published 16,995 posts on the platform. Ripio has been mentioned by 163 accounts, totaling 466 mentions.
Ripio's portfolio includes Securitize, Welook and Berry.
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The accounts that follow Ripio include 99 founders, 25 angel investors, 33 influencers and 9 VCs. Among them are Base, Tyler Winklevoss, Polygon, DeFi Dad defidad.eth, Circle and Nathaniel Whittemore.