According to Odaily Planet Daily, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse clarified on the X platform that XRP and Ripple shares are entirely different. Linqto is an independent company that has acquired Ripple shares from some existing shareholders. Ripple can confirm that Linqto holds 4.7 million Ripple shares, which should be reassuring. However, Ripple does not know how Linqto manages the participants who sold their “representative units” of Ripple shares to Linqto, so it cannot guarantee Linqto’s business practices or how they will handle this matter going forward. The good news is that the value of Ripple shares has increased significantly over time, so for “Linqto unit holders,” these shares should yield considerable returns.