A 2012 agreement involving Ripple co-founders Chris Larsen, Jed McCaleb, and Arthur Britto has resurfaced, drawing renewed attention after being circulated on social media amid Ripple’s $1.2 billion acquisition of institutional brokerage platform Hidden Road. The document, signed on September 17, 2012, confirms that Britto, along with Larsen and McCaleb, played a foundational role in developing the distributed, open-source payment and virtual currency platform known as Ripple.