Snoop Dogg Helps Ripple's Crypto Community Get High at XRP Event
- Manhattan gathering celebrated disruptive money-transfer token
- Rapper invited audience to hang out, drink and smoke weed
This article is for subscribers only.
The smell of marijuana wafted through a half-filled event space in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District, as a group of cryptocurrency believers downed champagne and blood orange margaritas.
The event, sponsored by Ripple Labs Inc., brought together XRP loyalists and skeptics alike for a concert headlined by 46-year-old rapper Snoop Dogg on Tuesday evening. The invitation-only XRP Community Night celebrated a popular but controversial token intended to disrupt international money transfers.