In an announcement made today, Ripple stated that Snoop Dogg will perform at its upcoming XRP Community Night. The invite-only night will take place on May 15th, 2018, during Blockchain Week in New York City.

Ripple’s XRP Community Night aims to promote the landscape

In the press release, Ripple stated that its XRP Community Night is designed to promote XRP as its own movement. The company continues to differentiate itself from the asset it created, in an attempt to stay true to the decentralization movement.

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“XRP is much bigger than Ripple,” the Ripple team said. “Recall that the XRP Ledger was created before the formation of Ripple and has always been and will always be an open-source project that exists independently of the company.”

Further, Ripple added that “like all open-sourced, decentralized technology,” a growing community powers XRP with or without the help of the company itself.

Ripple elaborated that its event hopes to celebrate the XRP-focused community. It stated that many XRP proponents will be in New York City at the time of Blockchain Week, making it an opportune time for the company to host an event centred on the digital asset.

Putting tha Crip in Crypto! https://t.co/qaQdUru3xe — Snoop Dogg (@SnoopDogg) January 25, 2018

Event attendees will purportedly include members in the community that Ripple hopes to give special thanks to. These members, the organization explains, are figures that help build liquidity, validate transactions, develop on the XRP ledger, and generally promote and adopt the platform.

Ripple is giving away 10 event tickets to the community

While this VIP gathering is only for members on Ripple’s list of invitees, the company stated that it will give 10 tickets to members of the community through Twitter in the upcoming weeks. These tickets will be handed out as rewards for a ‘Twitter Trivia’ contest on April 26th and a ‘Make the Meme’ competition on May 2nd and May 3rd, 2018.

My next record available in bitcoin n delivered in a drone. — Snoop Dogg (@SnoopDogg) December 2, 2013

While Snoop Dogg is somewhat of a surprising addition to the event, the 46-year old musician and media personality engaged with the digital currency landscape several times in the past. These engagements include, but are not limited to, previous tweets about the industry, and expressing interest in selling his album via Bitcoin in 2013 following a comedic statement.

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