PANews reported on January 17 that according to Unchained, Trump criticized the blockchain company Ripple for not supporting him during the election and instead providing financial support to Kamala Harris. The report quoted an Axios article saying that Trump had said in a meeting with a representative of an unnamed company that the company did not stand by him at a critical moment. The source said the company was Ripple, but a Ripple spokesperson denied it and said the rumors were "completely untrue."

Before the election, Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen donated more than 10 million US dollars to a political action committee supporting Harris , and believed that Harris could correct the Biden administration's major mistakes in encryption policy .