The XRP wallet that started it all
By: Sagar Shah, Chief Business Officer
On February 21, 2013, seven weeks after the XRP Ledger was first launched, a wallet was activated and given the name: Fuzzybear.
Then, on New Year’s Day 2014, the Fuzzybear wallet did something that made longtime supporters of XRP smile. It placed an order on the XRP Ledger’s built-in decentralized exchange offering one XRP for one Bitcoin.
The order was seen as a symbolic declaration that XRP was architected to be an upgrade on earlier blockchains, offering faster settlement times, drastically lower fees, and a native decentralized exchange.
This became the rallying cry of the Fuzzies.
Who are the Fuzzies?
In January 2025, a group of longtime XRP ecosystem members built a community around the original Fuzzybear wallet and its lore. They leveraged the name, created a scruffy bear mascot, and started making things: community tokens, art, trading cards, online and in-person meetups, and a steady stream of goodwill that’s difficult to measure. In less than two years, the Fuzzies have grown to 20,000+ strong across X, Telegram and the ledger itself. They’ve become one of the most recognizable embodiments of XRP culture.
We keep coming back to the origin story because it keeps the XRP story tied to its roots. The XRP Ledger has been running since 2013. Most of the supporters through the quiet years weren’t always institutions. They were people who believed the XRP Ledger could herald a new era for finance, and they’ve stuck around long enough to see the rest of the market start to embrace it too.
Evernorth x Fuzzy
Evernorth exists, in part, because of that patience. We’re a public company that intends to put XRP to work, but we’d be remiss if we didn't acknowledge that the community played a key role. The Fuzzies are a reminder of the types of community members who helped us get to where we are now.
As a thank you to these longtime XRP Ledger supporters, we are releasing something special: a limited run of co-branded Evernorth x Fuzzy merch during Swell 2026 week.
Come grab yours at FuzzyCon on Monday, October 26th in New York City.
This is a limited merchandise collaboration for Fuzzy Con. Evernorth holds XRP as its primary treasury asset and may benefit from increases in its value. Evernorth does not endorse, sponsor, or promote $FUZZY or any other digital asset or NFT, and nothing here is investment advice or a recommendation to buy, sell, or hold any asset. This post contains forward-looking statements. See the risk factors in Evernorth’s SEC filings.