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Brevan Howard taps Ripple Prime for multi-asset settlement services
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Brevan Howard taps Ripple Prime for multi-asset settlement services

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InstitutionalCrypto Coin Show News Team·October 6, 2026·3 min read

Ripple Prime, the crypto firm’s $1.25 billion acquisition of a multi-asset prime broker, now serves one of Wall Street’s largest alternative fund managers, signaling institutional adoption of cross-asset settlement infrastructure that blurs the line between traditional and digital finance.

  • Brevan Howard, managing $35 billion in assets, will access Ripple Prime’s multi-asset prime brokerage, clearing and financing services under an expanded agreement announced October 6.
  • Ripple Prime reportedly cleared over $3 trillion annually before the expansion and serves more than 300 institutional clients globally across equities, indices and digital assets.
  • The partnership deepens after Brevan Howard affiliates participated in Ripple’s $500 million strategic funding round in 2025, establishing ongoing confidence in the platform’s growth.
  • $35B Assets under management by Brevan Howard, a major Wall Street alternative investment manager.
  • $1.25B Price Ripple paid to acquire Hidden Road, the prime brokerage platform now rebranded as Ripple Prime.
  • $3T Annual clearing volume through Ripple Prime before the Brevan Howard expansion agreement.

Ripple and Brevan Howard announced Tuesday (October 6) that the global alternative investment manager will now access Ripple Prime’s multi-asset prime brokerage, clearing and financing services, marking the latest institutional validation for the crypto firm’s $1.25 billion acquisition of Hidden Road. Ripple Prime is the only cryptocurrency platform to operate a regulated, global multi-asset prime broker, infrastructure that lets hedge funds and asset managers execute trades across US equities, indices and digital assets through a single counterparty, cross-margining exposures across all three classes. Brevan Howard, which manages approximately $35 billion for institutional clients including sovereign wealth funds and pension plans, will gain access to this unified settlement layer.

The partnership reflects growing institutional demand for prime brokerage that spans traditional and digital markets without operational friction.

Brevan Howard’s $500 Million Vote of Confidence Deepens Into Prime Services Deal

The two firms have maintained a relationship since Ripple’s 2023 settlement with the SEC over XRP’s regulatory status. Funds managed by Brevan Howard affiliates participated in Ripple’s $500 million strategic investment round in 2025, a significant signal of institutional confidence in Ripple’s platform and growth strategy.

The new prime brokerage agreement builds directly on that foundation, moving Brevan Howard from passive investor to active user of Ripple’s core infrastructure.

As digital and traditional markets become more interconnected, the need for institutional-quality digital asset infrastructure that enables a seamless experience for investors is only growing. Ripple has built a differentiated platform that we expect will provide our investment teams with increased operational ease and capital efficiency.

Alan McGroarty, Group Chief Operating Officer, Brevan Howard

Noel Kimmel, President of Ripple Prime, framed the expansion as validation of the firm’s competitive position. “There are few firms equipped to provide the next generation of prime services that sophisticated investors expect, and Brevan Howard’s trust in Ripple Prime is recognition of our strong competitive position and cross-asset capabilities,” he said in the announcement.

Unified Settlement for Equities and Digital Assets Reshapes Prime Brokerage Competition

Ripple Prime’s core innovation, cross-margining equities, indices and crypto through a single prime broker relationship, addresses a long-standing operational fragmentation in global finance.

Traditionally, asset managers maintain separate prime broker relationships for equities and derivatives, then execute digital asset trades through cryptocurrency venues with no capital efficiency bridge between them. Ripple Prime eliminates that friction by offering clearing and financing across all three asset classes under one counterparty agreement and regulatory framework.

The platform reportedly cleared more than $3 trillion annually before the Brevan Howard expansion and already serves over 300 institutional clients. By integrating Brevan Howard, a $35 billion manager with exposure to both traditional macro strategies and digital asset bets, Ripple gains a heavyweight validator of its cross-asset thesis.

The question of whether this model can scale to compete with traditional prime brokers like Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Citadel Securities remains open; those firms do not currently offer native digital asset settlement, creating Ripple Prime’s unique position but also limiting its addressable market to institutions willing to adopt a crypto-native platform.

The CCS read. Institutional adoption of Ripple Prime’s cross-asset settlement reduces friction costs for managers already deploying capital across equities and crypto, but the model’s growth depends on whether traditional prime brokers build competing digital asset infrastructure or whether regulators impose custody or capital rules that favor centralized venues over Ripple’s distributed model.

Ripple has not disclosed whether other major asset managers will adopt Ripple Prime’s multi-asset services under similar expanded agreements, nor has it published audited financial or settlement volume data for 2024 or 2025, metrics that would help institutional investors assess the platform’s operational depth against traditional prime brokers.

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XRP Ledger gains privacy and AI agent support in Ripple’s Seoul conference reveal
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XRP Ledger gains privacy and AI agent support in Ripple’s Seoul conference reveal

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Agentic FinanceCrypto Coin Show News Team·October 4, 2026·3 min read

Ripple used a developer conference in Seoul, South Korea to detail a set of XRP Ledger upgrades built for institutions and autonomous software, including confidential transfers, transaction batching and dedicated infrastructure for AI agents. The moves push the network beyond simple payments toward workflows that banks and automated systems can use without exposing sensitive transaction data.

  • Ripple plans confidential transfers using zero-knowledge proofs so institutions can hide transaction details while still proving validity to regulators.
  • AI agents have already generated more than 11 million transactions on the XRP Ledger, according to Ripple engineering lead Ayo Akinyele.
  • The ledger settles transactions in roughly three to five seconds, a speed Ripple says suits machine-to-machine payments.
  • 11M+ AI agent-driven transactions already recorded on the XRP Ledger
  • 3-5s settlement time Ripple cites for machine-to-machine payments
  • 3 major upgrade categories unveiled: privacy, batching and AI infrastructure

The XRP Ledger, the blockchain network used mainly for cross-border payments, has operated with full transaction transparency since launch. That openness has long been a sticking point for banks and asset managers who cannot publish the details of complex trades or settlement flows on a public ledger, even when they want the speed and finality blockchain settlement offers.

Ripple Builds Confidential Transfers on Zero-Knowledge Proofs

Ripple’s answer is a confidential-transfer feature built on zero-knowledge proofs, a cryptographic method that lets one party prove a statement is true without revealing the underlying data. Applied to XRPL, it would let an institution shield the specifics of a transaction while still allowing the network and regulators to verify it followed the rules, according to a presentation posted on X by an account covering the conference.

Alongside privacy, Ripple is adding transaction batching, which bundles multiple operations into a single all-or-nothing execution. The company is pairing that with formal verification and adversarial testing, engineering practices meant to catch flaws before code reaches production, as it positions XRPL for the kind of multi-step settlement logic institutional trading desks require.

Akinyele Says AI Agents Have Already Moved 11 Million Transactions

Ripple’s Senior Director of Engineering, Ayo Akinyele, told the Seoul audience that AI agents have already driven substantial activity on XRPL, with related transaction volume topping 11 million. That figure predates any of the infrastructure Ripple announced at the conference, suggesting agent-driven usage is forming organically ahead of dedicated tooling.

AI agents have already generated substantial activity on XRPL, with related network volume surpassing 11 million transactions.

Ayo Akinyele, Senior Director of Engineering, Ripple

To support that growth, Ripple is building verifiable identities, spending controls and secure smart wallets that can hold both XRP and stablecoins. The aim is letting software agents transact on their own within limits set by their human operators.

That design mirrors a broader push across crypto infrastructure to let autonomous systems pay for services directly, an area covered in our earlier reporting on AI agent spending tools. Ripple’s three-to-five-second settlement window compares favorably with the days traditional cross-border rails can take, which is the pitch Ripple is making for machine-to-machine commerce specifically.

BIS Paper Already Floated XRPL for Official Statistics

The Seoul announcements, first detailed by CryptoPotato, follow a working paper from the Bank for International Settlements that explored using XRPL to verify official statistics on-chain without disrupting existing data systems. That prior research gives Ripple’s institutional pitch some external validation beyond its own marketing.

None of the upgrades described in Seoul have shipped yet, and Ripple did not give a timeline for mainnet deployment of confidential transfers, batching or the AI agent wallet infrastructure. Questions around how regulators will treat confidential, zero-knowledge-shielded transactions on a public ledger remain open, an issue that echoes debates playing out elsewhere in crypto infrastructure, including the SEC’s proposed crypto custody rule for investment advisers.

The CCS read. We read this as Ripple hedging two bets at once: privacy tooling to court banks wary of public ledgers, and agent infrastructure to capture a transaction category that did not exist when XRPL launched. The 11 million agent transactions already on the network matter more to Ripple’s roadmap than any price action, since they show demand arriving before the infrastructure does.

Ripple has not set a date for mainnet rollout of confidential transfers or the AI agent wallet stack, leaving institutional adopters to wait for a formal deployment timeline before they can test the privacy and batching features against real settlement workflows.

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Three wallets control 93% of $7.2M RLUSD debt backed by FXRP on Morpho
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Three wallets control 93% of $7.2M RLUSD debt backed by FXRP on Morpho

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DeFiCrypto Coin Show News Team·October 1, 2026·3 min read

Three wallet addresses now control 93% of the roughly $7.2 million in RLUSD debt backed by FXRP, a tokenized version of XRP, on the lending platform Morpho, according to on-chain data reviewed as of Oct. 1. For institutional investors watching XRP’s path toward real credit utility, the numbers show the mechanism works but the user base remains almost entirely whales.

  • Three wallets hold 93% of the $7.2 million RLUSD debt against FXRP on Morpho as of Oct. 1.
  • Sentora RLUSD Main vault supplies 8.53 million RLUSD, nearly all available liquidity, yet only 2.03% of its total allocations.
  • XRPL’s proposed native lending amendments remain in security review, a potential alternative to bridging XRP through Flare and Morpho.
  • $7.2M outstanding RLUSD debt posted against FXRP collateral
  • 93% share of that debt held by three wallet addresses
  • 77% Morpho’s liquidation threshold for FXRP-backed RLUSD loans

A Morpho market backed by FXRP, a tokenized representation of XRP, carried about 7.18 million RLUSD in outstanding loans against 10.76 million FXRP in collateral as of Oct. 1, according to on-chain data first reported by cryptoslate.com. FXRP lets XRP holders bridge their tokens to Ethereum and borrow Ripple’s RLUSD stablecoin without selling their underlying XRP exposure, a credit use case the asset did not previously have on that chain.

The market launched in August through Flare. It adds bridge, collateral and redemption dependencies that holders of native XRP never face.

Three Addresses Control 93% of FXRP’s $7.2 Million Debt

The three largest wallets account for 93% of the roughly $7.2 million in outstanding debt, giving a handful of positions outsized control over the market’s total size. A single large repayment could shrink borrowing sharply, while a fresh loan from the same addresses could lift the total without adding any new participants.

On-chain records only identify wallets, not owners, so the real concentration could be tighter still if several addresses trace to one investor.

Funding is just as concentrated as borrowing. Sentora RLUSD Main supplied about 8.53 million RLUSD, nearly all the liquidity available to borrowers. That stake is still only 2.03% of Sentora’s broader vault allocations, and the vault can supply up to 10 million RLUSD under its current cap, leaving room to expand if demand grows beyond its current narrow base.

Morpho’s 77% Threshold Leaves Borrowers Wide Buffers, For Now

Morpho’s protocol allows any external party to liquidate a position once its debt value climbs above 77% of its collateral value, the market’s set Liquidation Loan-To-Value threshold. Based on current debt and collateral, the largest borrower could absorb roughly a 45% drop in the FXRP-to-RLUSD ratio before hitting that line, while the next two largest have about a 38% cushion.

Smaller positions carry less room. One with 121,000 RLUSD of debt against 133,000 FXRP would reach liquidation after roughly a 21% decline.

The market saw some liquidations in September but recorded no realized or unrealized bad debt as of October 1. A sharper price move would be a more meaningful stress test, since a liquidator absorbing one of the largest positions would suddenly hold a sizeable block of FXRP, which it could sell, hold, or redeem back through Flare toward native XRP.

XRPL’s Native Lending Amendments Still Await Validator Approval

Developers are separately preparing to bring lending directly onto the XRP Ledger, removing the need to mint FXRP and bridge it to Ethereum at all. The proposed architecture is currently undergoing security reviews and would require validator approval before activation, offering fixed-term credit underwritten before origination rather than Morpho’s overcollateralized model.

More lending capacity would not automatically mean more buyers of XRP. Existing holders could simply redeploy tokens they already own through the new route, much as tokenized-asset platforms have expanded collateral options without necessarily widening their user base.

Borrower composition will matter as much as loan volume once native lending goes live. A market that grows because the same large holders borrow more would deepen XRP’s utility without proving wider adoption, while new borrowers spreading debt across more addresses would be the stronger signal.

The CCS read. We read this less as a verdict on XRP adoption and more as a working balance sheet for Ripple’s RLUSD. Every dollar borrowed against FXRP is a live RLUSD liability circulating on Ethereum, regardless of how concentrated the borrowers are. That gives Ripple a functioning demand channel for its stablecoin even before XRP’s own holder base broadens.

The next test arrives if XRPL’s native lending amendments clear their security reviews and win validator approval, giving borrowers a route that skips Flare’s bridge entirely. Whether that pulls in new participants or simply lets the same large XRP holders re-lever the same capital through a second venue remains the open question market watchers will track once the amendments reach a vote.

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Evernorth XRP treasury launches on Nasdaq down 37% from deal valuation
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Evernorth XRP treasury launches on Nasdaq down 37% from deal valuation

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EquitiesCrypto Coin Show News Team·October 1, 2026·3 min read

Armada Acquisition Corp. II shareholders cleared Evernorth Holdings’ merger on Wednesday, September 30, 2026, setting up what the companies call the largest publicly traded pure-play XRP treasury vehicle to begin trading on Nasdaq under ticker XRPN on Thursday, October 8, 2026. The listing offers institutional investors regulated equity exposure to roughly 473 million XRP, but that stack already trades 37% below the price used when the deal was signed a year earlier.

  • Armada II shareholders approved the Evernorth merger on September 30, 2026, clearing the final closing condition before Nasdaq trading.
  • Evernorth expects to hold approximately 473 million XRP at closing, about 0.75% of XRP’s 63.1 billion circulating supply.
  • XRP trades at $1.49, down 37% from the $2.37 price used to value Ripple’s contribution when the agreement was signed in October 2025.
  • 473M XRP held by Evernorth, 0.75% of total circulating supply
  • $1.49 current XRP price versus $2.37 signing-date valuation, down 37%
  • $300M gross cash proceeds expected from this week’s closing transaction

Armada Acquisition Corp. II, a Nasdaq-listed special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, a shell firm created solely to merge with a private business and take it public, said shareholders approved its business combination with Evernorth Holdings at an extraordinary general meeting held Wednesday, September 30, 2026, according to a release. Evernorth is a digital asset treasury company, a listed firm whose balance sheet holds a single token, in this case XRP, the fifth-largest cryptocurrency by market value.

The approval clears the way for the deal to close Wednesday, October 7, 2026, with trading on Nasdaq beginning Thursday, October 8, 2026, as first reported by BeInCrypto. Investor support held firm, with 100% of both advanced and delayed funders participating, the companies said.

Evernorth’s 473 Million XRP Values the Deal $414 Million Below Signing

The Business Combination Agreement, signed in October 2025, priced Ripple’s 126.8 million XRP contribution at about $2.37 per coin, according to the prospectus filed with the SEC. XRP now trades at $1.49, a 37% decline from that signing-date mark. At the signing price, the full 473 million XRP stack would be worth about $1.1 billion; at today’s price it is worth roughly $705 million, a gap of about $414 million.

Most of those coins never traded on the open market. Ripple and a related party contributed about 388 million XRP directly in exchange for shares, the prospectus shows.

The combination is expected to raise about $300 million in gross cash proceeds before expenses, according to the release.

Birla Calls XRPN a ‘Regulated’ Way to Hold XRP Exposure

Evernorth founder and CEO Asheesh Birla framed the listing as a structural shift for XRP holders in the release.

Going public will offer investors a regulated, transparent way to own XRP exposure and participate in the growth of the blockchain economy.

Asheesh Birla, Founder and CEO, Evernorth

The company says it intends to grow XRP per share over time through yield strategies, ecosystem participation and capital markets activity, a playbook that echoes how Strategy built its balance sheet around bitcoin, detailed in its 8-K disclosing a $5.02 billion reserve. Tom Lee’s Bitmine has pursued a similar model with ether, recently declaring a crypto bull market ‘underway’ after adding to its holdings.

XRPN Trades a Token Bet for a Corporate Balance Sheet

For institutional allocators barred from holding spot crypto directly, XRPN offers a familiar compliance route: a Nasdaq-listed share wrapping token exposure. Unlike an exchange-traded fund, Evernorth’s share price will track the corporate vehicle’s book value, cash position and strategy execution rather than a transparent net asset value formula.

The prospectus leaves open how reductions imposed on “Contributor Related Parties,” the entities including Ripple that contributed coins rather than cash, will affect per-share XRP backing once trading begins. It also does not specify what share of the $300 million in gross proceeds will fund additional XRP purchases versus covering transaction costs, leaving that detail for post-closing filings.

The CCS read. The real test is not whether XRP recovers to $2.37, but whether XRPN trades above or below the net value of its 473 million coins once Nasdaq opens. A persistent discount would tell investors they see less upside in the corporate wrapper than in holding the token outright, pressuring Evernorth to lean harder on its promised yield and capital markets strategy to close that gap.

Evernorth confirmed the timeline in a <a href="https://x.com/evernorthxrp/status/2

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Ripple and Brazil’s CSD BR launch live tokenization of investment funds on XRP Ledger
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Ripple and Brazil’s CSD BR launch live tokenization of investment funds on XRP Ledger

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Editor's ChoiceCrypto Coin Show News Team·September 30, 2026·4 min read

Ripple and Brazil’s central securities depository have launched live blockchain recording of investment fund shares on the XRP Ledger, moving asset tokenization from pilots to regulated production in a $22 trillion market. The model preserves CSD BR’s authority over asset issuance and settlement while adding a permissioned audit layer, establishing a template for integrating distributed ledgers into traditional financial infrastructure without replacing existing systems.

  • CSD BR will tokenize BTG Pactual investment fund shares using the XRP Ledger’s Multi-Purpose Token standard as a mirroring layer for real-time record verification and audit.
  • The permissioned system restricts access to corporate and banking clients in Brazil subject to Know Your Customer and anti-money laundering compliance, with CSD BR retaining full governance control including asset freezing and transaction reversal powers.
  • Future phases target Real Estate Receivables Certificates and Agribusiness Receivables Certificates, with potential expansion to native asset issuance and other international markets under advanced confidentiality mechanisms still in development.
  • BRL 22 trillion Total registered assets under CSD BR management across Brazil’s financial market.
  • First phase Live production launch replaces pilot and proof-of-concept testing in regulated market environment.
  • BTG Pactual shares Initial asset class for tokenization via Multi-Purpose Token standard on XRP Ledger.

CSD BR, Brazil’s central securities depository, said it has begun recording and auditing investment fund shares on the XRP Ledger in a live operating environment. According to Ripple’s announcement, BTG Pactual fund shares deposited at CSD BR have been tokenized using the Multi-Purpose Token standard and mirrored on the XRP Ledger, allowing authorized participants to verify asset records in near real time without altering existing settlement or issuance processes.

The architecture preserves regulatory control and legal certainty while introducing transparency gains from distributed ledger technology.

CSD BR retains full authority over asset issuance, participant authorization, and critical governance functions including the ability to freeze individual assets and reverse transactions on judicial or regulatory order.

Ripple’s custody infrastructure integrates with the XRP Ledger’s native capabilities to operate the system on a permissioned basis, limiting access to eligible corporate and banking clients subject to Know Your Customer and anti-money laundering procedures.

The official record of all assets and settlements remains on CSD BR’s traditional systems; the blockchain functions as a complementary layer for querying, validating and auditing records in real time rather than a replacement for existing infrastructure.

CSD BR’s record mirroring separates asset ownership from blockchain validation without displacing settlement authority

The partnership’s first phase uses a limited scope to test blockchain integration in production without altering operational workflows. BTG Pactual investment fund shares are now tokenized on the XRP Ledger as a duplicate record of holdings already registered on CSD BR’s systems.

Authorized participants can verify the consistency of records on-chain in near real time, improving transparency and traceability while investors, issuers and settlement participants continue to operate through existing processes unchanged.

This model addresses a core tension in regulated asset tokenization: how to introduce blockchain’s transparency and automation gains without displacing entrenched legal frameworks or requiring new regulatory approvals. CSD BR operates infrastructure handling $22 trillion in registered assets.

By using the blockchain as an audit layer rather than a transaction layer, the partnership avoids the operational risk and regulatory friction that would accompany wholesale replacement of existing settlement systems, while still demonstrating blockchain’s ability to support real-time verification and record consistency in a production environment.

Future phases plan native issuance and cross-border settlement with confidentiality upgrades still undefined

Once the mirroring phase is validated, CSD BR and Ripple plan to expand blockchain use to native asset issuance and trading among authorized participants. Assets under consideration include Real Estate Receivables Certificates and Agribusiness Receivables Certificates, both significant segments of Brazil’s fixed-income market.

The platform’s evolution will include advanced confidentiality mechanisms to meet financial market privacy requirements, and the model was designed to allow potential expansion to new asset classes, new participants and other international markets.

The announcement does not specify the technical or governance framework for these confidentiality upgrades or the timeline for moving beyond the current mirroring phase.

The partnership establishes a regulatory precedent for integrating public blockchains into traditional market infrastructure without requiring formal new approvals, working within Brazil’s existing legal framework. However, scaling to native issuance and cross-border settlement introduces complexity around asset custody, collateral management, and international legal recognition that the current design does not address. Ripple’s presence in tokenized financial asset infrastructure through custody and settlement solutions positions the firm to support these phases, but the announcement leaves the operational and technical specifications for native asset issuance, confidentiality mechanisms, and international expansion undefined pending further development and testing.

The CCS read. We see this as validation that permissioned blockchain layers can integrate into regulated settlement without destabilizing legacy infrastructure. For Ripple, the deal demonstrates enterprise blockchain deployment at scale in a major emerging market and a foundation for expanding asset tokenization across Latin America’s largest economy. The open question is whether the partnership moves to native issuance (where blockchain becomes the source of record, not an audit layer) and whether confidentiality and cross-border features become operational realities or remain aspirational.

CSD BR and Ripple will validate the record-mirroring phase before expanding to native asset issuance and trading; the timeline and specifications for advanced confidentiality mechanisms required for future phases have not been disclosed, and the model’s application to Real Estate Receivables Certificates and Agribusiness Receivables Certificates remains pending technical and governance design work.

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Evernorth shareholders vote Wednesday on Nasdaq merger for XRP treasury listing
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Evernorth shareholders vote Wednesday on Nasdaq merger for XRP treasury listing

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Editor's ChoiceCrypto Coin Show News Team·September 28, 2026·3 min read

Shareholders of Armada Acquisition Corp. II vote Wednesday, September 30, 2026, on a business combination that would take Evernorth public on Nasdaq under the ticker XRPN, the last hurdle before the XRP treasury company can begin trading. Approval would give institutional investors direct equity access to roughly 473 million XRP, one of the largest identifiable corporate holdings of the token.

  • Armada II shareholders vote Wednesday (September 30) on the Evernorth merger required for the XRPN Nasdaq listing.
  • Evernorth holds approximately 473 million XRP and aims to increase the XRP represented per share through yield and infrastructure strategies.
  • A $30 million convertible note raise activates only after the merger closes, adding to more than $1 billion already secured from Ripple, SBI Holdings, Pantera Capital, Kraken and Arrington Capital.
  • 473M XRP held by Evernorth, among the largest known corporate treasuries of the token
  • $30M convertible note raise that only activates once the merger is approved
  • $1B+ gross proceeds already raised from Ripple, SBI Holdings, Pantera, Kraken and Arrington Capital

Shareholders of Armada Acquisition Corp. II gather Wednesday (September 30) to vote on the business combination that would take Evernorth public on Nasdaq under the ticker XRPN. Approval clears the last shareholder hurdle standing between the XRP-focused treasury firm and a listing that has drawn attention from Ripple-aligned commentators, according to a report by CryptoPotato. A yes vote would make Evernorth the first publicly traded XRP holding company in the US, giving institutions equity exposure to a treasury built specifically around Ripple’s cross-border token.

Evernorth Holds 473 Million XRP, One of the Largest Corporate Stockpiles

Evernorth’s roughly 473 million XRP places it among the largest identifiable corporate holders of the token, a scale that distinguishes it from typical treasury vehicles tracking a single asset passively.

The company intends to actively deploy its holdings through yield strategies, infrastructure participation and capital-markets activity, with the stated goal of increasing the XRP represented by each share over time.

Commentator BankXRP recently described Evernorth as “one vote away” from bringing an XRP-focused treasury company to Nasdaq. The framing has circulated widely among Ripple-aligned traders watching the September 30 vote as the final procedural step before XRPN begins trading.

$30 Million Note Sale Only Activates Once the Merger Clears

Evernorth has agreed to raise an additional $30 million through 4% convertible senior PIK notes due in 2031, but the financing is contingent: it becomes available only once the Armada II combination is approved and finalized. The proceeds are earmarked for additional XRP purchases and other activity across the Ripple ecosystem.

That $30 million sits on top of more than $1 billion in gross proceeds Evernorth had already secured from investors including Ripple, SBI Holdings, Pantera Capital, Kraken and Arrington Capital, making the new note a small add-on rather than a core funding round. The structure ties fresh capital directly to Wednesday’s shareholder outcome, leaving no path to the funds without approval.

Vincent Van Code Frames XRPN as a Custody Shortcut for Institutions

Commentator Vincent Van Code argued in a post on X on September 25 that direct XRP ownership remains operationally difficult for larger institutions that must manage custody, compliance, audits, insurance and internal controls.

A few years back, SEC sued Ripple claiming XRP was a security. Today, @evernorthxrp is seeking approval for its public listing as the first XRP holding company. And people are still not bullish for crypto. It’s no wonder 90% of people live pay check to pay check.

Vincent Van Code, crypto commentator

Evernorth’s pitch is that a Nasdaq-listed vehicle sidesteps that overhead entirely.

The CCS read. A successful vote turns Evernorth into a proxy for XRP demand that Nasdaq market-makers and ETF-adjacent flows can price daily, something the token itself cannot offer without a spot fund. Watch whether Ripple’s other backers, SBI and Kraken among them, use XRPN as a template for listing similar single-asset treasury vehicles once this deal sets the precedent.

The outcome hinges entirely on Wednesday’s shareholder vote; if approved, Evernorth expects to close the combination and begin trading as XRPN shortly after, triggering both the $30 million note sale and the start of its active deployment strategy. Ripple-aligned investors are now watching whether the vote passes cleanly or draws last-minute opposition before shares change hands.

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Ripple integrates RLUSD into BlackRock and VanEck tokenized treasury funds
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Ripple integrates RLUSD into BlackRock and VanEck tokenized treasury funds

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Editor's ChoiceCrypto Coin Show News Team·September 26, 2026·3 min read

Ripple’s integration of its RLUSD stablecoin into BlackRock’s BUIDL and VanEck’s VBILL tokenized treasury funds opens a direct institutional on-ramp for two of the largest tokenized financial products on public blockchains. Large XRP holders have accumulated 470 million tokens in five days, signaling confidence in the protocol’s expanding utility.

  • Ripple and Securitize launched a smart contract enabling instant RLUSD swaps for BUIDL and VBILL tokenized treasuries, available 24/7 on-chain.
  • XRP whales purchased over 470 million tokens valued at approximately $724 million in five days following the announcement.
  • The integration marks the first official RLUSD deployment on Securitize’s platform, with both parties planning additional collaborations and XRP Ledger expansion.
  • 470M XRP tokens accumulated by whales in five days, versus 1.5 billion in the preceding 96 hours
  • $724M value of whale purchases during the five-day period at current XRP pricing
  • $1.55 XRP price as of announcement date, versus $1.65 peak and $1.50 trough days prior

Ripple and Securitize announced a new smart contract that allows holders of BlackRock’s BUIDL and VanEck’s VBILL tokenized short-term treasury funds to exchange their shares directly for Ripple’s RLUSD stablecoin, according to the companies’ joint announcement. The settlement occurs on-chain around the clock, eliminating traditional market hours constraints and opening new pathways for institutional treasurers to move between yield-bearing tokenized assets and stablecoin liquidity. Both BUIDL and VBILL are the first public-blockchain tokenized treasury products launched by the two major financial institutions, making this integration a significant step toward institutional adoption of decentralized finance infrastructure.

Securitize Platform Gets First RLUSD Integration

The smart contract enables instantaneous swaps between the two BlackRock and VanEck products and RLUSD without intermediaries, allowing institutional investors to preserve exposure to on-chain yield while moving capital between strategies. Ripple’s Jack McDonald, senior vice president of stablecoins, positioned the integration as foundational to the company’s institutional strategy.

RLUSD offers “regulatory clarity, stability, and real utility,” McDonald stated, and partnerships with “trusted platforms like Securitize are key to unlocking new liquidity and enterprise-grade use cases.” This is the first official RLUSD listing on Securitize’s tokenization platform, though both parties signaled that additional collaborations will follow.

Securitize also committed to integrating the XRP Ledger directly into its infrastructure to expand ecosystem access and utility for tokenized products more broadly.

Whale Accumulation Accelerates Following Announcement

Large XRP holders acquired more than 470 million tokens in the five days ending September 25, 2026, worth approximately $724 million at prevailing prices, according to analyst Ali Martinez.

This buying spree follows an earlier surge in which the same cohort of whales purchased over 1.5 billion XRP in 96 hours the previous week, suggesting sustained institutional confidence in the token’s trajectory. The timing closely correlates with Ripple’s Securitize announcement.

XRP itself experienced sharp volatility during this period, climbing to $1.65 before falling below $1.50, then recovering to $1.56 on Thursday, September 24. As of the announcement date, the token traded near $1.55.

Technical Setup Points Toward $2.00 Resistance

Martinez identified an inverse head-and-shoulders pattern on XRP’s daily chart, with the right shoulder completing near current price levels.

The analyst suggested that a breakout above the $1.60 resistance level could target $2.00, though he cautioned that whales accumulating at these levels do not guarantee directional outcomes. Institutional buying interest and fundamental catalysts like the Securitize integration improve the odds of sustained momentum, but charting patterns offer no certainty.

The pattern’s significance lies in its scale and the correlation between whale activity and technical alignment, a dynamic that institutional investors watch as an early indicator of potential breakout conviction.

The CCS read. We see the Securitize deal as validation of RLUSD’s path toward institutional settlement infrastructure rather than a price catalyst alone. Whale accumulation signals conviction in Ripple’s stablecoin strategy, but it does not confirm whether RLUSD will capture meaningful market share against USDC, USDT, or the emerging tokenized treasury ecosystem. The integration is bullish for XRP Ledger adoption among regulated entities, not necessarily for XRP price alone.

Watch for Securitize’s integration timeline with the XRP Ledger and any additional institutional partnerships Ripple announces with major asset managers or custodians. The key test will be whether BUIDL and VBILL holders actually deploy RLUSD at scale or treat the smart contract as a technical option without material trading volume. A confirmed breakout above $1.60 on elevated institutional volume, alongside public disclosures of significant RLUSD settlement flows, would validate the bull case; continued whale buying without corresponding transactional utility would signal speculative positioning ahead of a drawdown.

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FXRP marks one year after initial 5 million tokens sold out in four hours
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FXRP marks one year after initial 5 million tokens sold out in four hours

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BlockchainCrypto Coin Show News Team·September 24, 2026·3 min read

FXRP, the token that lets XRP function inside Flare’s DeFi ecosystem, marked its first anniversary on Thursday (September 24, 2026), a year after its initial 5 million-token mint cap sold out in roughly four hours. The milestone matters to institutional holders because it marks the maturing of a non-custodial bridge that now lets XRP back lending, collateral and yield products without leaving the XRP Ledger’s security model.

  • FXRP launched September 24, 2025, as the first asset issued through Flare’s FAssets system.
  • Its initial 5 million-token minting limit was exhausted within about four hours of going live.
  • An August 2026 Morpho market built with Sentora lets FXRP serve as collateral to borrow RLUSD on Ethereum.
  • 5M initial FXRP mint cap, filled at launch in hours
  • 4 hrs time needed to exhaust that first mint limit
  • 3% new annual FLR issuance rate, down from 5% under FIP.16

FXRP represents XRP as an ERC-20 token on Flare, backed by XRP on the XRP Ledger through the FAssets system. Flare’s oracle protocol, the FDC, verifies activity on the XRPL. The token’s launch-day demand, filling a 5 million-unit cap in about four hours, set the pace for a year of protocol building around it.

FXRP’s 5 Million Mint Cap Filled in Four Hours at Launch

The rush at launch reflected pent-up appetite for putting XRP to work onchain without wrapping it through a centralized custodian. That demand shaped the year that followed.

Kinetic introduced lending markets denominated in FXRP, while SparkDEX, BlazeSwap and Enosys built out liquidity venues for trading the asset. Firelight used FXRP to construct onchain cover, converting staked XRP into capital meant to back losses from exploits, oracle failures or bad debt.

Spectra added fixed-rate and yield-trading markets, Upshift’s earnXRP and Clearstar layered in vault-based strategies, and Enosys separately built a route for using FXRP as collateral for debt.

Morpho Market With Sentora Turns FXRP Into RLUSD Collateral

The most consequential expansion came in August 2026, when a Morpho market built with Sentora let holders supply FXRP as collateral to borrow RLUSD on Ethereum. That pushes FXRP past liquidity and yield use cases into credit markets.

FXRP also expanded onto Ethereum and Base during 2026, broadening the venues where the asset can be borrowed against or traded. FAssets v1.3, released in May 2026, added destination-tag minting, a feature Flare designed to simplify integrations for exchanges and custodians handling XRP deposits at scale.

Flare Plans Confidential Compute Rollout Through Songbird

Flare also rewrote its own token economics this year. Proposal FIP.16 cut annual FLR issuance from 5% to 3% and lowered the issuance ceiling from 5 billion to 3 billion FLR, tightening supply growth for the network’s native token.

Access from the XRP Ledger itself improved too. Flare Smart Accounts, integrated with the Xaman wallet in February 2026 through earnXRP, now let some users complete supported processes with a single XRPL signature.

In May 2026, Flare extended that access model to hardware-wallet users through a partnership with D’CENT Wallet, giving them entry to the Monarq XRP Yield Vault and earnXRP via two XRP Ledger signatures without holding a separate gas token. The integration folded into the newly formed XRP Alliance alongside Doppler, Banxa and Squid.

Flare is now building Flare Confidential Compute and Protocol Managed Wallets, with an initial deployment path planned through its Songbird network, a system the company says is designed to support assets beyond XRP.

The CCS read. FXRP’s move into Morpho as RLUSD collateral matters more than the anniversary itself: it gives XRP holders a credit line against a stablecoin without selling the underlying asset, the kind of balance-sheet tool institutional treasuries look for before adding exposure. Watch whether custodians adopt the destination-tag minting feature, since that is what would let regulated XRP holders reach these markets at scale.

Flare has not set a public date for the Songbird deployment of Confidential Compute and Protocol Managed Wallets, leaving open when, and to which assets beyond FXRP, that infrastructure will extend.

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CME leveraged funds slash 46.3M XRP shorts as Coinbase shorts remain flat
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CME leveraged funds slash 46.3M XRP shorts as Coinbase shorts remain flat

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InstitutionalCrypto Coin Show News Team·September 23, 2026·3 min read

XRP’s $7.4 billion trading day on Tuesday, September 22, 2026 followed a week in which leveraged funds slashed their CME short position far more aggressively than their Coinbase Derivatives short position, according to CFTC data that predates the price move. The divergence across regulated futures venues points institutional desk watchers toward a concentrated, venue-specific positioning reset rather than a market-wide short squeeze.

  • XRP hit an intraday high of $1.60 on Sept. 22, 2026, with roughly $7.4 billion in reported volume.
  • CME leveraged funds cut their net short by 46.3 million XRP equivalent between the Sept. 8 and Sept. 15 CFTC reports.
  • Coinbase Derivatives’ three reported XRP products combined fell just 2.452 million XRP, leaving leveraged funds net short about 141.6 million XRP.
  • $7.4B XRP reported trading volume on Sept. 22, its rally day
  • 46.3M XRP-equivalent net-short cut by CME leveraged funds in one week
  • 141.6M XRP still held net short on Coinbase, nearly four times CME’s

XRP touched $1.60 intraday on Tuesday, September 22, 2026, on roughly $7.4 billion in reported volume, a rally that traders quickly attributed to a short squeeze on CME futures. But the CFTC’s Sept. 15 snapshot of the Commitments of Traders report, examined in a report by CryptoSlate, shows the underlying positioning shift happened three trading days earlier and looked nothing alike across exchanges.

CME’s reduction dwarfed what happened on Coinbase. That gap is the central fact institutional traders need to reconcile before crediting a single squeeze narrative.

CME Leveraged Funds Cut Net Short by 46.3 Million XRP in a Week

On CME, where the standard contract represents 50,000 XRP, leveraged funds held 1,585 long contracts against 2,304 short on Sept. 15, a net short of 719 contracts equal to 35.95 million XRP. A week earlier the same category reported 1,645 contracts net short, or 82.25 million XRP, meaning the net short fell by 926 contracts, or 46.3 million XRP, in a single reporting period.

The move came from both sides of the book. Longs rose 305 contracts while shorts fell 621, and total open interest declined 509 contracts, equal to 25.45 million XRP, over the same week.

CME lists Micro XRP as a separate product not captured in this four-contract comparison, so activity in that market remains unaccounted for.

Coinbase’s Combined Net Short Barely Moves, Staying Near 141.6 Million XRP

Coinbase Derivatives reports three separate XRP contracts to the CFTC: a standard future at 10,000 XRP per contract, and two 500-XRP contracts labeled Nano XRP and Nano XRP Perpetual Style. Combined, leveraged funds’ net short fell from 144.07 million XRP on Sept. 8 to 141.6145 million on Sept. 15, a drop of 2.452 million, about five percent the size of CME’s reduction.

The standard contract drove most of that improvement, falling 3.65 million XRP, while the Nano contract added another 92,000 XRP reduction. The Nano XRP Perpetual Style moved the opposite direction: it is structured as a regulated, five-year cash-settled future using funding-rate adjustments rather than the unexpiring swaps common on offshore exchanges, and leveraged funds there grew 1.29 million XRP more net short, offsetting part of the gain elsewhere.

Public CFTC data cannot identify why any single fund added or trimmed exposure. A short position can express a bearish view, hedge spot holdings, or sit as one leg of a basis trade against the perpetual-style contract, and reducing it can reflect any of those motives running in reverse.

The agency’s rules also exclude a market from the report entirely unless at least 20 traders hold reportable positions, so a thin or missing product elsewhere leaves related flow invisible in this comparison.

CFTC’s Sept. 25 Report Is the First to Cover the Actual Rally

The positions in this snapshot were observed Tuesday, Sept. 15, and released Friday, Sept. 18, three full trading days before XRP’s Sept. 22 high. That timing rules out the reported short-covering as a direct reaction to the day’s rally itself. The CFTC’s tentative 2026 release schedule lists Sept. 25 for the report normally covering positions as of Sept. 22, the first snapshot that will actually overlap with the price move.

If that release shows Coinbase’s combined net short falling materially alongside rising open interest, it would support a broader directional turn beyond CME. If Coinbase stays heavily short while CME remains lightly short, the data continues to favor a venue-specific reset.

The CCS read. We read this as a caution against treating any single-venue CFTC print as a market signal for XRP. Desks running cross-venue basis or hedging books on Coinbase and CME should expect reporting lag and product fragmentation to keep producing headline-friendly but partial pictures until aggregated flow data catches up with the rally itself.

The Sept. 25 report, covering positions as of Sept. 22, is the first data point that can actually speak to the rally rather than precede it. Whether Coinbase’s 141.6 million XRP net short narrows in that release, or CME’s already-lighter short position reverses, will determine whether this stays a venue-specific story or becomes a market-wide one.

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