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Founder and CEO of Evernorth, the XRP-focused treasury company listed on Nasdaq as XRPN after merging with Armada Acquisition Corp. II.
Evernorth, listed on Nasdaq as XRPN, held about 473 million XRP and raised about $300 million in cash when its Armada merger closed. The Q4 deployment is the first test of whether the treasury earns anything beyond price exposure.
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Evernorth, the Nasdaq-listed XRP treasury company, will deploy portions of its 473 million XRP through Ripple, Coinbase, Kraken and BitGo from Q4 2026. Its yardstick is XRP per share, so the yield on deployed tokens has to outrun any losses from counterparties.
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Evernorth has put former Coinbase Asset Management co-CIO Hugo Jeandesboz in charge of the roughly 473 million XRP it held at closing. The stated goal is more XRP per share, a ratio that moves with the share count as well as the token count.
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Evernorth named Coinbase veteran Hugo Jeandesboz chief investment officer as XRPN began trading on Nasdaq with about 473 million XRP. His mandate is yield on a stack Cointelegraph prices at $657 million and Cryptobriefing at $672 million.
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Evernorth closed its SPAC merger with about 473 million XRP and $300 million in gross cash ahead of a planned October 12 Nasdaq debut as XRPN. Only about 84 million of the tokens were bought for cash, crypto.news reported from proxy figures, so fresh XRP demand depends on how the company spends its money.
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Evernorth pushed its merger close to Oct. 9 and the Nasdaq debut of XRPN, set to hold about 473 million XRP, to Oct. 12. Armada II's public trust supplies about a sixth of the deal's cash; private placements and notes supply the rest.
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Armada Acquisition Corp. II shareholders approved the Evernorth merger, so a 473 million XRP treasury lists on Nasdaq as XRPN on Oct. 8. Only about $300 million of the $1 billion-plus raised is cash, and investors contributed XRP directly for much of the rest.
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Effectiveness clears a disclosure hurdle, and the harder question is whether investors still pay above book for a company whose main job is holding one token, when Galaxy says that premium has already gone.
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