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Ripple Labs is a blockchain payments company that created the XRP cryptocurrency and provides cross-border settlement infrastructure for banks.
Cross River Bank will let fintech clients send Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin through the same connection as ACH and wires, in a limited number of US states. The speed claims come from the companies' own release.
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Ripple Prime opened 24/7 perpetual swaps on more than 100 traditional markets to institutions on October 15, with Virtu among its clients. The swaps reference perpetual futures that Trade.xyz lists on Hyperliquid, so the weekend price they track is set on a crypto venue.
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Weekly volume in decentralized RWA perpetual futures reached $39.8 billion in October, up from $22.8 billion in late August, Cryptopolitan reported. The report has Variational's share rising from 10.6% to 32%, yet TradeXYZ's $12.73 billion is also 32% of that total.
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OKX marketing chief Haider Rafique plans to leave by the end of December, Bloomberg reported on October 15, citing people familiar with the matter. One departure is thin evidence of turnover at a company valued at $25 billion after ICE's investment.
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XRP trades near $1.33, 62.5% below its January 2018 peak of $3.55, while bitcoin and ether stay far above their 2017 highs. Supply growth of 63% explains a drop to about $2.18, so demand-side factors have to account for the remaining fall.
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Ripple and DriveWealth will settle in RLUSD on the XRP Ledger across a brokerage network of more than 100 partners, starting in Europe. The companies did not disclose volumes or fees, so the only size on offer is the partner count.
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DriveWealth, whose network powers investing for more than 100 partners, is integrating Ripple's RLUSD for European settlement, with the US planned. The announcement says partners could gain flexibility to fund outside bank-transfer hours. It does not say how many will use it.
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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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Kraken parent Payward is buying Saldo Finance, owner of a Lithuanian bank, at an undisclosed price, with closing expected in 2027. Closing needs regulatory approvals, and one deal is thin evidence that exchanges now buy banks.
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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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Standard Chartered opened institutional custody of Ripple's RLUSD on the XRP Ledger on Oct. 12, a token with about $2.4 billion in circulation. The plan to post it as LMAX collateral has no launch date and still needs testing, documentation and approvals.
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XRPL Commons will let more than 400 registered builders test XRP Ledger lending amendments XLS-65 and XLS-66 on Oct. 24-25, with no mainnet date set. Validators have yet to approve either, so any lending exposure on the ledger remains prospective.
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Ripple has signed Meritz Securities to explore custody and tokenization, its fourth Korean partner of 2026 and the first securities firm. The work starts inside Meritz's existing permissions and has no launch date.
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Stripe-owned Privy is bringing its wallets to the XRP Ledger, where Ripple says agents have made 13 million payments. Ripple is the only source for that count. The announcements leave developers free to settle in XRP or in other assets.
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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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Koscom has signed memorandums with 13 securities firms on a shared tokenization platform ahead of Korea's Feb. 4, 2027 rules. Four brokers named in the same report are working through their own builds or outside partners, so the case for shared infrastructure is unproven.
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Ripple paid Veria Labs the $250,000 program maximum for an XRP Ledger bug that could have minted about 18.45 trillion XRP. ZachXBT called the sum too small and warned it could tempt the next finder to exploit instead of report.
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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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XRP Ledger developers disclosed an integer-overflow bug in xrpld 3.4.0 and earlier that could have minted XRP beyond its 100-billion supply cap. The patch skipped the validator vote, so the cap's defence rested on one team and on node operators upgrading fast.
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