XRP Ledger Pilot Links Treasury Redemption to Bank Settlement

Editorial portrait of a banking professional at a desk with a monitor showing tokenized U.S. Treasuries on the XRP Ledger.

The XRP Ledger processed the asset leg of a pilot tokenized U.S. Treasury redemption in under five seconds, triggering a coordinated fiat settlement through Mastercard’s Multi-Token Network and J.P. Morgan’s Kinexys. The test connected public-ledger finality with correspondent banking settlement, showing how institutional tokenized assets could move through a near-real-time, end-to-end redemption flow.

BlackRock, Ondo, and BUIDL dominate RWAs: Does this signal the end of “decentralized” crypto or its inevitable maturation?

Finance executive reviews ERP ledger on screen labeled USDb, a Bitcoin-backed enterprise payments stablecoin.

The RWA boom is forcing crypto to confront a contradiction it avoided during easier cycles: real-world assets need real-world gatekeepers. RWA.xyz shows $26.71 billion in distributed asset value across tokenized real-world assets, while tokenized U.S. Treasuries alone sit near $10 billion with 59,004 holders. BlackRock’s BUIDL, issued through Securitize, and Ondo’s Treasury-linked products have become […]