Ripple Assembles The XRP ‘Wall Street Kit’<\/h2>\n
\u201cInstitutions juggling billions in 401(k)s, pensions, hedge funds, banks & governments? Self-custody was always insane\u2014audit hell, compliance nightmares, risk officers saying \u2018no way,\u2019\u201d he wrote. \u201cThat changed in 2025\u20132026. Ripple built the full-stack bridge: regulated, scalable, bank-trusted infrastructure so big money can finally hold & use XRP + RLUSD without the chaos.\u201d<\/p>\n
Van Code\u2019s core contention is that the crypto-native custody debate misses the institutional reality: risk committees, auditors, and compliance functions require regulated custody, reporting, and controls that can plug into existing workflows. He argues Ripple\u2019s recent buildout amounts to a \u201cWall Street kit\u201d that addresses those constraints end-to-end, spanning payments rails, corporate treasury tooling, prime brokerage services, and bank-grade custody.<\/p>\n
While the post is advocacy rather than a formal Ripple announcement, it reflects a view increasingly common among XRP supporters: that productized rails and regulated wrappers matter as much as market narratives when large allocators consider adding exposure or utility.<\/p>\n
Van Code pointed to Ripple Payments as the transaction layer, describing it as \u201cISO 20022-compliant, real-time cross-border rails on XRPL\u2014already moving billions for global banks.\u201d He then tied institutional adoption to what he portrayed as adjacent infrastructure designed to make XRP and Ripple\u2019s RLUSD workable inside corporate and financial-institution operations.<\/p>\n
Among the pieces he highlighted was GTreasury, which Ripple acquired for $1 billion, characterizing it as an enterprise treasury management platform enabling corporations to manage \u201cfiat + digital liquidity in real-time.\u201d He also cited Ripple Prime, described as being \u201cpowered by Hidden Road acquisition for $1.25B\u201d, as a prime brokerage stack offering \u201cclearing, financing & OTC trading\u2014including XRP & RLUSD\u2014with seamless XRPL settlement for faster, cheaper post-trade ops.\u201d<\/p>\n
For custody, he argued Ripple has converged on a bank-facing offering through a series of deals and integrations. \u201cRipple Custody (bolstered by Palisade acquisition + prior Standard Custody\/Metaco) \u2192 Bank-grade, regulated storage with MPC security, multi-chain support & zero-trust architecture,\u201d he wrote, adding that it is \u201cauditable, insured, scalable for billions.\u201d Van Code also claimed \u201cRLUSD reserves [are] custodied by BNY Mellon for ultimate trust.\u201d<\/p>\n
The post\u2019s conclusion was blunt about expected impact. \u201cBottom line: Excuses erased. Compliance baked in. Custody risk? Solved,\u201d Van Code wrote. \u201cInstitutions aren’t just watching\u2014they’re quietly stacking & building on XRPL. 2026 is the year XRP shifts from \u2018spec play\u2019 to core financial infrastructure. Billions incoming.\u201d
\nIf that thesis holds, the next signal for markets will not be rhetoric but observable integration: whether these components translate into sustained institutional flows, deeper liquidity venues, and production use of XRP and RLUSD, ultimately showing up in price discovery.<\/p>\n
At press time, XRP traded at $2.15.<\/p>\n
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Software engineer and AI founder Vincent Van Code (@vincent_vancode) is arguing that institutional barriers to holding and using XRP have largely shifted from \u201cmarket structure\u201d to \u201cplumbing,\u201d claiming Ripple has spent 2025\u20132026 assembling an institutional stack for custody, treasury, and prime brokerage that makes large-scale participation operationally viable. In a post on X on Wednesday,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[44,45,40,46,47],"class_list":["post-9500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-xrp-news","tag-ripple","tag-ripple-news","tag-xrp","tag-xrp-news","tag-xrp-price"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinsvalue.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinsvalue.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinsvalue.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinsvalue.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinsvalue.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coinsvalue.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinsvalue.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinsvalue.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinsvalue.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinsvalue.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}