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Institutional DeFi on the XRP Ledger: What's Live and What's Next
March 01, 2025
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Institutional adoption of blockchain-powered finance has accelerated in the past year, with tokenized real-world assets (RWAs)stablecoins, and decentralized liquidity markets as major drivers of growth. Yet, for this transformation to scale, financial institutions need a robust, compliance-focused, and interoperable blockchain infrastructure—one that can support digital assets, seamless cross-border transactions, and institutional-grade decentralized finance (DeFi).

The XRP Ledger (XRPL) meets this challenge head-on, building on its core strengths—a native DEX, low fees, rapid settlement times, and a compliance-friendly architecture—to create an advanced institutional DeFi ecosystem. Several key capabilities are live, with others on their way, which will support the XRPL as a safe, secure, and scalable layer 1 for financial institutions looking to use blockchain in a regulated environment.

What’s Live on the XRP Ledger: Expanding Institutional DeFi Infrastructure

XRPL has made significant strides in enhancing liquidity, improving price transparency, and introducing new compliance tools to better cater to the needs of institutions.

While this blog highlights several of the newest features live on the XRP Ledger, they build upon core functionalities that have been supporting financial use cases for over a decade. The move towards a more automated and integrated system within XRPL’s native Decentralized Exchange (DEX) is designed to facilitate greater institutional participation by ensuring constant liquidity and minimal slippage. XRPL’s Central Limit Order Book (CLOB) has powered decentralized trading since its inception, providing efficient price discovery and deep liquidity across assets

Meanwhile, Payments—one of the ledger’s first native capabilities—continues to facilitate fast, low-cost global transactions, with additional payment primitives like Payment Channels for scalable micropayments, Checks for deferred settlement, and Escrows for conditional transfers. These are just some of the long-standing features that, combined with recent innovations, make XRPL one of the most mature and robust blockchains for institutional DeFi. With over 2.8B transactions having been processed to date, XRPL continues moving from strength to strength.

XRPL’s Automated Market Maker (AMM), built on the XLS-30 standard, introduces protocol-level liquidity for tokenized assets, stablecoins, and real-world assets (RWAs). Unlike traditional AMMs, XRPL’s version integrates directly with its native order book (CLOB)-based DEX, and enables price optimization to determine whether swapping within a liquidity pool, through the order book, or both provides the best rate and executes accordingly. Its continuous auction mechanism mitigates impermanent loss, making liquidity provision more appealing to institutional players. 

Thanks to AMM Clawback, all key tokens, including Ripple USD (RLUSD), can fully leverage the network’s AMM liquidity pools. By enabling issuers to “claw back” funds from a trustline in specific circumstances—like lost account access or malicious activity—this amendment satisfies crucial regulatory requirements for fraud prevention and transaction reversals. Clawback remains an optional feature, intentionally disabled by default that can only be enabled for issued assets and never for XRP.

Key Use Cases

  • Institutional Liquidity Provisioning – Funds and market makers can deploy capital in AMM pools to generate yield.

  • Tokenized RWA Trading – Previously illiquid assets, such as tokenized treasuries and real estate, can be efficiently traded.

  • Arbitrage & Cross-Chain Swaps – Ensuring pricing accuracy across different DeFi ecosystems.

Decentralized Identity (DID) 

Now that XLS-40 is live, institutions and developers can create and manage decentralized identifiers (DIDs) directly on the Ledger. This feature enables self-sovereign identity, allowing users to establish verifiable identities without relying on centralized intermediaries. 

By leveraging DIDs, institutions can enhance security, privacy, and compliance while maintaining decentralization. This lays the groundwork for permissioned access to financial markets, identity verification for tokenized real-world assets (RWAs), and broader institutional adoption of DeFi.

Key Use Cases

  • Privacy-Preserving KYC & AML Compliance – Institutions can verify identity attributes without exposing sensitive personal data.

  • Permissioned Finance & Access Control – Gate entry to regulated trading venues using onchain credentials.

  • Institutional Onboarding – Streamline identity verification for tokenized securities, RWAs, and lending platforms.

Price Oracles: Bringing Market Data Onchain

Real-time and accurate price feeds are critical for institutional DeFi—especially when dealing with tokenized assets and cross-chain transactions. To meet this need, the XRP Ledger integrates protocol-native oracles, providing a built-in mechanism for bringing off-chain data (like stablecoin rates and real-world asset valuations) onchain. Because these oracles are embedded directly into the XRPL—much like its native AMM—they avoid reliance on separate third-party layers, ensuring more efficient and trustworthy data flows. 

Providers such as Band Protocol and DIA are already live on the XRPL mainnet, delivering robust price feeds that span both crypto and traditional markets. This is essential for institutions, given that much of the data required still resides in legacy Web2 systems.

Key Use Cases

  • Accurate RWA Valuation – Ensuring tokenized assets remain pegged to their real-world counterparts.

  • Cross-Chain Interoperability – Providing price feeds for assets moving across different blockchain networks.

  • Institutional-Grade Risk Management – Enabling more reliable onchain lending and derivatives.

What’s Coming to the XRP Ledger: Expanded Compliance Features, Institutional Lending, and Programmability

XRPL is evolving with new features that bring greater compliance functions, expanded lending, and more ways to build onchain financial products. These changes will enable institutions to meet regulatory requirements, offer new lending options, and give developers more flexibility to build and deploy financial applications.

Building on DID: Permissioned DEX, Credentials & Compliance Innovations

Enhancing the ‘Identity Stack’ in finance tools will enable institutions to build secure, compliant trading venues on XRPL.

Credentials are designed to be a lightweight feature and are additive to the recent Decentralized Identity (DID) standard. The Credentials standard introduces a new ‘Credential’ ledger object along with new transaction types for creating, accepting, and deleting credentials. The XLS-70 spec for Credentials on the XRPL is currently undergoing the amendment voting process as part of the rippled 2.3.0 release.

Ripple Senior Software Engineer, Mayukha Vadari, recently outlined how to consider Credentials as a modular building block to DID. It can be applied to attest to specific criteria (e.g. KYC) pertaining to a user and issued to their DID. This is critical in terms of enabling a smooth onboarding process when accessing products like tokenized RWAs.

Credentials and DID give rise to two additional features, Permissioned Domains and a Permissioned DEX, that help facilitate a flexible, institutional-grade identity system on XRPL.

Permissioned Domains allow entities, such as financial institutions, to establish environments on the XRPL that require specific credentials for access. This setup enables organizations to define membership criteria, such as Know Your Customer (KYC) credentials from trusted issuers, and manage participation within their domain. Importantly, this system preserves user privacy by verifying credential validity without exposing personal information

Building upon this, the Permissioned DEX extends the XRPL’s native DEX to operate within these controlled domains, ensuring that only accounts with valid credentials can create or fill orders. This approach allows institutions to engage in decentralized trading while adhering to regulatory requirements, such as Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and KYC rules, all within a decentralized framework.

While DIDs serve as a foundational “fingerprint” for each user, Credentials provide the identity and compliance layer required for different scenarios. Building on these foundations, Permissioned Domains and Permissioned DEX protocols enforce membership and compliance rules by requiring the appropriate DID-based Credentials, all while preserving the open nature of the XRPL.

Multi-Purpose Token (MPT): A New Standard for Tokenized Assets

Traditional financial instruments such as stocks, bonds, and other securities possess intricate data requirements that can be challenging to represent onchain as fungible tokens. For instance, two bonds may be identical in all regards except their expiry dates, which is a critical detail and makes it inappropriate to present both as equivalent. 

To solve this, the XRPL developer community has introduced Multi-Purpose Tokens (MPTs) which bridge the gap between fungible and non-fungible tokens. They are akin to “semi-fungible” tokens whereby key associated metadata can be attached. This provides them with more flexibility than fungible tokens, while they’re not truly unique such as with NFTs.

Currently undergoing validator voting, MPT introduces a more flexible, efficient, and metadata-rich token standard that allows institutions to tokenize and trade bonds, RWAs, and structured financial products with enhanced functionality.

Key Use Cases

  • Tokenized Bonds – Represent fixed-income assets on XRPL with precise metadata storage.

  • Grade Asset Management – Better compliance features, efficiency, and control over tokenized securities.

XRPL Lending Protocol: Credit-Based DeFi for Institutions 

The XRP Ledger-native lending protocol adds a pivotal dimension to the XRPL’s DeFi capabilities. This proposed amendment will enable crypto-native businesses to integrate lending with Ripple Payments, DEX, RWAs, and stablecoins, using a default RLUSD vault to reduce liquidity fragmentation and AMM for seamless FX swaps. It will also look to streamline asset allocation and fund admin for crypto-native managers with automated returns, real-time valuations, diversified strategies, and compliant execution via RWAs and onchain KYC.

Institutional DeFi requires robust, scalable, and secure financial products. The XRPL-native lending protocol addresses these needs by providing a decentralized, protocol-native solution for lending that reduces reliance on intermediaries, enhances transparency, and offers a higher degree of security.

The lending protocol specs, XLS-65d, will allow for the pooling of assets (public or private) represented by Vault shares, with optional Permissioned Domain access, while XLS-66d will introduce on-ledger, fixed-term, uncollateralized lending with off-chain underwriting and first-loss capital protection, allowing financial institutions to issue credit and manage risk directly on the blockchain. You can expect these developments to undergo voting in Q2 of 2025.

Key Use Cases:

  • Institutional Lending Markets – Banks, fintechs, and funds can tokenize and distribute loans onchain.

  • Stablecoin & RWA Integration – Lending backed by tokenized assets and compliance-focused stablecoins.

Expanding Programmability 

As announced in September, Ripple, in collaboration with the community, is committed to bringing permissionless programmability to the XRPL. Programmability on the XRPL offers an opportunity to seamlessly connect its powerful, native building blocks with the flexibility of custom on-chain business logic. This vision focuses on preserving what makes the XRPL special—its efficiency, reliability, and simplicitywhile empowering builders to unlock new possibilities. This goal requires a measured approach, with careful steps that ensure the robustness of the network. 

Native Programmability

The first step of this broader effort will see the introduction of 'Extensions,’ a feature that allows developers to attach small pieces of code to existing XRPL primitives, enhancing their functionality without the need for entirely new smart contracts

This approach can enable the customization of features like escrows, automated market makers (AMMs), and tokens, making them more adaptable to specific use cases while maintaining efficiency and security. For instance, “Smart Escrows” allow developers to incorporate custom release conditions, such as notary approvals or price-based triggers, without needing to rebuild the escrow mechanism from scratch. This method preserves the robustness of XRPL’s native features while offering tailored solutions for complex requirements.

The timeline toward deployment is outlined below:

  • Q1: Early devnet for smart escrows

  • Q2: Full-functional Smart Escrow devnet

  • Q3: Release Smart Escrows in an amendment for voting

  • Q4: Smart Contract devnet

For a detailed overview on ‘Extensions’ and broader programmability efforts you can dive into RippleX Devto blog.

XRPL EVM Sidechain

The XRPL EVM sidechain serves a complementary role to the XRPL, but is not a replacement for mainnet programmability. 

Set for Mainnet launch in Q2 2025, the XRPL EVM Sidechain offers a great opportunity to attract EVM ecosystem developers to the XRPL ecosystem. It can also be used to launch protocols that are not currently possible on the XRPL - especially ones that are already written in Solidity, or specifically require the EVM. This bridged solution, using a cross-chain approach, is useful if a project requires an alternative form of programmability.

Key Benefits:

  • First-Mover Advantage: Be among the first to deploy cross-chain or EVM dApps on an emerging sidechain ecosystem tied to XRPL.

  • Access a Vast Ecosystem: Tap into the 5.7M+ XRP wallet holders and gain exposure to a thriving, established blockchain community.

  • Seamless Development: Use familiar EVM tools to build, port, or fork dApps quickly, with minimal barriers to entry.

Looking Further Ahead

As tokenization and decentralized finance continue to evolve, XRPL is positioning itself as a leader in regulated onchain finance. With deep liquidity, compliance-friendly features, and seamless institutional integration, the next phase of Institutional DeFi will be built on XRPL. 

While a dedicated roadmap page is in development, the broader XRPL ecosystem is actively shaping the future of institutional DeFi through innovations such as Automated Market Makers (AMMs), Price Oracles, Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs), and new tokenization standards. These developments reflect ongoing collaboration across the network to enhance security, efficiency, and institutional-grade financial tools. 

For deeper insights into XRPL’s future, join us at XRPL Apex 2025, where David Schwartz will outline the roadmap and explore the latest advancements driving Institutional DeFi forward.

Reasons for optimism

Ripple hopes that leaning into institutional DeFi, including real-world assets (RWAs), will supercharge the network’s growth, according to the blog post.

Tokenized RWAs represent a $30-trillion market opportunity globally, Colin Butler, Polygon’s global head of institutional capital, told Cointelegraph in an interview.

Trump, who has promised to turn the US into the “world’s crypto capital,” plans to tap industry-friendly leaders to head key financial regulators, including the US Securities and Exchange Commission.

Several asset managers have applied to list XRP exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in the US, which JPMorgan expects could attract billions in investor inflows.

Some experts have suggested that the SEC case against Ripple, ongoing since 2022, could be paused or withdrawn entirely.

On Feb. 25, the US regulator dropped its probe into Uniswap, a DEX, as part of a broader pivot on crypto policy under Trump. 

 

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The Possible Impact Of USDC On The XRP Ledger And RLUSD
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  • It seems likely that USDC on the XRP Ledger (XRPL) boosts liquidity, benefiting XRP, though some see it as competition for RLUSD.
  • Research suggests both stablecoins can coexist, enhancing the XRPL ecosystem.
  • The evidence leans toward increased network activity being good for XRP, despite potential competition.

The recent launch of USDC on the XRP Ledger has sparked discussions about its impact on the ecosystem, particularly in relation to RLUSD, Ripple's own stablecoin. This response explores whether this development is more about competition for RLUSD or if it enhances liquidity on the XRPL, ultimately benefiting XRP.
 

Impact on Liquidity and XRP

The introduction of USDC, a major stablecoin with a $61 billion market cap, likely increases liquidity on the XRPL by attracting more users, developers, and institutions. This boost can enhance DeFi applications and enterprise payments, potentially driving demand for XRP, the native token used for transaction fees. While some may view it as competition for RLUSD, the overall effect seems positive for the XRPL's growth.
 

Competition vs. Coexistence with RLUSD

USDC and RLUSD cater to different needs: USDC appeals to those valuing regulatory compliance, while RLUSD, backed by Ripple, may attract users preferring ecosystem integration. Research suggests both can coexist, increasing options and fostering innovation, rather than purely competing.
 

Detailed Analysis of USDC on XRPL and Its Implications

The integration of USDC on the XRP Ledger (XRPL), announced on June 12, 2025, by Circle, has significant implications for the ecosystem, particularly in relation to RLUSD, Ripple's stablecoin launched in 2024. This section provides a comprehensive analysis, exploring whether this development is more about competition for RLUSD or if it enhances liquidity on the XRPL, ultimately benefiting XRP.
 

Understanding RLUSD and Its Role

RLUSD, Ripple's stablecoin, received approval from the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) in 2024 and is designed to be fully backed by cash and cash equivalents, ensuring stability. It is available on both the Ethereum and XRP Ledger blockchains, aiming to enhance liquidity, reduce volatility, and serve cross-border payments. With a current market cap of $413 million, RLUSD is smaller than USDC's $61 billion but has regulatory credibility, particularly appealing to institutions.
 

Impact of USDC on the XRPL

The launch of USDC on the XRPL is a significant development, given its status as the second-largest stablecoin by market cap.
 
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  • Liquidity Boost: USDC's integration can attract more users, developers, and institutions, increasing overall liquidity. This is crucial for DeFi applications, as Circle's announcement emphasizes its use in liquidity provisioning for token pairs and FX flows.
  • Increased Utility: USDC enhances the XRPL's utility for enterprise payments, financial infrastructure, and DeFi, potentially making it more attractive for global money movement and transparent settlements.
  • Regulatory and Institutional Appeal: As a regulated stablecoin issued by Circle, USDC can bring institutional users to the XRPL, aligning with Ripple's goals for regulated financial activities.
  • Network Growth: Supporting a widely recognized stablecoin like USDC on 22 blockchains, including the XRPL, increases the network's visibility and adoption, potentially driving more activity.

Competition vs. Complementarity with RLUSD

While USDC's launch could be seen as competition for RLUSD, the evidence suggests a more nuanced relationship:
  • Competition: Both are stablecoins on the XRPL, and USDC's larger market presence ($61 billion vs. RLUSD's $413 million) might attract users and developers away from RLUSD. However, competition can drive innovation, such as lower fees or better services, benefiting the ecosystem
  • Complementarity: Different stablecoins cater to different needs. USDC appeals to users valuing regulatory compliance and widespread adoption across multiple blockchains, while RLUSD, backed by Ripple, may attract those preferring ecosystem integration and regulatory approval from NYDFS. The XRPL can benefit from having multiple options, increasing liquidity and fostering a diverse ecosystem.
  • Coexistence Benefits: Research suggests that having multiple stablecoins enhances liquidity and provides users with more choices, potentially leading to higher network activity. For example, institutions might use USDC for global payments and RLUSD for specific XRPL-integrated applications, creating a symbiotic relationships.

Impact on XRP

The introduction of USDC, alongside RLUSD, is likely beneficial for XRP, the native token of the XRPL, for several reasons:
  • Increased Liquidity and Activity: Higher liquidity on the XRPL, driven by both stablecoins, can increase transaction volumes. XRP is used for transaction fees, with some fees burned, potentially reducing supply over time and increasing demand.
  • DeFi and Enterprise Use Cases: Both USDC and RLUSD enhance DeFi and enterprise applications, such as liquidity pools and cross-border payments, which can drive demand for XRP as a settlement token.
  • Network Growth: A more liquid and active XRPL is more attractive to developers and users, potentially leading to long-term growth for XRP, as increased utility can drive its value.
Expert analyses, such as those from u.today and ledgerinsights.com, suggest the launch is a "massive boost" for liquidity and adoption, with RLUSD also playing a significant role.
 

Comparative Analysis: USDC vs. RLUSD

To further illustrate, consider the following table comparing key attributes:
 
Given the evidence, it is more accurate to view the introduction of USDC on the XRPL as beneficial for liquidity, which is ultimately good for XRP, rather than solely as competition for RLUSD. The XRPL benefits from increased options, with both stablecoins enhancing liquidity, utility, and network growth. While some competition exists, the overall impact is positive, fostering a robust ecosystem that can drive demand for XRP. This conclusion aligns with expert analyses and community discussions, acknowledging the complexity of the stablecoin market within the XRPL.
 

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