XRP is moving past the speculation into actual infrastructure. The recent trends indicate that there is an increase in institutional adoption in Asia and global payment systems. This is not a hype change but rather a real deployment and capital allocation.
Evernorth Internationalizes XRP operations to Japan and Korea.
XRP is being initiated in Japan and Korea by Evernorth. This strategic expansion was confirmed in the public by CEO Ashish Birla. These markets already demonstrate high XRP retail and liquidity pools.Korea and Japan are very important XRP trading places.
The two nations propelled the 2017 price explosion of XRP by continuous purchases. Also, SBI Holdings runs XRP-based remittances such as MoneyTap and SBI Remit in there. Evernorth are not exploring markets, they are creating institutional layers where there is existing demand.
Big Treasury Holdings Take XRP out of Circulation.
Evernorth has about 473 million XRP treasury reserves. More than 800 million more tokens have been stashed away in XRP ETFs. Together, such institutions possess 1.3 billion of the 60 billion XRP supply.
This pile-up produces a long-term upwards pressure on price. With the increase of ETFs and the entry of new institutional investors, the supply gets smaller and smaller. This therefore is true adoption, and not speculation, which takes tokens out of open markets forever.
PRX Visa and Mastercard Patent Filings.
Visa specifically patented blockchain payment using XRP and XLM. The patent of the Visa digital fiat currency settlement was used in Harvard University on the academic reference material. These records indicate that XRP will be used in cross-border transactions structures.
There are current Visa and Mastercard crypto programs (more than 130). Visa controls 90% of card settlements in the world.Furthermore, the acquisition fight that Visa has waged against Mastercard regarding Earthport a Ripple partner shows that Visa was interested strategically.
Neutral liquid settlement assets are used in preference of volatile ones by the payment giants.
The Financial Infrastructure is moving to tokenized Settlement.
The World Economic Forum talked about a shift to a new world order in 2026. The phrase is an indicator of the reimagination of the supply chains on a dire need basis using tokenized liquidity solutions. Fragmentation and processes based on the trust disintegrate the traditional settlement systems.
24/7 settlement and no friction with correspondent banking are provided via tokenization. Asset-neutrality does away with latency of traditional payment rails. Secondly, the switching costs are enormous when they settle down and generate competitive advantages permanently.
Old Banks Fight to Survive Crypto to Business Model.
Banks resist crypto regulations to have deposit monopolies and fee systems. They dictate the time of settlement and give low rate of saving to their customers. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong singled out banks as the major impediments to crypto laws.
Genius Act allowed the use of stablecoins as rewards even when the banking industry opposed the idea. Banks are making huge profits and giving a small interest on money deposited by customers.
Stablecoins are a threat to this model because they have competitive yields and they settle instantly. It is not about the risk that this resistance is about, this is about maintaining old forms of profits.
XRP ETF 21Shares XRP ETF Gradually Gaining Institutional commitment.
21Shares submitted revised regulatory reports that reflected a great increase of XRP ETF. Assets managed grew in Q3 2025 to 280 million as compared to 220 million in Q3 2024. The net assets value per share increased to a range of 28 to 21.
Such audited amounts represent actual institutional capital investment. The institutions operate the funds according to the infrastructure preparedness and not narratives or announcements.
Integration occurs unannounced and in the intersection of liquidity and urgency (XRP adoption). The change is final, not noisy–but irreversible without any chance of recovery upon its execution..
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