After years of legal battles, Ripple is unstoppable, charging full speed into a new era — not only in the crypto world but also in institutional finance.
🔹 Market Revolution: Record-Breaking Acquisitions
The United States is experiencing an unprecedented crypto boom.
In the first four months of 2025 alone, 88 crypto-related deals worth $8.2 billion were announced – triple the total from all of 2024!
This surge in activity clearly shows a deepening integration between the worlds of Traditional Finance (TradFi) and Decentralized Finance (DeFi).
The deals fall into five major trends:
🔹 Companies buying Bitcoin for their treasuries (e.g., Twenty One Capital)
🔹 Traditional firms partnering with crypto infrastructure providers
🔹 Acquisitions focused on institutional services (like Ripple buying Metaco)
🔹 Mergers between crypto and traditional trading platforms
🔹 Token-based project consolidations
🔹 Ripple's Bold Move: Leading TradFi-DeFi Integration
Among all these deals, one stands out — Ripple’s $1.25 billion acquisition of prime broker Hidden Road.
As highlighted by well-known pro-XRP attorney John Deaton, it is "perhaps the best example" of the convergence between traditional and decentralized finance.
Hidden Road serves more than 300 institutional clients and processes over $3 trillion annually.
Thanks to its integration with Ripple’s XRP Ledger (XRPL), settlement times have dropped dramatically — from 24 hours to just 3–5 seconds.
Moreover, Ripple’s newly launched stablecoin RLUSD now serves as collateral for trades, directly linking blockchain infrastructure with institutional trading workflows.
🔹 Ripple Expands into Crypto Custody
Ripple didn’t stop at Hidden Road.
Alongside acquiring Metaco, it also bought Standard Custody and launched its own service — Ripple Custody — offering banks and institutions a full package: payments, stablecoins, and secure digital asset storage.
🔹 Preparing for the Tokenization Boom
Why is Ripple investing so heavily in custody and infrastructure?
Deaton believes Ripple is getting ready for a massive tokenization wave, expected to grow into a $16 trillion market by 2030.
Ripple is building the tools that banks will need to tokenize stocks, bonds, and even real estate via XRPL — with all transactions powered by RLUSD.
"It seems [CEO] Brad Garlinghouse is making up for lost time," Deaton remarked, referring to Ripple’s aggressive expansion after its prolonged legal battle with the SEC.
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