Ripple is raising $1 billion through a SPAC to buy and hold more XRP tokens

Ripple Labs is raising $1 billion to fill up a new crypto war chest with more XRP, even as most of the market is still wrecked from last week’s ￰0￱ company is creating what it calls a digital-asset treasury, or DAT, which will be stacked with ￰1￱ money will come through a SPAC deal, and Ripple also plans to put in some of its own XRP tokens, according to a report by ￰2￱ plan hasn’t been finalized yet. A few details, including Ripple’s full contribution and the structure of the fundraising, are still being ￰3￱ the end goal is clear: Ripple wants to bulk up its XRP reserves fast and on its own terms, while the industry is still struggling to ￰4￱ buys GTreasury, pushes ahead with SPAC while markets drop The fundraising comes just days after a market crash that triggered massive ￰5￱ sell-off, which was worsened by the growing U.

S.–China trade tensions, caused serious panic across ￰6￱ Bitcoin dropped more than 3% on Thursday, showing the market isn’t done ￰7￱ hasn’t stopped Ripple from moving ￰8￱ the plan works, this would be the largest XRP-focused treasury ever ￰9￱ the same time, Cryptopolitan reported on Thursday that Ripple is buying GTreasury for $1 ￰10￱ is a company that builds tools for finance teams to manage crypto holdings like stablecoins, tokenized deposits, and other ￰11￱ said the deal will help it work more closely with corporate treasurers who want better crypto infrastructure. Still, investors don’t seem too excited about DATs ￰12￱ of big crypto-holding firms like Strategy Inc., run by Michael Saylor, and Metaplanet in Japan have dropped sharply in recent ￰13￱ people are backing off after watching Bitcoin and altcoins get ￰14￱ makes Ripple’s timing all the more ￰15￱ XRP has held up better than ￰16￱ far in 2025, the token has risen 13%, while Bitcoin is up 16%.

Ripple already holds 4.74 billion XRP in its wallets, worth around $11 billion, based on recent ￰17￱ company also has 35.9 billion XRP locked up in on-ledger escrows, which release on a monthly ￰18￱ treasuries slow down as Ripple builds its own stash This year, more than 300 public companies are holding Bitcoin through crypto treasury vehicles, many of which were created using SPACs or reverse ￰19￱ the buying is slowing ￰20￱ August, firms bought just 14,800 Bitcoin, down from 66,000 in ￰21￱ average purchase size dropped to 343 Bitcoin, a huge fall from earlier ￰22￱ in March, Bitcoin accumulation was growing at 163%, but by August, that number was just 8%.

So far, XRP hasn’t seen that kind of institutional ￰23￱ companies have taken major stakes in the ￰24￱ rare case is VivoPower International Plc, a clean-energy firm that raised $121 million in May to move into ￰25￱ treasuries remain focused on ￰26￱ Ripple prepares its SPAC-driven fundraising push, others in the space are trying new ￰27￱ crypto lenders and derivatives firms have been building out creative financing tools like Bitcoin-backed loans, convertible token deals, and structured crypto ￰28￱ setups offer more speed and freedom than banks can, but they’re also ￰29￱ fact, some of these strategies have become dangerous ￰30￱ are now betting on short-term yields, giving up long-term upside just to stay afloat.

It’s turned into a tightrope walk for some treasury managers; they’re stacking volatile assets on top of even riskier structures, with barely any room for ￰31￱ smartest crypto minds already read our ￰32￱ in? Join them .