Ripple’s Big Move That Brings BlackRock and Wall Street for XRP

Ripple’s latest move has inspired confidence in market observers as its completed acquisition and rebrand of Hidden Road is a decisive expansion into institutional ￰1￱ $1.25 billion purchase of the global prime broker has positioned Ripple to service some of the world’s largest financial institutions through a structure they already ￰2￱ (@Xaif_Crypto) a well-known crypto commentator on X highlighted the significance of the deal by sharing a video in which Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse explained the purpose of the ￰3￱ stated

“Our acquisition this week Hidden Road we paid $1.25 billion for what’s called a prime ￰4￱ this allows even larger institutions like BlackRock like the biggest Wall Street financial institutions

to come into this market in a way they understand with a safer prime broker to help clear transactions and a bigger balance sheet to do that.” The acquisition of Hidden Road allows institutions like BlackRock and Wall Street to access a safer prime broker Enabling them to conduct more secure transactions directly on their balance sheets. @bgarlinghouse #XRP ￰0￱ ￰5￱ — Xaif Crypto | (@Xaif_Crypto) October 27 2025 Institutional Trust and Infrastructure Growth Hidden Road now known as Ripple Prime

serves as a multi-asset prime broker offering clearing financing and liquidity services across traditional and digital ￰6￱ over 300 institutional clients and an annual clearing volume in the trillions its integration into Ripple’s operations brings a level of institutional-grade security and compliance infrastructure previously uncommon in the crypto ￰7￱ are on X

follow us to connect with us :- @TimesTabloid1 — TimesTabloid (@TimesTabloid1) June 15 2025 The acquisition gives Ripple an immediate foothold in a regulated environment that is essential for attracting major financial entities seeking a stable and compliant entry into digital ￰8￱ those institutions access to a familiar prime brokerage model may eliminate one of the most persistent barriers to entry in the crypto ￰9￱ Prime ensures that Ripple can conduct these institutional transactions directly on balance sheets with improved risk management and regulatory ￰10￱ step moves XRP and the XRP Ledger closer to being utilized as settlement and liquidity tools within large-scale financial ￰11￱ XRP’s Functional Role The integration of Hidden Road opens opportunities for using Ripple’s own stablecoin

RLUSD as collateral within institutional trading ￰12￱ these mechanisms expand the XRP Ledger may see increased transaction activity related to post-trade settlements and asset tokenization all of which contribute to a more practical use case for XRP ￰13￱ acquisition strengthens Ripple’s ability to connect traditional finance with digital asset ￰14￱ financial institutions begin leveraging the XRP Ledger for settlement efficiency and liquidity management

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