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Story: Ripple Targets Institutional Credit With XRPL Lending Protocol for Tokenized Assets

By Jean-Luc Maracon

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Why Off-Chain Underwriting Matters. Keeping underwriting off-chain isn't just a technical detail. It's basically the whole pitch.

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What's Still Missing From the Proposal. Unclear, honestly, is how quickly this moves from proposal to product.

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Ripple's Broader Institutional Push. Ripple has been pushing hard into institutional use cases for a while now.

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Ripple wants to change how institutions borrow against tokenized assets. The company has put forward a proposal for an XRPL Lending Protocol — a standardized credit framework…

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The core idea is pretty straightforward: split the credit decision from the blockchain execution.

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Institutional credit teams operate under strict regulatory frameworks. They can't hand credit decisions to a smart contract and call it a day. Ripple seems to get that.

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Private credit, in particular, has been one of the faster-growing corners of traditional finance.

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And that's the catch — it's not operational yet. Ripple hasn't disclosed a launch timeline. No partners have been named publicly.

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Ripple says continued consultation with financial institutions will be crucial in shaping the final framework.

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That said, the underlying logic isn't hard to follow. Institutions want the efficiency gains that blockchain can offer — faster settlement, programmable assets, reduced…

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The XRP Ledger already has a track record in payments and cross-border settlement. Extending it into institutional lending would be a significant expansion of what the network…

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Ripple has been pushing hard into institutional use cases for a while now. The XRPL Lending Protocol fits into that broader pattern — a bet that the XRP Ledger can become core…

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See also: BIS Flags Stablecoins as a Threat to 4 Trillion Dollars in Global Finance Stability

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Tokenized asset markets have grown sharply across the industry. Demand for on-chain credit solutions is real. But so is the competition.

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