Markus Infanger, SVP of RippleX, on Tuesday said XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) is evolving beyond payments as institutional interest grows, with crypto ETFs emerging as a potential bridge between traditional finance and blockchain markets.
RippleX Outlines Three Strategic Priorities
In an interview with The Block, Infanger outlined the company is focusing on three major priorities for 2026.
First, the firm plans to expand institutional decentralized finance (DeFi) on the XRP Ledger.
Tokenized real-world assets on the network have already grown to about $2 billion.
Ripple is developing infrastructure including lending protocols, atomic swaps, privacy features and programmable escrow to support use cases such as collateral mobility, stablecoin payments and institutional finance.
Second, Ripple aims to strengthen the …