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Trident Digital Tech Holdings plummets following announcement of $500 million fundraise for an XRP treasury

Singapore-based Trident Digital Tech Holdings is the latest player to take up the XRP-focused treasury playbook, joining Chinese firm Webus and energy company VivoPower.

On Thursday, the firm announced an initiative to raise about $500 million to create a large-scale corporate treasury composed of XRP, the fourth-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, at roughly $132 billion. 

Shares of Trident Digital Tech Holdings have dropped nearly 38% on the news.

“The initiative will focus on the acquisition of XRP tokens as long-term strategic reserves, the deployment of staking mechanisms to generate yield, and deep engagement within the Ripple ecosystem,” the press release said, adding that the capital raise will be a combination of equity issuance, strategic placements, and structured financing instruments.

The price of XRP has dropped 3.4% in the last 24 hours, but has jumped over 350% in the past year.

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Ripple launches treasury platform to manage cash and cryptocurrencies

Ripple, the firm closely tied to the fifth-largest cryptocurrency, XRP, introduced a new treasury platform for digital asset and traditional cash management for users like financial officers, treasurers, and accountants. 

Ripple’s move comes more than three months after it acquired treasury software provider GTreasury for $1 billion, one of several steps to grow the firm’s position in corporate finance.

Combining Ripple’s blockchain rails and GTreasury’s software, the new platforms goal is to simplify treasury operations. It eliminates settlement delays with payment times of three to five seconds and optimizes yield from working capital 24/7 through tokenized money market funds such as BlackRock’s BUIDL and overnight secure repo markets with RLUSD, according to a Tuesday blog post

Ripple Treasury also aims to provide “real-time cash positions, automated forecasting, and seamless reporting across traditional cash, digital assets, RLUSD, and XRP holdings,” the blog post stated.

Last year, Ripple filed its national banking license application with the US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, while the firm’s subsidiary Standard Custody & Trust Company applied for a Federal Reserve master account, which would allow Ripple to hold RLUSD reserves directly with the Fed.

XRP has seen $2.4 billion in trading volume in the last 24 hours, increasing 1.8% in the period. The tokens all-time high was set in July 2025 at $3.65. Meanwhile, spot XRP ETFs had nearly $9.2 million worth of inflows on Tuesday, bringing cumulative inflows to $1.4 billion.

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