XRP News: Ripple Takes Equity Stakes in Zilo and Licuido to Fix Idle Tokenized Assets

XRP News: Ripple Takes Equity Stakes in Zilo and Licuido... Ripple's equity investments in Zilo and Licuido aim to turn idle tokenized fund shares into working collateral on the XRP Ledger via atomic settlement. The post XRP News: Ripple Takes Equity Stakes in Zilo and Licuido to Fix Idle Tokenized Assets appeared first on Cryptonews. In the latest XRP News, Ripple announced strategic equity investments in two UK-based firms, Zilo and Licuido, on August 3, 2026, converting existing commercial partnerships into ownership positions to complete a full-lifecycle institutional capital markets stack on the XRP Ledger.The move targets the gap that has stalled most institutional tokenization pilots: minting a token is straightforward; financing, pledging, and settling it with the same reliability as a conventional holding is not.Xrp (XRP)24h7d30d1yAll timeDiscover: Everyone's Got a Take. Get Free $25 to Actually Trade YoursThe Problem: Tokenized Assets That Sit IdleInstitutional RWA tokenization has exhibited a consistent structural failure: tokenized fund shares are issued and then parked.The ownership record, issuance rail, and settlement mechanism have historically been handled by separate, often incompatible legacy systems that were never designed to interface with on-chain collateral markets. Deepening our push into capital markets, we are investing in ZILO and Licuido to add regulated transfer agency, issuance and collateral mobility to our capital markets infrastructure built on the XRPL. This comes on the heels of Aviva Investors tokenising its US Dollar LiquidityâEUR¦- Ripple (@Ripple) August 3, 2026 Ripple's framing of the deal is explicit on this point. The company described the investments as addressing constraints in which collateral sits idle, settlement takes longer than necessary, and institutions have no reliable path to unlock liquidity from tokenized positions.The Zilo and Licuido stakes are designed to close those three gaps simultaneously on XRPL.Discover: Your Market Calls Are Worth Something. Start With Free $25 on KalshiXRP News: What Zilo and Licuido Each ProvideZilo handles transfer agency and fund administration - the regulated record of who owns what, extended to cover tokenized share classes as funds move on-chain. Before any lender will extend credit against a tokenized fund position, they need a legally reliable ownership register; Zilo supplies that layer. Its client roster, which includes Citi, Fidelity International, and State Street, provides Ripple with a direct bridge into incumbent custody and TA infrastructure.Licuido, an FCA-regulated platform, manages issuance, distribution, and execution, allowing traditional financial assets, including fund shares, to move as digital collateral through on-chain atomic settlement. Ripple invested in two regulated capital markets firms. Today.ZILO âEUR" digital transfer agency for asset managers. On XRPL.Licuido âEUR" FCA-regulated issuance and collateral platform. On XRPL.Partners already building on this infrastructure :Aviva Investors. FranklinâEUR¦ https://t.co/8vOjuu87UP- Arthur (@XrpArthur) August 4, 2026 Trades settle on the XRPL in three to five seconds. Ripple's dollar-pegged stablecoin, RLUSD, functions as the regulated cash leg for delivery-versus-payment transactions, so asset transfer and payment settle simultaneously rather than sequentially.Together, the three-part stack - Zilo for regulated record-keeping, Licuido for issuance and collateral mobility, RLUSD for the cash leg - gives institutions a single operating model for tokenized fund assets from issuance through financing. Neither company's financial terms were disclosed.Photo: Nigel KhakooNigel Khakoo, Ripple's SVP of Trading and Markets, characterized the infrastructure role of both firms in the official press release: "ZILO and Licuido provide core capabilities that are essential to further scaling this shift: regulated digital transfer agency infrastructure and liquidity for issuance and collateral mobility."Building on Live Deployments, Not PilotsThe stakes are not speculative bets on unproven vendors. Ripple confirmed that both investments build on pre-existing partnerships, and Licuido was already in production as the tokenization infrastructure for the Aviva Investors USD Liquidity Fund, the first tokenized fund structure approved by the Central Bank of Ireland on a public blockchain, which went live on XRPL on July 29, 2026. BNY holds the underlying assets; Komainu provides digital asset custody.The institutional pipeline extends further. Ripple's parallel push into institutional infrastructure also encompasses a September 2025 m...