XRPL enters Brazilian securities infrastructure as banks test tokenized deposits · Issue 020

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Editorial cover for XRPL enters Brazilian securities infrastructure as banks test tokenized deposits

Market View

Institutional blockchain adoption is moving from experiments toward infrastructure that operates beside existing financial systems. CSD BR’s live use of XRPL for Brazilian securities records and ANZ’s tokenized-deposit transaction through Swift show the same pattern: blockchain is increasingly being embedded underneath regulated financial workflows rather than replacing them outright.

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Newsletter highlights

XRPL enters live Brazilian capital-market infrastructure

CSD BR has begun using the XRP Ledger as an additional recording and audit layer for BTG Pactual investment-fund shares. Its existing systems remain the official legal record, but this is materially different from a sandbox: the model is being tested with live transactions inside infrastructure overseeing more than BRL 22 trillion in registered assets. The first phase uses XRPL’s Multi-Purpose Token standard alongside Ripple custody infrastructure, with access restricted to KYC/AML-approved corporate and banking participants. If the mirroring phase succeeds, CSD BR plans to explore native issuance and trading of assets including Brazilian real-estate and agribusiness receivables.

Public blockchains are being redesigned for institutions

The wider XRPL thesis is becoming less about raw transaction speed and more about institutional controls. Permissioned participation, asset freezing, clawback functionality, confidentiality and delegated permissions address the operational requirements that historically pushed financial institutions toward private ledgers. CSD BR provides a concrete test of whether those controls can allow regulated finance to use public-chain infrastructure without surrendering existing governance.

Swift demonstrates the competing architecture

ANZ completed a live U.S.-dollar corporate-treasury payment between Melbourne and New York using tokenized deposits and Swift’s blockchain ledger, with BHP and Citi involved. BHP continued using its existing bank account and banking channels while the blockchain infrastructure operated behind the scenes. There is no disclosed XRP, XRPL or Ripple involvement. The significance is competitive: Swift, banks and stablecoin providers are all building toward always-on interoperable settlement, the same institutional market Ripple targets.

30 September 2026 UTC daily snapshot.

Broader Market Pulse

BTCBitcoin

$83,553.85

0.08% 24h

ETHEthereum

$2,683.68

0.26% 24h

XRPXRP

$1.49

0.11% 24h

BTC and XRP were effectively flat while ETH posted a marginal gain, leaving the major-asset market in consolidation rather than a decisive risk-on move. ETF demand remained supportive—U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs extended their inflow streak to nine sessions—but the underlying price response remained muted.

Onchain Activity

Global DEX spot volume

$9.61B / 24hWeekly volume -10.12%

XRPL stablecoin balance

~$1.20B~0.39% of tracked stablecoin supply

RLUSD share of XRPL stablecoins

~93.8%~$1.125B on XRPL

Global stablecoin supply

~$306.25B30 September 2026 snapshot

The striking metric is not simply XRPL’s stablecoin balance but its concentration: RLUSD now supplies most of the dollar liquidity reported on the network. That strengthens Ripple’s settlement infrastructure, but the next evidence needed is sustained growth in payments, DEX turnover and other economically meaningful uses of that liquidity.

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Ecosystems to Watch

BaseTVL and user activity

Base’s TVL recently reached roughly $6.28B, up about 52% from the end of June, but stablecoin supply increased only around 4.3% over the same period. Monthly daily-active accounts averaged roughly 320,000, down 73% year over year, while average DEX volume was down about 50%. That divergence matters: asset values and lending can push TVL higher without equivalent growth in users or organic trading. Base needs activity to catch up with capital.

52% since end-June

SolanaTokenized commodities

Solana recently captured roughly 36% of tokenized-commodity DEX volume, up from around 1% several weeks earlier, while its stablecoin supply stood near $16.35B on 30 September. Persistence of this market share after the initial surge would provide stronger evidence that the activity is structural.

36% share

Project of the Day

Aerodrome Finance

Aerodrome is one of the clearer examples of a token with explicit economic participation in protocol activity. AERO can be locked into veAERO, which directs liquidity incentives; in return, token operators receive exchange revenue generated by the pools they support. Aerodrome documentation states that 100% of exchange revenue is distributed to token operators.

DefiLlama data shows substantial real trading and fee generation, while the token’s long lock structure aligns governance with longer-term participation rather than purely liquid farming.

The caveat is dilution. AERO remains an emissions-based token, and official documentation places annualized emissions around 10.9% in the latest published framework. The token economy therefore depends on trading revenue and voting incentives continuing to justify the new supply.

XRP & XRPL Positioning

The strongest XRP Ledger evidence today is infrastructure adoption rather than direct XRP demand.

CSD BR is using XRPL in a regulated live environment, while RLUSD now represents the overwhelming majority of stablecoin value reported on the network. Together, those developments improve the foundations for tokenized assets and institutional liquidity.

The XRP-specific thesis strengthens only if that infrastructure produces sustained activity where XRP performs an economic function—bridging assets, supplying liquidity, acting as collateral or facilitating settlement. If tokenized assets grow on XRPL while XRP remains largely incidental to their financial flows, network adoption and XRP value accrual should continue to be treated separately.

Bottom Line

01XRPL has moved into live regulated Brazilian securities infrastructure, but the current phase mirrors records rather than replacing the legal settlement system.
02RLUSD’s expanding XRPL footprint gives the network substantial native dollar liquidity; transaction and settlement activity now need to follow the supply growth.
03Institutional finance is converging on tokenized, always-on infrastructure, but XRP’s investment thesis ultimately depends on capturing an economic role inside those flows—not simply being connected to the networks processing them.

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