Ripple Labs: The company behind XRP is probably planning a billion-dollar investment
Ripple Labs, the company behind the development of XRP, apparently wants to pump billions into its own token.
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• Ripple Labs wants to invest massively in its own token
• New DAT exclusively for XRP
• Signal of confidence to the markets
The last few months have been turbulent for crypto investors as the market has been quite volatile. But while many market participants are still waiting on the sidelines, Ripple Labs, the company behind the cryptocurrency XRP, is apparently pushing ahead.
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New Digital Asset Treasury for XRP Investments
As the news agency “Bloomberg” reports, citing insiders, the creation of a so-called Digital Asset Treasury (DAT) – a kind of reserve fund that is intended to strategically hoard XRP – is planned, which is to be endowed with at least one billion US dollars. This would make this DAT the largest known investment vehicle specifically for XRP.
The required capital is to be raised via a SPAC (Special Purpose Acquisition Company). The aim is to use this model to attract investors from the traditional financial sector. Ripple itself also intends to contribute part of its XRP holdings to the new special purpose vehicle. Ripple currently directly owns around 4.74 billion XRT tokens worth around eleven billion US dollars. A further 35.9 billion XRP are deposited in an escrow account (Escrow) and are to be released in monthly tranches.
Confidence-building measure
On the one hand, the establishment of the new XRP fund sends a clear signal of trust in its own technology and the XRP token to investors. With a market capitalization of around $143 billion, XRP is currently the fifth largest cryptocurrency in the world (as of October 22, 2025).
In addition, the demand for the company’s own cryptocurrency should also be stimulated. But whether this will be successful in the long term remains to be seen. In any case, doubts are appropriate, after all, according to the report, Ripple Labs also wants to bring XRP holdings from its own possession into the digital asset treasury, which are not available to the secondary market. However, the XRP price only increases noticeably when significant sums are taken from the secondary market and supply becomes scarcer.
Editorial team finanzen.net