Ripple’s 2025 Acquisitions Aim to Create Financial Infrastructure Giant

Ripple's acquisitions in 2025, totaling approximately $2.45 billion, are part of a strategic move to create a vertically integrated financial infrastructure, similar to Amazon's approach with AWS and logistics. The acquisitions aim to position Ripple as a dominant institutional platform.

Ripple aims for a comprehensive institutional platform with its stablecoin RLUSD and XRP at the settlement layer.
The acquisitions include Hidden Road ($1.25 billion), Rail ($200 million), GTreasury ($1 billion), and Palisade (undisclosed).
Hidden Road, rebranded as "Ripple Prime," focuses on prime brokerage services, handling large-scale trades and settlements.
Rail is a stablecoin payments platform expected to process over 10% of the global B2B stablecoin payments market in 2025.
GTreasury offers treasury software for large corporations, processing $12.5 trillion annually, providing access to corporate finance workflows.
Palisade provides wallet-as-a-service infrastructure for high-velocity transactions.

These moves are designed to lower costs, increase efficiency, and create high switching costs for institutions, making Ripple an attractive partner. At press time, XRP traded at $2.10.

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