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

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 Liquidity…— Ripple (@Ripple) August 3, 2026 Ripple’s framing of the deal is explicit on this point.