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Ripple’s Partnership With BDACS Pays Off as XRP Support Goes Live at Korean Crypto Custodian

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XRP is now live on BDACS, a regulated crypto custodian for South Korean institutions, marking the first concrete outcome of Ripple’s custody partnership announced in February.

BDACS talked about the launch in a post made Aug. 5 on X. The firm said it will offer custody support for XRP, which it described as one of the most popular digital assets in South Korea. This update follows a partnership announced Feb. 26 with Ripple, the U.S.-based blockchain company that developed the XRP Ledger and its native token.

When the partnership was announced in February, BDACS said the deal aligned with South Korea’s Financial Services Commission roadmap, which seeks to expand institutional participation in the country’s digital asset market.

At the time, the firm said it would support both XRP and RLUSD, Ripple’s U.S. dollar–denominated stablecoin, using Ripple Custody, a software platform built for institutions to store and manage digital assets securely. The Aug. 5 launch puts that plan into effect, giving institutional clients regulated access to XRP in South Korea.

In the Feb. 26 press release, BDACS said the partnership was intended to support developers building on the XRP Ledger and help expand use cases for tokenization and stablecoin adoption. The firm also cited research projecting that crypto custody could reach $16 trillion in assets by 2030 and that 10% of global GDP could be tokenized by then.

At the time, Fiona Murray, Ripple’s managing director for the Asia-Pacific region, said the collaboration came amid rising market activity and evolving regulatory conditions in South Korea. BDACS CEO Harry Ryoo said the firm aimed to provide secure and compliant custody services to support Ripple’s blockchain initiatives.

XRP is the native token of the XRP Ledger, a layer 1 blockchain designed for low-cost, scalable transfers of digital and tokenized assets. RLUSD is Ripple’s stablecoin, backed by dollar reserves and targeted at enterprise and financial institutions.

BDACS has also partnered with Avalanche, Polymesh and Woori Bank, and participates in projects within the blockchain regulation-free zone in Busan. In its February release, the firm said its collaboration with Ripple supported efforts to expand institutional custody services under Korea’s regulatory framework.

As of the time of writing, XRP was trading at $2.97, down 3.4% in the past 24 hours, according to CoinDesk Data.

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CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: Index Drops 2.5% as Nearly All Constituents Decline

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CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index.

The CoinDesk 20 is currently trading at 4248.74, down 2.5% (-109.09) since 4 p.m. ET on Monday.

One of 20 assets is trading higher.

9am CoinDesk 20 Update for 2025-09-15: vertical

Leaders: AVAX (+0.6%) and BCH (-0.8%).

Laggards: UNI (-9.9%) and LINK (-7.0%).

The CoinDesk 20 is a broad-based index traded on multiple platforms in several regions globally.

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Pantera-Backed Solana Treasury Firm Helius Raises $500M, Stock Soars Over 200%

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Helius Medical Technologies (HSDT) announced on Monday it’s raising more than $500 million in a private financing round to create a Solana-focused treasury company.

The vehicle will hold SOL, the native token of the Solana blockchain, as its reserve asset and aims to expand to more than $1.25 billion via stock warrants tied to the deal, the press release said.

The financing was led by Pantera Capital and Summer Capital, with participation from investors including Animoca Brands, FalconX and HashKey Capital.

Shares of the firm rallied over 200% above $24 in pre-market trading following the announcement. Solana was down 4% over the past 24 hours.

The firm is joining the latest wave of new digital asset treasuries, or DATs, with public companies pivoting to raise funds and buy cryptocurrencies like bitcoin (BTC), ether (ETH) or SOL.

Helius is set to rival with the recently launched Forward Industries (FORD) with a $1.65 billion war chest backed by Galaxy Digital and others. That firm confirmed on Monday that has already purchased 6.8 million tokens for roughly $1.58 billion last week.

Helius’ plan is to use Solana’s yield-bearing design to generate income on the holdings, earning staking rewards of around 7% as well as deploying tokens in decentralized finance (DeFi) and lending opportunities. Incoming executive chairman Joseph Chee, founder of Summer Capital and a former UBS banker, will lead the firm’s digital asset strategy alongside Pantera’s Cosmo Jiang and Dan Morehead.

«As a pioneer in the digital asset treasury space, having participated in the formation of the strategy at Twenty One Capital (CEP) with Tether, Softbank and Cantor, Bitmine (BMNR) with Tom Lee and Mozayyx as well as EightCo (OCTO) with Dan Ives and Sam Altman, we have built the expertise to set up the pre-eminent Solana treasury vehicle,» Cosmo Jiang, general partner at Pantera Capital, said in a statement.

«There is a real opportunity to drive the flywheel of creating shareholder value that Michael Saylor has pioneered with Strategy by accelerating Solana adoption,» he added.

Read more: Solana Surges as Galaxy Scoops Up Over $700M Tokens From Exchanges

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Boundless Launches Mainnet on Base, Ushering in Universal Zero-Knowledge Compute

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Boundless, the zero-knowledge (ZK) compute marketplace incubated by RISC Zero, has officially launched its Mainnet on Base, giving every blockchain access to verifiable compute.

The milestone builds on the network’s incentivized testnet, which went live in July and stress-tested Boundless’ architecture under real-world conditions.

During that Beta phase, Boundless operated like a decentralized marketplace where developers seeking ZK proofs for applications such as rollups, bridges and privacy protocols could connect with independent provers, or ZK miners, who generated those proofs.

The launch introduced Proof of Verifiable Work, an incentive mechanism that rewards provers based on the volume, speed and complexity of their computations. Community participation was strong, fueled in part by the anticipation of $ZKC token rewards.

With Monday’s mainnet launch, those capabilities are now operational at scale. The team behind Boundless says it can deliver verifiable compute across chains, enabling developers to build applications that preserve privacy while scaling seamlessly between ecosystems.

Some key protocols have started to integrate Boundless into their systems. Wormhole is integrating Boundless to add ZK verification to Ethereum consensus, making cross-chain transfers more secure.

BOB, a hybrid Bitcoin rollup, is tapping Boundless to allow EVM applications to interoperate with Bitcoin using proofs that inherit Bitcoin’s security while drawing on Ethereum’s liquidity. And staking protocol Lido is deploying Boundless to secure validator exits with transparent proofs, strengthening trust and auditability for its crypto assets.

“For the first time, developers on any chain can access abundant zero-knowledge compute to build complex applications that scale across ecosystems without sacrificing decentralization,” said Shiv Shankar, the CEO of Boundless.

Read more: Risc Zero’s ‘Boundless’ Incentivized Testnet Goes Live

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