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first_img Evernorth partners with Ripple, Kraken, Coinbase, and BitGo to deploy a $648 million XRP treasury

According to The Block, Evernorth, which holds an XRP treasury and is listed on Nasdaq, announced that it will begin deploying its XRP holdings through an "institutional strategy" starting in the fourth quarter, with initial partners including Ripple and cryptocurrency exchanges Kraken, Coinbase, and BitGo.The company currently holds 473 million XRP, valued at approximately $648 million at current prices. Two days before this announcement, Evernorth began trading on Nasdaq under the ticker XRPN after completing a deSPAC merger with Armada Acquisition Corp. II.Founder and CEO Asheesh Birla stated that the company is putting its treasury to work and is choosing to start with strong institutional trading counterparts within the industry. Evernorth's goal is to generate returns from its XRP holdings and increase the per-share holdings, rather than simply pursuing accumulation; the announcement did not specify how much XRP will be deployed. The company also plans to expand into lending and on-chain DeFi strategies once relevant features on the XRP Ledger are available.This strategy is led by newly appointed Chief Investment Officer Hugo Jeandesboz, who previously served as Co-Chief Investment Officer at Coinbase Asset Management. Jeandesboz stated that this requires a set of treasury strategies, a risk framework, and counterparties that can be clearly explained to the board of directors of the listed company. The XRPN stock price has remained relatively flat since opening at $16.68 on Monday, closing at $16.48 on Tuesday, and slightly rising to $16.6 in after-hours trading.

first_img Ripple integrates the Privy wallet under Stripe with the XRP Ledger, AI payments exceed 14 million transactions

Ripple announced the integration of the wallet technology from Privy, a subsidiary of Stripe, into the XRP Ledger, allowing financial applications and AI agents to create accounts, hold cryptocurrency assets, and complete payments without users needing to manage wallet software themselves. Developers can create wallets within their own products and authorize transfers involving XRP, the US dollar stablecoin RLUSD issued by Ripple, and other network assets. Privy is responsible for the wallet infrastructure, reducing the workload for application developers while supporting the export of private keys or mnemonic phrases for wallet migration to other platforms.This integration also allows AI agents or automated bots to hold funds and automatically pay for online data and service fees. Privy documentation states that wallets running on enterprise servers can allow software to hold and spend funds, including purchasing data access services through the x402 payment standard. J. Ayo Akinyele, head of engineering at RippleX, stated that the network has processed over 13 million agent payments via x402, accounting for about 25% of ledger activity. Data from the XRPL AI Hub operated by payment infrastructure developer t54 shows that as of Wednesday, cumulative transactions exceeded 14.3 million, covering 169 registered merchants.However, the cumulative transfer amount is much smaller than the scale suggested by the number of transactions, with the dashboard recording cumulative payments of approximately 6,991 XRP and 12,752 RLUSD, most transaction amounts being very small. Ripple began providing related tools to developers in June and expanded support for payment standards developed by Stripe and payment blockchain Tempo in September.

first_img Asian chip stocks plummet, causing an $800 million liquidation, SanDisk contract settlement exceeds XRP

According to CoinGlass data, in the past 24 hours, 10 exchanges have liquidated approximately $803 million in leveraged positions, with long positions accounting for $694 million, representing 86%, affecting a total of 172,100 traders. About $595 million, nearly three-quarters of the total for the day, was liquidated in the last 12 hours, as the South Korean KOSPI index fell by more than 6%, and Bitcoin briefly dropped below $81,000. The largest single liquidation was a $9.65 million Bitcoin long position on Binance, which was forcibly closed at around $81,773, with Binance accounting for half of the total liquidation volume.Bitcoin topped the list with $181 million in liquidations, followed closely by Ethereum with $178 million, despite its market capitalization being much smaller than Bitcoin's; SOL positions lost $60 million, ZEC $24 million, and NEAR $22 million. Stock-related contracts then made the list, with perpetual contracts tracking U.S. storage chip manufacturer SanDisk liquidating $19.09 million, slightly above HYPE's $19.04 million and XRP's $18.78 million. These perpetual contracts allow traders to bet on stock prices without an expiration date on cryptocurrency exchanges, with contracts for SK Hynix, Micron, and the triple-leveraged U.S. semiconductor ETF SOXL also appearing on the heatmap, with SOXL liquidating $7.21 million.The aforementioned losses coincided with a sell-off in the Seoul market, where Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix each fell by about 8%, as the market worried about AI-related valuations and competition from Chinese storage chip manufacturers.

Evernorth completed the SPAC merger and listed 473 million XRP on Nasdaq, while Bitdeer maintains zero holdings with a weekly production of 300 BTC

According to BBX data, last weekend, global U.S. stock-listed treasury and mining companies released their latest accounts regarding asset reserves, reverse mergers, and liquidity management. The core updates are as follows:Evernorth completed its SPAC merger holding 473 million XRP, scheduled to debut on Nasdaq under the code "XRPN" on October 12: The treasury company Evernorth Holdings officially announced the completion of its business combination with the special purpose acquisition company Armada Acquisition Corp. II. At the time of the transaction's closing, the company’s treasury held approximately 473 million XRP and successfully raised about $300 million in total cash proceeds (before transaction costs). The newly merged company's common stock is expected to officially trade on Nasdaq starting October 12, with the ticker symbol "XRPN".Bitdeer (NASDAQ: $BTDR) disclosed the latest weekly mining data, producing 300.6 BTC and fully liquidating: Nasdaq-listed Bitcoin mining company Bitdeer announced its latest Bitcoin holdings data. As of the week ending October 9, its self-operated Bitcoin mining output was 300.6 BTC, and during the same period, it fully sold 300.6 BTC in the secondary market, resulting in a net addition of 0 BTC for the week. The balance sheet continues to implement a liquidity strategy of immediate sales, currently maintaining a zero Bitcoin holding.

XRP Ledger Foundation: Confirmed that no new XRP has been created, critical vulnerability has been fixed

The XRP Ledger Foundation published a post on platform X to clarify the recent security vulnerability incident of the XRP Ledger, stating that the vulnerability could be used to bypass the limit of the total supply of XRP fixed at 100 billion coins, but it was fixed two weeks ago with version 3.4.1. After verification, no new XRP has been created, and the total amount of XRP currently circulating in the ledger is approximately 99.986 billion coins.The foundation stated that the vulnerability requires hundreds of deliberately constructed operations to trigger and that normal payment transactions are unlikely to be involved. In the future, they will strengthen formal verification, AI adversarial testing, security research collaboration, and vulnerability bounty programs with RippleX and the community. Regarding the repair process, the foundation explained that publicly releasing a patch could allow attackers to use AI to accelerate vulnerability analysis. To address this situation, the XRPL community coordinated efforts. Participants including the XRP Ledger Foundation, RippleX, core developers, and validators reached a social consensus to agree on a plan to directly release the repair program.In addition, version 3.4.1 was also adopted as the mandatory version for the network only after going through the normal amendment voting process and receiving over 80% support from validators for two consecutive weeks. Protocol changes still need to be completed through the amendment mechanism. Previously, J. Ayo Akinyele, the engineering lead at RippleX, also posted on platform X expressing high concern about the recently disclosed critical vulnerability issue in the XRP Ledger (XRPL) payment engine, which is a serious security issue that has existed in the codebase for over 10 years and theoretically could lead to XRP being over-created, breaking the fixed supply limit. However, the vulnerability was discovered by the security research organization Veria AI through Ripple's vulnerability bounty program before it could be exploited.

first_img XRP Treasury Company Evernorth has completed the SPAC merger and will be listed on XRPN

Digital asset treasury company Evernorth Holdings, Inc. announced that it has completed its business combination with special purpose acquisition company Armada Acquisition Corp. II. Armada was initiated by Arrington XRP Capital Fund, LP. Evernorth aims to provide institutional access to the XRP ecosystem at scale, with common stock expected to begin trading on Nasdaq under the ticker XRPN on October 12, 2026, and ringing the Nasdaq closing bell on October 14.At the time of closing, the company holds approximately 473 million XRP and has raised about $300 million in gross cash proceeds (before transaction expenses). Investors include Arrington Capital, SBI Group, Ripple, Pantera Capital, Kraken, GSR, and others. Founder and CEO Asheesh Birla stated that the goal is to establish an actively managed XRP treasury to support ecosystem growth and meet public market demands for transparency and governance.The company stated that as institutional on-chain finance develops, the need for capital expansion in tokenized assets, on-chain credit markets, and settlement infrastructure arises. Evernorth intends to be a source of such capital and operate according to the reporting, governance, and disclosure standards of Nasdaq-listed companies. Michael Arrington, founder of Arrington Capital, stated that support for Evernorth is an extension of its XRP thesis, which will bring scalable capital, active participation, and public company standards.

Firelight will roll back the blacklist process and unfreeze the affected wallets, involving 87 addresses and 117,500 FXRP

The on-chain guarantee protocol Firelight stated that some deposit addresses failed the fund screening, and the related funds have been unstaked and returned to the original addresses, involving 87 addresses and a total of 117,500 FXRP. Firelight mentioned that the current mechanism screens blacklisted addresses or addresses sanctioned by OFAC during fund deployment and throughout the entire cycle. If an address is flagged during deployment or within the cycle, the funds will remain in the protocol until the cycle ends and will not generate rewards, but can still participate in the guarantee module for the remaining time of that cycle.After the cycle ends, the funds will be returned, and the related wallets will be prohibited from accessing again. Firelight stated that this practice is unsustainable and will roll back the blacklist process in the coming days and unfreeze the affected wallets; the time and steps for retrieving funds will be announced separately. Security, KYC, and institutional standards remain unchanged, and Firelight will develop a new plan that does not affect users in the coming weeks and will seek community input before any changes. Flare co-founder Hugo Philion stated that due to compliance policies, 84 Flare addresses have been unstaked by Firelight, and he personally will issue equivalent subsidies to those addresses that are not sanctioned and not widely blacklisted.

first_img XRP Ledger activates delegated permission functionality, supporting the separation of payment and compliance functions

On October 8, the XRP Ledger activated the PermissionDelegationV1_1 feature, allowing account owners to authorize other accounts to perform specific tasks without relinquishing control of the account's master key. According to the monitoring site XRPL Dashboard, such upgrades require over 80% support from trusted validators for two consecutive weeks; based on the current 35 validators, at least 29 must support it. The countdown for this feature was reset in September due to the support rate falling below the threshold.This feature allows enterprises to split permissions by function. Stablecoin issuers can authorize compliant accounts to approve new customers while keeping the master key offline. Authorized accounts use their own keys to sign and can only perform the granted operations; owners can change or revoke these permissions at any time. Each authorized account can receive up to 10 permissions, which limit the types of operations they can perform, rather than automatically setting spending limits. Banks have previously separated payment and compliance responsibilities at the employee level, and this upgrade enforces such division at the ledger level.According to a report shared by Evernorth, a subsidiary of XRP Treasury, the network held an average of $3.72 billion in tokenized assets and $539 million in Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin in the second quarter, totaling approximately $4.26 billion. Official guidance advises users not to delegate PaymentBurn permissions before separately fixing activation; this permission is intended for assistants to destroy tokens but, under certain conditions, also allows for the creation of new tokens. This warning pertains to tokens issued on the ledger rather than newly minted XRP.

first_img Before the merger of XRP Financial Company and Evernorth, Armada SPAC's stock price rose approximately 273% in a week

According to CoinDesk, Armada Acquisition Corp. II (XRPN) closed at $39.42 last Friday, up 68% on the day, and has risen approximately 273% over the week, reaching a high of $53 during intraday trading, compared to $10.58 a week ago, with a further pre-market increase of 9.5% on Monday. The company is the SPAC driving the listing of XRP treasury company Evernorth, which stated that the merger is expected to be completed on October 7 (Wednesday), pending the fulfillment of remaining conditions.Evernorth is expected to hold approximately 473 million XRP at the time of closing, valued at about $714 million based on Monday's price of approximately $1.51. Its disclosed financing includes about $300 million in total cash proceeds, of which $225 million comes from a private placement, $30 million from convertible notes, and $48 million from Armada's trust funds, with supporters also directly investing in XRP. However, the company purchased 84.4 million XRP for $214.1 million by the end of 2025, at an average price of approximately $2.54, which is now worth about $127 million.Armada Trust held $241.2 million at the end of June, with each public share redemption valued at approximately $10.49. Evernorth's announcement on October 1 indicated that about $48 million of the trust funds would be reserved for trading, suggesting that approximately 80% of the trust funds would be returned to shareholders. Redemptions will reduce the number of publicly tradable shares, allowing relatively small orders to significantly drive up the stock price.
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