Licuido Secures Ripple Investment to Scale XRPL Collateral Platform

Editorial Calendar World-Region-Country Licuido Secures Ripple Investment to Scale XRPL Collateral Platform The company’s proposition targets a structural inefficiency that has persisted across traditional capital markets: the roughly ten trillion dollars in assets held in global money market funds that remain effectively immobilised between transactions. Licuido says its platform allows institutional issuers to tokenise fund units and then trade the resulting instruments as collateral on a secondary market, within a regulated and confidential environment. The FCA-regulated status of the trading platform is a meaningful distinction in a market where many tokenisation projects have yet to obtain domestic regulatory approvals.

Brian Lynch, chief executive and co-founder of Licuido, said the investment enables the company to push further into the post-issuance layer of digital capital markets. “Tokenization, by itself, only solves part of the challenge of unlocking liquidity,” he said. “Licuido’s platform allows clients to take the next step by delivering issuance, distribution and utility, within a controlled, confidential, and regulated digital capital markets platform.” The announcement does not include a post-investment valuation, a funding quantum, or details of the equity or commercial structure underlying the deal.

Ripple’s investment continues its broader strategy of building out the XRPL as an institutional-grade settlement and tokenisation rail, competing with Ethereum-based platforms and proprietary ledgers from established custodians and exchanges. Several major financial institutions, includingJPMorganthrough itsOnyxnetwork andHSBCthrough its Orion platform, have developed in-house tokenisation infrastructure, while dedicated providers such asSecuritize,TokenyandOpenEdenare pursuing similar collateral mobility models with different regulatory footprints and chain choices. The regulatory environment is sharpening around this segment.

In the UK, the FCA’s digital securities sandbox, launched under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2023, is designed to allow firms to test tokenised asset trading within a controlled legal perimeter. Licuido’s existing FCA-regulated status gives it a credible starting point, though the sandbox