Ripple President Monica Long recently shared a vision for the future of digital payments. “The future of payments will be multichain, interoperable, and built on institutional-grade blockchain infrastructure,” said the Ripple President.
Long was reacting to recent developments, including Ripple joining the Open USD stablecoin as a day-one integration partner, highlighting the company’s commitment to open, multichain infrastructure that supports institutional adoption across the digital asset ecosystem.
Open USD, a dollar-pegged stablecoin, was launched by a consortium of more than 140 financial and technology companies, including Visa, Mastercard, Stripe and Coinbase, on Tuesday.
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The roll call of backers resembles a cross-section of Wall Street and Silicon Valley. Ripple, BlackRock, BNY, Standard Chartered, Google and Shopify are all listed as founding partners.
With financial institutions showing growing interest in blockchain-based settlement and regulated stablecoins, Ripple President Long highlights the company’s long-term strategy for expanding the role of the XRP Ledger, XRP and RLUSD in institutional finance.
XRP, XRPL and RLUSD vision outlined
According to Long, Ripple‘s focus remains simple: to continue making the XRP Ledger the leading blockchain for institutional payments. This demonstrates that Ripple is positioning the XRP Ledger as infrastructure for institutions seeking blockchain-based settlement solutions.
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Ripple is also concentrating its efforts to make the XRP Ledger a natural home for the next generation of key regulated stablecoins while growing the utility and adoption of RLUSD and XRP globally.
Long’s comments show Ripple’s commitment to enhancing the real-world utility and adoption of XRP alongside RLUSD as institutional demand continues.
Ripple Prime processes over $3 trillion annually on behalf of over 300 institutional clients, according to Mike Higgins. During a recent discussion, the Ripple Prime CEO shared where the infrastructure is headed next in an effort to bring the prime brokerage and clearing layer directly onto the XRP Ledger.
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