The integration lays the groundwork for private, compliant financial applications on Ripple’s Layer 1 blockchain.
Boundless, a zero-knowledge (ZK) proving network originally launched by RISC Zero, has integrated with the XRP Ledger (XRPL), bringing native ZK proof verification to the Layer 1 blockchain for the first time.
The integration is designed to enable institutions to build financial applications on XRPL that can execute privately while maintaining regulatory compliance, according to the announcement.
XRPL is a public, open-source blockchain built for payments and tokenized finance. The network has attracted more than $550 million in ecosystem funding and counts SBI Holdings, Zand Bank, Archax, and Guggenheim Treasury Services among its institutional users.
Despite the institutional foothold, on-chain transparency has remained a barrier to deeper adoption. Transaction flows, treasury strategies, and counterparty relationships are visible by default on public ledgers, creating competitive risks and compliance friction. Ripple CTO David Schwartz acknowledged as much last year, noting that even Ripple itself could not use the XRPL DEX for payments due to compliance constraints around anonymous liquidity providers.
Emiliano Bonassi, VP of Engineering at Boundless, said the integration covers use cases from stablecoin payments to DeFi flows.
“Boundless brings scalable confidential compute directly to the XRPL ecosystem,” Bonassi told The Defiant. “Institutions can settle on XRPL with ZK proofs and cryptographic attestations for compliance and privacy-preserving logic, such as sanction screening to KYC/KYT/KYB. No trust assumptions, no data exposure, and full control over what gets disclosed and to whom.”
The privacy layer arrives as XRPL continues to expand its institutional network. Ripple teased major XRPL upgrades in February aimed at broadening XRP’s utility beyond payments into stablecoin settlement, tokenized assets, and lending. In November, Ripple partnered with Mastercard and WebBank to test RLUSD stablecoin card settlements on XRPL. And the network’s real-world asset push has accelerated, with Argentina’s YPF Luz launching an energy tokenization platform carrying over $800 million in tokenized assets on the ledger.
“XRPL has always been built for institutional finance. With Boundless, we are making confidential, compliant execution native infrastructure on XRPL, unlocking a new category of enterprise use cases,” said Odelia Torteman, Director of Corporate Adoption at XRPL Commons.
The integration reflects a broader industry shift toward privacy-first architecture powered by zero-knowledge proofs. At Ethereum’s DevConnect conference in Buenos Aires last November, ZK tooling emerged as a dominant theme, with Boundless among the projects highlighted for its work on ZK-powered cross-chain infrastructure. Proof systems have matured from experimental cryptography to what builders now consider core infrastructure for the next phase of institutional DeFi.
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