• Evernorth Holdings purchased roughly 388.7 million XRP at a median value of US$2.44, accumulating roughly 95% of its goal.
  • The corporate goals to supply institutional and retail traders with regulated, liquid XRP publicity.
  • In the meantime, the REX-Osprey XRP ETF (XRPR) launched efficiently with over US$100 million in web inflows inside six weeks, utilizing a hybrid mannequin construction that expedited regulatory approval.
  • Different XRP ETF purposes stay on maintain attributable to SEC emergency operations through the US Authorities shutdown, whereas a Solana ETF outperformed XRPR’s first-day buying and selling figures.

As reported final week, Evernorth Holdings has made strikes on its XRP treasury concept. Simply days after saying it might merge with Nasdaq-listed SPAC Armada Acquisition Corp II – which can commerce underneath the ticker XRPN in early 2026 – the corporate has already purchased XRP.

And it’s made nice progress: the corporate has bought 95% of its US$1 billion (AU$1.5 billion) goal. In line with CryptoQuant, Evernorth Holdings purchased 388,710,606.03 XRP at a median value of US$2.44 (AU$3.70), making the acquisition value roughly US$948,453,878.71 (AU$1.43 billion).

CEO Asheesh Birla, who beforehand labored for Ripple, mentioned the objective is to offer “institutional and public traders easy, regulated, liquid publicity to XRP.” The mission is supported by Ripple, SBI Group, Kraken, Pantera Capital and Arrington Capital.

XRP has posted weekly beneficial properties of 8%, outpacing different top-ten cryptos. On the time of writing, the third-largest crypto – excluding stablecoins – was buying and selling at US$2.62 (AU$3.97).

Weekly XRP chart, supply: CoinMarketCap

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New XRP ETFs on Maintain as First Fund Receives Tens of millions

In the meantime, purposes for XRP exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are on maintain because the US Securities and Trade Fee (SEC) operates at emergency capacity amid the continuing US authorities shutdown.

Nevertheless, one XRP spot ETF is already reside: the REX-Osprey XRP ETF (XRPR). In line with REX Shares, the fund noticed over US$100 million (AU$151 million) in web inflows inside its first six weeks of buying and selling.

XRPR does present spot publicity to XRP by holding the underlying crypto (or equal publicity) by a regulated ETF wrapper. Nevertheless, it isn’t a “pure spot” construction – it makes use of a hybrid mannequin, with not less than 80% of its web belongings invested in XRP or different belongings offering publicity to the “reference asset”.

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Spectacular Flows Into ETF, However Competitor Beats XRPR

XRPR reached the market forward of many others through the use of a regulatory construction (the 1940 Act) that allowed a quicker launch and inbuilt safeguards – corresponding to its hybrid holdings – probably decreasing regulatory friction.

Whereas its first-day buying and selling quantity was spectacular at US$35 million (AU$53 million), the crown for the best-starting ETF of 2025 goes to a Solana ETF. BSOL amassed US$56 million (AU$85.8 million) on its first buying and selling day, outshining all different ETFs – not simply crypto funds.

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