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Ripple Prime adds RWA swaps referencing perpetual futures listed on Hyperliquid

Ripple Prime has added RWA perpetual swaps tied to equities, ETFs, metals, energy and currencies, with 24/7 trading and settlement.

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What happened

Ripple Prime has added RWA perpetual swaps tied to equities, ETFs, metals, energy and currencies, with 24/7 trading and settlement.

Reported details

  • TL;DR: Ripple Prime enabled institutional perpetual swaps across more than 100 traditional benchmark markets on October 15, 2026. The operation acts as principal and references Trade.xyz contracts executed on the decentralized protocol Hyperliquid. The service operates under a Credit Intermediation Vehicle license in the British Virgin Islands with continuous cross-margining. Institutional brokerage arm Ripple Prime …

Why this matters

Ripple Prime is a factual update rather than a structural change to tokenized assets. Its value to a desk is the sourced detail and the timing, so read it next to the linked reporting and treat any figure the sources do not state as unknown.

Evidence boundary

The scope is limited to what the linked reports state, and where two of them diverge both positions are recorded without either being picked in advance.

What to verify

Corroborate Ripple Prime with one independent dated source, and treat any figure the linked reports do not state as unknown rather than inferred.

Sources and editorial check time

This information is educational and is not financial, legal, or tax advice.

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