Why Ripple’s new treasury platform favors RLUSD over XRP

Ripple has pushed deeper into corporate finance with a new treasury platform that aims to let finance teams manage cash and digital assets in one system.

The product, called Ripple Treasury, is built on treasury management software Ripple acquired in October 2025 when it bought GTreasury in a $1 billion deal.

The new move represents a strategic bet that could boost the day-to-day relevance of its RLUSD stablecoin while reopening a long-standing question for institutional users: whether XRP still needs to sit in the middle of payment flows.

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Why treasury and why now

The logic behind the launch addresses a specific pain point in modern corporate finance: fragmentation.

Global cash is increasingly scattered across disparate accounts and jurisdictions, while settlement expectations are shifting toward near-real-time speeds.

Furthermore, higher interest rates have increased the opportunity cost of idle capital, making precise intraday cash positioning more valuable for multinational firms.

In GTreasury’s product framing, the new platform offers “real-time cash positions” and “automated forecasting,” alongside “seamless reporting” spanning traditional cash, digital assets, RLUSD, and XRP holdings.

It also promises automated reconciliation and audit trails, features that are often the primary barrier to corporate crypto adoption.

This means that Ripple is effectively attempting to become a “treasury OS” that routes liquidity across 13,000 banks.

If successful, this strategy could insulate Ripple from the commoditization of payments infrastructure by owning the interface where routing decisions are made.

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RLUSD is the clearest winner

The most direct beneficiary of this integration is RLUSD, Ripple’s stablecoin.

The platform explicitly embeds the token into the tools controlling settlement, with launch materials describing cross-border settlement in RLUSD and referencing “3–5 second settlement using digital assets as bridge currency.”

This approach treats the stablecoin as a functional component of a software suite rather than just a trading instrument.

Notably, RLUSD has grown large enough that this enterprise integration could move the needle on usage. According to CryptoSlate’s data, RLUSD’s total circulating supply stands at over $1.4 billion as of press time, backed by $1.4733 billion in reserve funds.

However, on-chain analytics from RWA.xyz indicate that the asset’s monthly transfer volume has declined by roughly 16.5% over the last 30 days to $3.59 billion.

The juxtaposition of rising market cap and uneven transfer volume sets up a clear test for the new treasury platform.

If Ripple Treasury succeeds in integrating RLUSD into real corporate workflows, one would expect to see sustained transfer activity and a shift in counterparties using the token for settlement rather than solely for exchange liquidity.

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XRPL faces a potential tailwind

For the XRP Ledger (XRPL), the impact hinges on where flows settle.

Data from RWA.xyz separately shows the XRPL stablecoin market cap at $395.77 million and the stablecoin 30-day transfer volume at $809.81 million.

This is up 33.53% over 30 days, suggesting activity is already rising before any measurable treasury platform effect shows up in on-chain data.

However, a key caveat for XRPL holders is that RLUSD is not fully on the ledger today. XRPSCAN’s token data shows RLUSD supply on XRPL at about $338.0 million with roughly 37,261 holders.

This means only about 24% of Ripple’s reported $1.41 billion circulating RLUSD appears to be issued on XRPL, with the remainder on Ethereum.

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