Overview
- The partnership, announced Sept. 1, 2026, connects Ripple Custody with SettleMint’s Digital Asset Lifecycle Platform so institutions can manage issuance, compliance, settlement and post‑issuance servicing from one interface.
- Ripple Custody is presented as an institutional self‑custody layer that supports hardware security modules, multi‑party computation for key management and industry certifications such as FIPS 140‑2 Level 4, ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II.
- SettleMint’s DALP serves as a governed control plane that handles investor eligibility, ownership records, corporate actions, transfers and other lifecycle operations for tokenized assets.
- The companies have begun offering the integrated product in Asia Pacific but disclosed no named customers, supported blockchains, pricing, contract values or firm production dates, and they did not require the XRP Ledger, XRP or RLUSD.
- The deal expands Ripple’s institutional stack after its Palisade acquisition and recent partnerships and could simplify tokenization projects for banks and asset managers, yet measurable market impact will depend on customer rollouts and local regulatory approvals.