The post XRP Ledger’s 2025 roadmap focuses on institutional DeFi and compliance upgrades appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.

Ripple Labs has unveiled its roadmap for its XRP Ledger (XRPL) in 2025 to outline potential improvements to the blockchain network. The company revealed this in its XRPL Insights before the Apex conference, which is set for June. According to the blog post, several new features are coming to XRPL in 2025 that will make the network more regulatory compliant while expanding its capabilities. The firm expects these improvements to improve Institutional DeFi adoption on the network. Ripple wrote: These changes will enable institutions to meet regulatory requirements, offer new lending options, and give developers more flexibility to build and deploy financial applications. One major planned development for the XRPL is to improve its Decentralized Identity (DID) standard by adding the Credentials standard. The planned development is going through an amendment voting process and will be included in the Ripple 2.3.0 release. With this, XRPL will have Permissioned DEX and Permissioned Domain features for institutions seeking to build compliant products on the network. According to the firm, Permissioned Domains will enable financial institutions to create platforms and products on XRPL that can only be accessible by those with credentials. This ensures that Know Your Customer (KYC) standards are met while preserving privacy. The Permisioned DEX relies on the same decentralized identity stack but focuses on enabling decentralized trading, which is accessible to only accounts with valid credentials. This way, institutions can also participate in DeFi activity while meeting compliance standards. Meanwhile,  XRPL plans to introduce a new token standard with the Multi-Purpose Token (MPT). This new standard will be a semi-fungible token that allows metadata attachment and is designed to serve real-world assets (RWA) tokenization purposes. It said: “MPT introduces a more flexible, efficient, and metadata-rich token standard that allows institutions to tokenize and trade bonds, RWAs, and structured financial…

---

Filed under: News - @ February 26, 2025 6:18 pm