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On Feb. 12, RippleX, Ripple’s development arm, announced that Token Escrow is now live on the XRP Ledger’s (XRPL) mainnet. The change, labeled Token Escrow (XLS-85), extends conditional locking and release to trustline-based tokens (IOUs) and Multi-Purpose Tokens (MPTs). This expands the network’s escrow function beyond XRP to cover issued assets used for stablecoins and tokenized instruments. The upgrade lands as stablecoins continue to expand as crypto’s most established product line. CryptoSlate’s data show that the total circulating supply of these assets is hovering around $308 billion and continues to rise week over week. At the same time, tokenized real-world assets are also scaling in parallel. Data from RWA.xyz show that tokenized US Treasuries are valued at roughly $10 billion on public chains, with tens of billions more across categories such as private credit and commodities. For XRPL, that market context is the point. The new feature is less about adding another optional tool for developers and more about introducing an on-chain settlement primitive that institutions can use to move assets only after conditions are met. Escrow expands beyond XRP, but issuers keep the controls XRPL has supported escrow for years, but the feature historically applied only to XRP. Token Escrow broadens that scope to issued tokens, which is where most institution-facing use cases sit. On XRPL, stablecoins, tokenized Treasuries, and other tokenized instruments are generally not recognized as native coins. Instead, they are seen as issued assets. XRPL documentation makes the issuer control model explicit. Token escrow is permissioned at the issuer and token levels and is not automatically available for every asset issued on the network. For trustline tokens, issuers must enable an “Allow Trust Line Locking” flag before escrow can be used with that issuance. For MPTs, issuers must enable “Can Escrow” (and related flags) for an…

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