By Isaac • October 15, 2026 11:08 am •
Ripple is pushing its institutional trading business deeper into the territory where traditional markets and crypto infrastructure overlap.
Ripple Prime has launched support for real-world-asset perpetual swaps tied to more than 100 reference markets. The lineup spans equities, stock indexes, exchange-traded funds, metals, energy and foreign exchange, giving qualified institutional clients a way to maintain exposure around the clock instead of being limited to the trading hours of the underlying cash markets.
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According to Ripple’s launch announcement, clients including Virtu are already trading the product. Ripple Prime acts as principal in the client-facing swaps, while the contracts reference perpetual futures listed by Trade.xyz on Hyperliquid.
That structure connects an institutional prime-brokerage relationship to markets built on
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