OpenEden, a tokenization platform, has launched tokenized United States Treasury bills (T-bills) on the XRP Ledger (XRPL).
According to a Ripple press release, the platform’s TBILL tokens are backed by short-term US government T-bills and reverse repurchase agreements collateralized by US Treasurys.
Minters of the tokens will be subject to Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) screening to ensure security and regulatory compliance measures are maintained.
This marks the first time a traditional finance (TradFi) instrument has been made available on a decentralized platform.
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Tokenized T-bills
The press release explains that the tokenized T-bills on the XRPL demonstrate “how institutional access to decentralized finance (DeFi)” is being driven by the tokenization of real-world assets (RWAs).
Markus Infanger, senior vice president of RippleX, explained that the tokenized T-bills represent an example of how RWAs are being tokenized “to drive utility and new opportunities.
“Institutions are increasingly looking at where to tokenize their real-world assets, and the arrival of T-bills on the XRPL powered by OpenEden reinforces the decentralized layer-1 blockchain.”
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Ripple invests $10 million
OpenEden’s initiative attracted significant support from Ripple, which invested $10 million in the decentralized platform’s TBILL tokens and future tokenization efforts.
Ripple’s investment is part of a broader strategy to support the tokenization of TradFi assets on the XRPL, a ledger built “to power institutional-grade financial use cases.”
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$600 million XRP set to unlock in August
In similar news, a total of $1.5 billion in tokens are set to be unlocked in August, including $609 million in Ripple’s XRP tokens.
Despite unlocking 1 billion tokens on the first day of each month since 2017, Ripple may be considering re-locking much of its newly released XRP.
This can be seen when Ripple relocked 800 million XRP from June 1 unlock, but it sold off around 300 million XRP, currently worth roughly $182.5 million.
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