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It's final. $CPOOL becomes $CLEAR @ClearpoolFin

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Votes so far 100% for the migration. If you don't get it why this is good, I advise you to sell all your tokens right now.

ethereum:0x66761fa41377003622aee3c7675fc7b5c1c2fac5 $CLEAR 🚀
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[Clearpool @ClearpoolFin]

🖊️ The CPOOL → CLEAR governance vote is now LIVE on Snapshot, open for one week. This is the vote on the token migration from CPOOL to CLEAR.

Full proposal: https://t.co/tk1qPHXYld
Cast your vote here: https://t.co/wRYxIumcER

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@reqzy_471 Fresh new start... and chart. $CLEAR

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$CPOOL : Review 📜

What if a lending protocol decided its future was not on Ethereum at all, but inside the ledger that banks already use to move money?

Meet Clearpool, the credit marketplace where institutions borrow stablecoins without collateral, and which is now asking holders to approve a move onto the XRP Ledger, a new ticker, and a bigger supply to pay for it. The vote opens on 25 September.

Let's explore a protocol betting its token on a second act. 👇

⚪ Clearpool at a Glance

Marketplace Insight: Clearpool occupies the hardest corner of on-chain credit, lending without collateral to institutions, and its counterparty list is the strongest evidence the model works, with Jane Street, Wintermute, Flow Traders, and CoinShares all having borrowed. The bet now is that the next growth market is regulated-stablecoin private credit on the XRP Ledger, with Ripple putting capital in as a limited partner and Cicada Partners handling underwriting. The clean contrast is the gap between the story and the balance sheet. Lifetime originations near a billion dollars sit against roughly $30 million in current TVL, and the protocol is asking holders to accept dilution because its treasury has run dry.

⚪ Mission

Clearpool exists to bring the mechanics of traditional credit markets on-chain without importing their gatekeeping. The argument is that overcollateralised DeFi lending is useless to institutions, since posting $150 to borrow $100 defeats the purpose of borrowing, while centralised lenders removed collateral and reintroduced opaque counterparty risk with no tools for lenders to manage it. Single-borrower pools with market-driven rates and tokenised LP positions are the answer: unsecured credit with transparent pricing and a claim that can itself be traded or hedged.

🔵 A Brief History

Clearpool was founded by Jakob Kronbichler, Alessio Quaglini, and Robert Alcorn, a group with genuine institutional credit background. Alcorn, the founding CEO, had been Executive Director and Head of Repo Trading for APAC at First Abu Dhabi Bank, which is close to the traditional-finance analogue of what Clearpool built. The whitepaper published in October 2021 and the protocol went live in March 2022, introducing permissionless single-borrower pools where whitelisted institutions competed for uncollateralised liquidity and rates moved with utilisation.

The backer list reflected the ambition: Sequoia Capital India, Arrington Capital, Sino Global Capital, HashKey, GBV Capital, Huobi Ventures, Hex Trust, and Wintermute, which was both an investor and a borrower.
Loan originations compounded steadily, passing $620 million by late 2024 and crossing $950 million by August 2026, with borrowers spanning Jane Street, Flow Traders, Fasanara Digital, and CoinShares. The product line widened well past the original pools into Prime for vetted institutional lending, Dynamic Pools, Fintech Vaults, RLOC revolving credit lines, PayFi Vaults, and a USDX Treasury Pool.

The strategic detour was Ozean. Announced in October 2024 with Hex Trust and backed by Optimism, it was an OP Stack Layer 2 built with Caldera and pitched as the home for RWA yield, with a rebasing stablecoin in ozUSD and an on-chain RWA exchange-traded pool in Ozean Port. A Poseidon testnet went live in December 2024 with mainnet targeted for the end of 2025. It never shipped, and Ozean is now absent from the 2026 roadmap, the website, and DefiLlama, with no formal cancellation announced.

2026 brought the pivot that matters. March added an RLOC Vaults upgrade automatically deploying idle borrower capital, followed by Solana deployment and an XDC Network validator partnership. Then in late August, Ripple, Cicada Partners, and Clearpool announced an institutional credit fund lending RLUSD, Ripple's NYDFS-regulated dollar stablecoin, to fintech and payments firms for working capital, settled on the XRP Ledger. Clearpool supplies the lending and vault infrastructure, Cicada handles origination, underwriting, covenants, and servicing with over $860 million underwritten historically, and Ripple participates as a limited partner on the same terms as others rather than as a first-loss backstop. The loans depend on two XRPL amendments, XLS-65 Single Asset Vaults and XLS-66 Lending Protocol, neither of which is live on mainnet, with Clearpool building on DevNet and Hex Trust providing custody.

On 11 September the team published the CLEAR governance proposal, asking holders to approve XRPL expansion, a 1:1 migration from CPOOL to a new CLEAR token, and a treasury recapitalisation. The stated reason is blunt: roughly 99% of CPOOL has already vested and growth reserves are exhausted. Supply would rise from 1 billion to 1.125 billion at migration, with 70% to existing holders fully unlocked, 15% to treasury and partnerships, 10% to ecosystem incentives, and 5% to contributors on a twelve-month cliff, trending toward roughly 1.43 billion over three years. The pitched offset is 50% of protocol fees funding open-market buybacks and permanent burns. Snapshot voting opens 25 September and closes 2 October, with the EVM marketplace continuing to run alongside.

🔵 Ecosystem Narrative

The organizing idea is that institutions need credit priced by a market rather than rationed by a committee.

➛ Single-borrower pools. Whitelisted institutions open their own liquidity pools and compete for capital, with interest rates moving continuously on utilisation rather than being set administratively, so pricing reflects actual demand.

➛ Uncollateralised by design. Borrowers post no collateral, which is what makes the product usable for trading firms and market makers whose capital cannot sit idle, and which is also why borrower vetting carries the entire risk.

➛ The RLUSD credit fund. Working-capital lending to fintech and payments firms in Ripple's NYDFS-regulated stablecoin, with Cicada underwriting against real receivables rather than crypto collateral, and Ripple committing capital as a limited partner alongside other investors.

➛ Lending as a ledger primitive. The XRPL approach puts issuance, repayment, and accounting into the ledger itself through XLS-65 and XLS-66 rather than into smart contracts, which the team argues is structurally better suited to credit than an EVM deployment.

➛ The institutional product suite. Prime for vetted lending, RLOC revolving credit lines with automatic deployment of idle capital, Fintech Vaults, PayFi Vaults for stablecoin payment credit, and a USDX Treasury Pool.

➛ Custody-anchored infrastructure. The post-Ozean strategy leans on Hex Trust's regulated custody rather than a proprietary chain, a narrower but considerably cheaper path to institutional trust.

⚪ Token Utilities

$CPOOL is a utility and governance token wired into how pools operate.

➛ Borrower staking: institutions must stake CPOOL to launch a pool, tying access to the token directly.

➛ LP rewards: lenders earn CPOOL on top of stablecoin interest, which is how the protocol bootstraps liquidity.

➛ Oracle governance: holders delegate to oracles that set interest rate curve parameters, with rewards distributed proportionally to voting power.
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➛ Proposed under CLEAR: 50% of protocol fees directed to open-market buybacks and permanent burns, replacing the current insurance-funded mechanism.

⚪ Key Features

➛ Uncollateralised institutional borrowing with market-driven rates.

➛ Roughly $965 million in lifetime originations with named counterparties including Jane Street and Wintermute.

➛ Tokenised lender positions through cpTokens.

➛ An RLUSD credit fund with Ripple as limited partner and Cicada as underwriter.

➛ A proposed migration to XRPL, where lending would be a ledger primitive rather than contract logic.

➛ Audits from three named firms across 2025.

🔵 Meet the Team

Clearpool's founders came out of institutional credit rather than crypto, which shows in a product built around how repo desks actually work.

▶️ Core Members:

➛ Jakob Kronbichler [ @JKronbichler ] - Co-Founder and CEO | Previously Commercial Director at Aspire, he has moved from the commercial seat into leading the company, and is the most publicly visible founder, fronting the RLUSD flywheel argument and the borrower and partnership pipeline behind the Ripple, Cicada, and Plasma work.

➛ Alessio Quaglini [ @onchainpanini ] - Co-Founder | Co-founded the protocol alongside Kronbichler and Alcorn, and brings the custody-side relationship that has anchored Clearpool's institutional infrastructure through Hex Trust.

➛ Sam Ameen [ @Sam_Ameen ] - Chief of Marketing | Runs marketing and communications, the function carrying a genuinely complicated pitch, uncollateralised institutional credit on a ledger most of DeFi does not use, out to holders being asked to vote on a migration.

➛ Vadim Zolotokrylin - Advisor | Previously product owner from the protocol's earliest days, now advising, giving the team continuity back to the original single-borrower pool design.

➛ Founding note | Robert Alcorn, the founding CEO, spent his career as Executive Director and Head of Repo Trading for APAC at First Abu Dhabi Bank, and that background shaped the protocol's focus on rate mechanics and counterparty vetting rather than yield farming.

➛ Backers | Sequoia Capital India, Arrington Capital, Sino Global Capital, HashKey, GBV Capital, Huobi Ventures, Hex Trust, and Wintermute, which invested and borrowed.

🔵 Ratings

➛ Use Case: ★★★★ (4/5). Clearpool solves a real problem with verifiable traction. Roughly $965 million in lifetime originations with counterparties including Jane Street, Wintermute, Flow Traders, Fasanara, and CoinShares is institutional adoption most DeFi protocols never approach, and uncollateralised lending is genuinely the version institutions can use. The RLUSD fund with Ripple and Cicada is the most serious stack the protocol has assembled, pairing a regulated stablecoin with an underwriter carrying $860 million of history. The 1-point deduction is that almost nothing is live. XLS-65 and XLS-66 remain unapproved XRPL amendments with Clearpool building on DevNet, the RLUSD fund has no confirmed live vaults, Ozean was marketed for eighteen months before quietly disappearing, and current TVL near $30 million sits well below what the lifetime origination figure implies about present scale.

➛ Tokenomics: ★★★⯪ (3.5/5). The current structure is clean, with a 1 billion maximum essentially fully circulating and genuine utility in borrower staking, LP rewards, and oracle delegation. The CLEAR proposal is handled better than most recapitalisations: holders vote rather than a foundation deciding, 70% goes to existing holders fully unlocked at migration, allocation tables are published, and the pitched 50% of protocol fees to open-market buybacks and permanent burns is a materially stronger accrual design than the current insurance-funded mechanism that moves nothing. The 1.5-point deduction is the arithmetic behind it. Supply rises to 1.125 billion at migration and toward 1.43 billion over three years, roughly 43% dilution, and the stated reason is that growth reserves are exhausted. A protocol with around $30 million TVL and $10 million in lifetime interest does not obviously generate the fee revenue needed to burn that back. Good design, thin financial base.

➛ Audits: ★★★★ (4/5). Clearpool's security stack is solid and named. Contracts across the newer product lines were audited by Hacken in February 2025, Cantina in May 2025, and Halborn during 2025, three distinct firms covering an expanding suite rather than a single engagement at launch. The protocol has operated since March 2022 through a full cycle including the 2022 credit contagion without a headline smart contract exploit. The 1-point deduction is that no verified top-tier security score or formal verification is published, and the real risk in this protocol sits outside the contracts entirely, in borrower creditworthiness, since lenders hold unsecured claims that no audit can protect.

➛ Community: ★★★⯪ (3.5/5). Clearpool's meaningful constituency is institutional rather than retail, and there it is genuinely strong, with a borrower roster of recognisable trading firms and an investor base spanning Sequoia Capital India, HashKey, and Wintermute. The CLEAR proposal has been run properly, with a forum discussion opened two weeks before the vote, clear instructions on self-custody requirements, and published allocation tables, which is better governance practice than most recapitalisations get. The 1.5-point deduction is retail depth. A rank near #597, a token down roughly 99% from its high, and volume figures that diverge by two orders of magnitude across trackers point to thin and inconsistent market interest, and coverage of the XRPL pivot remains confined largely to XRP and RWA circles.

🔵 Conclusion

Clearpool has done the unglamorous version of institutional DeFi properly. Roughly $965 million in lifetime originations, borrowers including Jane Street, Wintermute, Flow Traders, and CoinShares, founders who came out of repo trading and institutional custody, and a product suite that grew from single-borrower pools into revolving credit lines and payment financing. The Ripple and Cicada partnership around RLUSD credit is the most serious institutional stack the protocol has assembled.

The risks are worth naming. Lending here is unsecured, so borrower quality is the only protection lenders have. Ozean was marketed as a flagship for eighteen months and then vanished from the roadmap without a word. Current TVL near $30 million is far below what the headline origination figure suggests, the XRPL amendments the whole thesis depends on are not live, and the token is down roughly 99% from its peak. Most immediately, holders are being asked to accept 43% dilution over three years because the treasury ran out.

But the bull case is specific. If regulated stablecoin credit is where institutional lending actually lands, Clearpool has the underwriting partner, the custody, the Ripple relationship, and four years of surviving a credit cycle that killed most of its peers.

Clearpool built the lending business. Whether holders should fund its second act is what the next week decides.

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📈 Always nice waking up like this $CPOOL

[Clearpool @ClearpoolFin]

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@jeffhenson010 @chooserich @CryptoWizardd @Nebraskangooner @ClearpoolFin This won't age well.

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It's time. You sold?
@chooserich is laughing at all of you.
$CPOOL

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@jeffhenson010 @chooserich @CryptoWizardd @Nebraskangooner Always believe in yourself ;)

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@u7BSfpyov4zymjB @ClearpoolFin sell here

[Clearpool @ClearpoolFin]

Most on-chain yield fades when the market turns. Institutional lending on the XRP Ledger compounds instead. Every loan is drawn and settled in RLUSD on XRPL, and that turns into a flywheel. 🧵

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1.7B CPOOL in <20hrs feels unreal after months of sleepy PA. Market makers preparing for something. Clarity act tomorrow. What will it bring for $CPOOL x $XRP @XRPLF @ClearpoolFin

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📈 @Official_Upbit casually trading 1B $CPOOL in 24h. That's 80x the volume last week.
Something cooking 🤨 @ClearpoolFin

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@JanvdMarel1 @Sriniva97094968 @ClearpoolFin Luckily it didn't

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📈 @Official_Upbit casually trading 1B $CPOOL in 24h. That's 80x the volume last week.
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