With DTCC starting limited trading in July and going full scale in October 2026.
DTCC has made the roles and importance of these five networks clear.
$XRP and $XDC Network are the primary assets for settlement, while $LINK, $QNT and $HBAR provide the "piping" to make it happen.
XRP:
Leads for high-liquidity bank-to-bank settlement. In March 2026, Ripple Prime (formerly Hidden Road) was officially named a participant in the DTCC’s NSCC directory, specifically to facilitate institutional post-trade settlement using XRP as a bridge asset.
XDC:
Dominates in trade finance settlement. It is the primary rail for tokenized bills of lading and letters of credit, achieving under-2-second finality. Its 2026 growth is driven by its Contour acquisition, which integrated thousands of trade finance users directly onto the XDC rail.
QNT:
Focuses on CBDC-to-commercial bank settlement. Its Overledger platform allows central banks (like the Bank of England) to settle tokenized liabilities using regulated "locked" digital currencies rather than open-market bridge assets.
Chainlink and HBAR however, currently hold the deepest structural integrations within the traditional financial bank systems.
LINK:
The most integrated data and messaging layer. By 2026, Chainlink has moved into full production with the DTCC, Swift, and Euroclear to automate $58 billion in annual corporate actions (dividends, splits). It uses its CCIP and Runtime Environment (CRE) to link existing Swift messages directly to the DTCC's private blockchain nodes.
HBAR:
Holds a governance-level integration. As a member of the Linux Foundation's Decentralized Trust alongside the DTCC, Hedera is the preferred public chain for "RWA" (Real-World Asset) notary services. Its Governing Council members, including Google, IBM, and Standard Bank - use the network to track the lifecycle of assets that the DTCC eventually clears.
QNT:
Deeply embedded via the Murex partnership. Murex's MX.3 platform, used by 60,000+ traders daily - now has native Overledger integration, allowing banks to "switch on" blockchain features within their existing trading terminals.
With this cleared out, we now know the importance of these networks within DTCC’s Financial Infrastructure.
DTCC Just announced they will start limited trading of Tokenized Securities in July.
DTCC is THE US 🇺🇸 Financial infrastructure provider that is backing - or partnering with projects like
$LINK, $XRP, $HBAR, $QNT and $XDC
This will be HUGE for these networks.
🗓️Been an incredible past week
$QNT
• Project Agora references
• Launch of Overledger Fusion
$XLM
• Selected by DTCC for tokenization
• MGUSD launch with Stripe issuance
$HBAR
• Finalist for 2 Future of Finance awards
• Launches Asseto for institutional RWAs
$XRP
• Mastercard settlement for RLUSD
• Ripple Prime used by CME Group
‼️OFFICIAL DTCC PARTICIPANT LIST REVEALS RIPPLE PRIME NOW OPERATES ALONGSIDE WALL STREET GIANTS‼️
This internal DTCC document confirms Ripple is now in direct company with the biggest names in finance.🙇♂️
Hidden Road, operating as Ripple Prime, appears on the list alongside J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Citi, Charles Schwab, HSBC, Deutsche Bank, and many other dominant players.🔥
These are the firms that form the backbone of U.S. securities clearing and settlement.🔒
They manage trillions in daily volume across equities, fixed income, repo, and financing operations through the DTCC’s infrastructure.
And now a Ripple-controlled entity has been granted the same operational access as these finance giants.💯
This is rare for a crypto firm.
Ripple Prime’s inclusion puts a crypto-native prime broker inside the post-trade backbone responsible for quadrillions in annual U.S. market activity.📈
Institutional clients can now execute, clear, and settle traditional securities through a platform rooted in Ripple technology.🎯
This is the path for XRP to truly reach quadrillions in scale through regulated, high-volume channels.😏💨
Documented.📝👇
XDC Network 🤝 DTCC
Recently, London Summit showed $XDC Network sitting at the table with the DTCC (and BlackRock).
XDC Network, alongside $XRP and $XLM, is a settlement network for R3’s Corda; the underlying technology that has been chosen back in 2022, to activate one of the largest financial DLT infrastructures (for the DTCC).
By utilizing the XDC Network, institutions can settle debt obligations on-chain. This is powered by ISO 20022 financial messaging and US+ by Fluent, the most secure, regulated stablecoin in the industry.
Which coincides with DTCC’s regulatory aim for private - and instant settlements (T+0).
$ALGO and $IOTA should’ve also been mentioned.
I think that what we’re going to see is not only a utility cycle; but real alignment of these utilities. With the market pushing towards ISO-standards in 2026 and crypto preparing for Post-Quantum technology these networks could be finally getting prioritized.
The Bank of England’s DLT Innovation Challenge report noted that no DLT model achieves fast, deterministic finality without trade-offs.
Hedera was designed specifically for that challenge, combining deterministic finality, ABFT security, and decentralisation through a governed model built for institutional trust and resilience.
As wholesale finance evolves, those design choices matter more than ever.
$HBAR is the only network with the combination of consensus (aBFT) and encryption (SHA-384) that makes protection of “top-secret information” possible.
Hence it enterprise-grade security.
@WISeKey working with @SpaceX
has already deployed SEALCOIN into space;
to secure connectivity “protected” by post-quantum “cryptography” across critical sectors
“including defense…”
Powered by Hedera.
$HBAR
$HBAR is the only network with the combination of consensus (aBFT) and encryption (SHA-384) that makes protection of “top-secret information” possible.
Hence it enterprise-grade security.
$HBAR is the only network with the combination of consensus (aBFT) and encryption (SHA-384) that makes protection of “top-secret information” possible.
Hence it enterprise-grade security.
@HBAR_Lyfe1@hedera Hear me out.. I think it might has something to do with SpaceXs Starlink (tied to NASA) developing a space-based military data network. “Coincidentally” this situation came after that announcement.
@HBAR_Lyfe1@hedera Hear me out.. I think it might has something to do with SpaceXs Starlink (tied to NASA) developing a space-based military data network. “Coincidentally” this situation came after that announcement.
🇦🇺 Australia is running live tests with central bank money.
Hedera. Ripple. Chainlink. Hashgraph.
ANZ. CBA. NAB. Westpac. RBA.
Integration into the financial system isn't coming.
It's already here.
$HBAR $XRP $LINK $RLUSD