Intesa Sanpaolo --> Ripple Custody
Italy’s largest banking group and a top-tier European financial institution, with a market cap of US $73 billion and US $1.011 trillion in assets as of 2025.
Headquartered in Turin, the bank serves 14 million Italian customers and 7.5 million international customers, focusing on retail, corporate, private banking, and wealth management.
INSIGHTS:
🇪🇺 The Digital Euro needs one thing above all else.
Interoperability. Between banks. Between blockchains. Between borders.
Quant Network's Overledger provides exactly that.
ECB selected Quant. Now European banks are integrating directly.
440 million potential users. One infrastructure layer.
The most important crypto projects are the ones nobody talks about.
Until suddenly everyone does.
$QNT is that project.
Act accordingly.
Last chance to register for the @Oracle AI World Tour London Executive Roundtable on Digital Assets Issuance and Custody, where our Founder and CEO, @gverdian, will be sharing insights from the UK Tokenised Sterling Deposits Pilot.
📍 Chartered Accountants Hall, London
🗓️ 25 March 2026, 12:30 – 3:30 PM
This industry roundtable aims to clarify the digital money journey, with industry examples, recommendations on business strategy, and phased implementation roadmap.
Register here: https://t.co/9w6lI0o0ey
#DigitalAssets #Stablecoins #TokenisedDeposits #TokenisedMoney
INSIGHTS:
🇪🇺 Quant is now powering the European Central Bank's digital euro.
2027 pilot. 2029 full launch.
440 million potential users. One infrastructure layer.
BlackRock chose Ethereum.
Ripple won Singapore's central bank.
Quant won the ECB.
Institutions are not experimenting anymore.
They're choosing winners.
Are you positioned in the right projects?
I’m delighted to announce that @quantnetwork and Murex are partnering to bring tokenised deposits and digital bond settlement into MX.3.
Institutions have been asking the same question. How do we move forward with tokenisation without disrupting the trading, risk and post-trade operations we depend on?
The answer is now inside the platform they already use.
Tokenised RWAs just crossed $100 billion. DTCC has SEC approval to tokenise real-world assets from mid-2026 and major UK banks are already working with Quant through the Great Britain Tokenised Deposit initiative - all of which signals that the market is moving.
Users in banks, asset managers, insurance companies, pension funds, hedge funds, corporations and energy utilities in over 65 countries now have a production-ready path into tokenisation through the systems they already run.
The future of capital markets infrastructure is programmable: https://t.co/RmT2yVJ4SH
#Tokenisation #DigitalAssets #CapitalMarkets #Programmability
10 years ago someone said they would create a global ISO standard for blockchain. Today in 2026, the ISO blockchain interoperability standard is officially published. The internet only exploded after standards were established. Blockchain is now standing at that same inflection point.
A decade in the making, we have published an ISO standard for blockchain interoperability.
This is a milestone I've been working towards since 2015, Remitt was founded with the conviction that blockchains could transform financial services but only if the industry solved interoperability and harmonised around global standards. Without that, blockchain would remain fragmented, siloed, and locked out of mainstream institutional adoption.
In April 2016, we published what was the world's first proposal for a blockchain standard (https://t.co/SL83Yl4Ejr) a bold move at a time when the industry was still largely focused on proofs of concept and competing protocol narratives, not standardisation.
The idea was simple but ambitious: if blockchains were going to serve global markets, they needed a common framework that transcended any single protocol or vendor.
Central to this thinking from the very beginning was the concept of a multi-gateway architecture, leveraging the know-how of 20 years of experience in cybersecurity to frame the principle that interoperability shouldn't depend on a single bridge or point-to-point connection, but on a layered gateway model that could abstract away the differences between underlying DLTs and connect them through a common interface. This was the architectural foundation of what would become Overledger, and it was also the design philosophy we brought to the standards process.
The belief was that a viable international standard for blockchain interoperability had to be protocol-agnostic and gateway-driven, enabling any DLT to communicate with any other DLT (any-to-any) and with existing networks, without requiring those ledgers to change how they operate. The standard and the technology were born from the same insight.
That same year, I worked closely with the team from @standardsaus (Standards Australia), who had the foresight in 2015 to champion the initiative at the international level. Together, we pushed for ISO to establish a dedicated Technical Committee for blockchain and not to be absorbed into an existing committee, but to stand on its own as a recognition that this technology warranted its own global standards programme. The industry demand was there, the use cases were multiplying, and the fragmentation was becoming a real barrier.
In September 2016, the New Work Item Proposal (NWIP) received global approval, and ISO formally gave the green light to establish a new Technical Committee (https://t.co/7biJjvHRk9). TC 307 — Blockchain and Electronic Distributed Ledger Technologies — was born (https://t.co/5SsFPIw0HH). The inaugural meeting was held in Sydney in April 2017, and from that moment the real work began.
As the standards work progressed internationally, the mission at Remitt was evolving too. What started as an effort to use blockchains for financial services and solve interoperability grew into something far larger, a full enterprise infrastructure platform for connecting any blockchain to any network. Remitt became Quant, and we built Overledger, the world's first blockchain operating system to deliver on that original vision. The multi-gateway architecture that informed the standards thinking became the core of Overledger's design: a technology layer that sits above all blockchains, providing institutions with a single integration point to access any DLT, any network, and any existing system. The interoperability challenge that drove the standards work was the same challenge we set out to solve commercially and the two efforts reinforced each other throughout.
For close to a decade since TC 307's formation, subject matter experts across the world have contributed their time and expertise to Working Group 7 — Interoperability is the committee I chair.
International standards are not built quickly they are built through consensus, technical debate, and relentless refinement. The same methodology and rigour that created the Internet, through publishing standards. The result is a published international standard for blockchain interoperability.
🔗 https://t.co/GRoR7fXNLQ
A huge thank you to @isostandards as the international standards developing organisation, to the team at @standardsaus who started the initiative in 2015 and worked tirelessly to get TC 307 approved and established globally, and to every subject matter expert who contributed to Working Group 7 over the years. This would not exist without that collective effort.
From a blog post proposing the world's first blockchain standard in 2016, to a published ISO standard in 2026 and from Remitt to Quant, from an architectural concept of multi-gateway interoperability to Overledger and a global standard, this has been a decade-long journey of building both the standards and the technology to make blockchain interoperability a reality for institutions worldwide.
There is still much more work ahead. More standards to develop, more to evolve, and more to build. But today, we mark a significant milestone.
#Blockchain #ISO #Interoperability #Standards #TC307 #DLT #Quant #Overledger
⚡️XRP TREASURY FIRM SET TO GO PUBLIC ON NASDAQ
Evernorth Holdings filed an S-4 to the SEC for a SPAC merger with Armada Acquisition Corp. II.
The firm is set to become the largest publicly traded XRP treasury company holding 473M $XRP ($692M), mirroring Strategy’s $BTC model.
⚠️The End of Cheap Liquidity: Why a BOJ + Oil Squeeze Could Supercharge XRP Utility.
I unpack my honest opinion and reason for holding XRP. My "one eye" has always been on JAPAN, they are the key!
The Bank of Japan has made it clear: rates are heading higher. After lifting the policy rate to 0.75% in December 2025, the BOJ is widely expected to deliver further hikes in 2026 (markets pricing in a move toward 1.00% by mid-year, with analysts forecasting 1–3 total hikes).
That ends decades of ultra-cheap yen funding and profitable carry trades.
What used to be essentially “free money” now carries a real and rising opportunity cost.
Layer on the current oil price shock — Brent crude hovering near or above $100–107 amid Middle East tensions — and the pressure intensifies. Importers and businesses suddenly face 30–50%+ higher energy costs, locking up working capital just to pay the bills.
The result is a classic liquidity gridlock: companies delay outgoing payments while waiting for inflows that depend on their customers doing the same. Traditional expensive liquidity fills the gap, but widespread reliance on it risks triggering both higher inflation and recessionary pressures.
This is the exact environment I’ve been modeling for the past two years, with the BOJ as the key catalyst.
So how does this affect XRP and Ripple?
In a liquidity crunch, the inefficiencies of the legacy correspondent banking system become unbearable.
Banks still pre-fund nostro and vostro accounts worldwide to guarantee settlement.
Credible industry estimates put this trapped liquidity at ~$5 trillion globally (with some broader analyses — including defensive buffers and opportunity costs — citing up to $27 trillion in dead capital).
In a higher-rate world, that previously “free” money now hurts.
This is precisely where Ripple’s On-Demand Liquidity (ODL) on the XRPL shines:
- Convert fiat → XRP → send instantly (3–5 seconds, near-zero fees) → convert back to local fiat on the other end.
- No pre-funding required. Liquidity is sourced just-in-time instead of sitting idle for days or weeks.
If the squeeze materializes, I believe the following could accelerate rapidly:
1. Banks and corporations shift meaningful volume to Ripple Payments / ODL, unlocking portions of the trillions currently trapped in the SWIFT/correspondent model.
2. The XRPL’s deep liquidity pools (powered by XRP as the neutral bridge asset plus RLUSD and other stablecoins) provide genuine on-demand liquidity without massive pre-funding.
3. Ripple and its partners can facilitate short-term bridging solutions to ease cashflow bottlenecks during peak stress.
The flywheel kicks in: greater XRPL usage drives a surge in banks and payment providers issuing local-currency stablecoins directly on the ledger using Ripple’s compliant infrastructure.
XRP becomes the efficient bridge between all these tokens.
This utility-driven demand cycle — not short-term price targets — is the real reason I hold XRP long-term.
When you zoom out: global payment systems process roughly $21 trillion every single day.
Even a modest shift toward far more efficient rails represents enormous real-world capital reallocation and economic impact.
That’s the bet.
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