Ripple Dominates $1B+ Tokenization Boom: XRP Ledger Issuance Skyrockets 2,260% in 2025
Ripple's XRP Ledger just rewrote the rules of asset tokenization—again. While Wall Street still debates blockchain pilots, real-world adoption is exploding where it counts: on-chain.
The Numbers Don't Lie
A 2,260% surge in tokenized asset issuance isn't just growth—it's a market screaming that legacy finance's 'wait-and-see' approach means 'get left behind.' The XRP Ledger now processes more value than some small nations' GDPs.
Why TradFi Should Sweat
Ripple's infrastructure bypasses middlemen like a hot knife through bureaucratic butter. No waiting for business hours. No begging custodians for access. Just programmable value moving at internet speed—while bankers argue about 'risk frameworks.'
The Bottom Line
Tokenization was always inevitable. The only surprise? How fast Ripple turned 'future promise' into 'present dominance.' Maybe Goldman Sachs can buy the whitepaper as an NFT—if they figure out how wallets work.
XRP Ledger Rising Quietly
According to Pumpius, who shared data on the social media platform X, the recent surge is not just HYPE but a reflection of real institutional migration. Banks, fintech firms, and private companies are now quietly issuing tokenized bonds, real estate titles, and commodities directly on the XRP Ledger.
Unlike blockchains such as ethereum that often struggle with high gas fees or Solana, which has faced reliability issues, XRPL offers the kind of enterprise-grade performance needed to handle large volumes of tokenized assets. Particularly, Ripple’s XRPL can process up to 1,500 transactions per second and do so with extremely low fees.
According to the data in the image below, Ripple’s RWA value started 2025 around $5 million, with the majority coming from OpenEden’s T-bills on the XRP Ledger. However, this value is now sitting around $118 million with many other tokens of real-world assets.
The $118 million worth of RWAs now tokenized is only a glimpse of the potential. Some analysts have forecasted that up to $5 trillion worth of real-world assets will be tokenized by 2030. Even if just 1% of that amount flows through the XRP Ledger, XRP’s current price levels could become a mere baseline.
In the words of Pumpius, this turns XRP’s price narrative from speculation into mathematics. The infrastructure, according to him, is already live and handling institutional load. As such, the “$5 to $1000 XRP” prediction isn’t just fantasy if the XRPL becomes the backbone of RWA settlements.
RLUSD And The Role Of The XRP Ledger
One of the important developments pushing XRPL into the spotlight is RLUSD, Ripple’s stablecoin, which has already attracted interest from major Wall Street custodians like BNY Mellon. Interestingly, Pumpius also mentioned an example of how the XRP Ledger is expanding its use cases into high-value data markets beyond traditional finance.
This example is the integration of the DNA Protocol, a project bringing genomic identity and healthcare-related RWAs onto the blockchain. This initiative introduces a new dimension of use cases for the XRPL, one that intersects with the trillion-dollar healthcare and biotechnology sectors.
Beyond these developments on the XRP Ledger, Spot XRP ETFs could hit the US market anytime soon. Their eventual launch is expected to do wonders for XRP and possibly send its price above double digits. Meanwhile, according to Ripple CTO David Schwartz, XRP’s current price valuation is not a true measure of its utility. Recent updates have seen the cryptocurrency finding usage beyond the XRP Ledger and into the EVM sidechain.
