BREAKING: DTCC Greenlights Major ETF Expansion - Solana, HBAR, and XRP Now Listed
Wall Street's backoffice giant just dropped a crypto bombshell
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation—the plumbing behind traditional finance—just legitimized three major altcoins in one fell swoop. Solana's blistering speed, HBAR's enterprise-grade architecture, and XRP's settlement capabilities now have the institutional stamp of approval.
Why this matters more than another CNBC segment
DTCC doesn't do press releases—it does infrastructure. When they list assets, billions in institutional capital follows. This isn't crypto Twitter hype; it's the silent machinery of traditional finance finally acknowledging what's been obvious to builders for years.
The new institutional playground
Pension funds and asset managers now have the clearance to play with assets that would've gotten them fired three years ago. The irony? Same institutions that called this stuff 'fraud' now can't get enough of the yield—proving money talks louder than principles every time.
Watch the dominoes fall
Expect wirehouses to rollout 'educational' materials next week—the kind that conveniently omit how they spent the last decade dismissing these very assets. The real test? Whether traditional finance can handle 24/7 markets without blowing up their legacy systems.
Recent XRP, Solana, and HBAR Prices
The listings signal preparation for market entry, pending regulatory clearance. According to CoinMarketCap, recently, XRP has been trading at $3.07, with a trading volume of $5.87 billion and a market cap of $183 billion. Solana (SOL) has been trading at $238.97, with a trading volume of $12.17 billion and a market cap of $129.06 billion.
Meanwhile, Hedera (HBAR) has been trading at $0.2455, with a trading volume of $321.6 million and a market cap of $10.4 billion at press time.
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