Ripple Taps $9 Billion Perpetual Futures Boom
Ripple Prime expanded its institutional trading offering to include around-the-clock swaps tied to perpetual futures on Hyperliquid, with coverage describing exposure to more than 100 traditional markets. One report says the product already has Virtu as a user, while another adds that the structure sits under a Credit Intermediation Vehicle license in the British Virgin Islands.
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Institutional clients are the immediate audience here: the new swaps give them around-the-clock access to positions linked to equities, ETFs, metals, energy, currencies, stocks, indices, and commodities. Virtu is already using the product, so one current change is that a market maker is now shown as an active user of the setup.
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