Ripple Q1 Report Highlights XRP Growth, Rising Institutional Adoption AllinCrypto May 12, 2025
In a new market report for Q1 2025, Ripple (XRP) has outlined and pointed out key strengths with XRP’s market maneuverability and adoption by institutions.
According to Ripple, the company will start issuing regular market reports each quarter in response to the SEC’s past abuses of the company’s transparency.
By making a lot of Ripple’s growth and internal movements more known to the public, Ripple aims to present and share transparent reports of the XRP token, XRP Ledger, and Ripple’s expansions, both positive and negative.
Ripple XRP gains against Bitcoin amid strong institutional adoption stats
In their latest Q1 2025 XRP Markets Report, Ripple highlighted how institutions have continued to back and support Ripple’s products, mentioning Franklin Templeton’s S-1 filing for XRP.
Ripple highlighted the SEC’s recent appeal withdrawal, bringing an end to their long-term case, which accused XRP of being a security, “closing the chapter on a multi-year legal saga”.
The firm also pointed out Ripple’s acquisition of Hidden Road for $1.25 billion, the largest M&A deal in cryptocurrency history, which will go towards greater institutional use cases for the RLSUD stablecoin and XRP.
Using market metrics from Bloomberg, CoinDesk, and Refinitiv Eikon, Ripple stated that XRP volumes remained high over the last 6 months.
The XRP/BTC ratio increased in Q1, indicating XRP’s strong performance against Bitcoin. As a result. Trading volumes for XRP spiked in late January and February to 12 and 16 billion, respectively, with Binance and Coinbase being the most used exchanges for XRP.
On XRP Ledger volume and activity, Rippe stated that after growth in Q4 2024, there has since been a “30-40%” decline in transaction volume and new wallet creation on the XRP Ledger in Q1 2025.
According to Ripple, such activity was common across major networks such as BTC and ETH:
“in line with activity contractions seen across major blockchains like Bitcoin and Ethereum. Despite this cooling, DeFi activity proved to be more resilient.”
Ripple’s RLUSD stablecoin witnessed significant attention with its decentralized exchange volume peaking at $300 million and market cap flipping $90 million.
Ripple eyes RLUSD and XRP Ledger expansions
Speaking on Ripple’s Hidden Road acquisition, the international multi-asset prime broker will start implementing RLUSD as collateral across all of its products to allow cross-margining between crypto and “traditional finance instruments.”
Ripple confirmed in their report that Hidden Road will go ahead with XRP Ledger implementations to streamline post-trade operations for swaps, repo markets, and FX to help reduce operational expenses and bring a boost to platform efficiency.
The crypto firm said Hidden Road has been a huge milestone in the institutional adoption of blockchain infrastructure.
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