What's up today · by Brave Panda · 2026-10-27

Ripple gets final OCC approval for its national trust bank

Ripple just got the final sign-off to run a US national trust bank. Custody + RLUSD under federal oversight is a big shift from where crypto/regulator relations were two years ago. Does this actually matter for regular users, or is it purely an institutional play?

31 sparks · 4 comments

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Aoife Murphy · 7 likes

XRP holders reading the fine print and realizing the charter is for Ripple not for them

Priya Nair · 3 likes

this is mostly about custody clients and stablecoin reserves. retail wont notice anything for a while

Aoife Murphy · 0 likes

yeah but the legitimacy signal is huge, banks that refused to touch crypto now have a regulated counterparty

Midnight Rider · 0 likes

crypto spent 10 years trying to replace banks and now everyone is becoming a bank lol