XRP NEWS: JPMorgan, Mastercard, Ripple and Ondo Finance completed a live cross-border redemption of tokenized US Treasuries on the 24.
The token instrument at the center of the pilot was Ondo Finance’s OUSG, which holds $250 million in assets under management backed by short-term US Treasuries with an average maturity of 100 days and a yield of 4.8%, with over 1,200 registered institutional holders as of May 2026.
Today, Mastercard, @OndoFinanceKinexys by @JP MorganAnd @Ripple successfully completed a landmark transaction connecting a public blockchain to interbank settlement rails.
Together, we are paving the way for 24/7 global markets that never close. pic.twitter.com/UddCbUl7zR
– Mastercard (@Mastercard) May 6, 2026
This is not simply a demonstration of speed of settlement. This is the first confirmed example of a public blockchain serving as the transport layer for a tokenized RWA buyout that completes directly on JPMorgan’s institutional treasury rails, a structural distinction that separates this pilot from prior tokenization experiments conducted on permissioned or proprietary networks.
We suspect that the precise timing of the transaction, executed well outside banking hours in the United States, was not coincidental: it was the proof of concept that the consortium had to make, namely that settlement of the public ledger at the bank no longer requires the market to be open.
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XRP News: Kinexys and XRP Ledger: How the Hybrid Settlement Mechanism Really Works
The mechanism works as follows: Ondo Finance initiated the buyback of OUSG tokens natively on the XRP Ledger, where the asset leg was settled in RLUSD, Ripple’s USD-pegged stablecoin, in 4.2 seconds, with XRP covering only the minimal network fees.
At the same time, Mastercard’s Multi-Token Network (MTN) transmitted settlement instructions to JPMorgan’s Kinexys platform, which then transferred US dollars to Ripple’s DBS bank account in Singapore to close the fiat portion of the transaction.
This is a significant step towards 24/7 global financial markets.
By combining the XRP Ledger with global banking infrastructure, this pilot demonstrates how institutions can execute cross-border transactions in a single integrated flow.
– Ripple (@ripple) May 6, 2026
JPMorgan’s Kinexys, launched in October 2024, had processed $1.2 billion in tokenized deposits since its inception prior to this pilot; according to available reports, this was its first public blockchain integration beyond the private Onyx network that underpins JPM Coin. The architecture is therefore truly hybrid: the XRP Ledger managed asset movements under a set of authorized validators configured for institutional compliance with the MiCA and SEC tokenized asset guidelines, while dollar settlement flowed through the established corresponding banking infrastructure.
This is a significantly different model from fully on-chain settlement or fully off-chain transfer; it separates the speed and programmability of public ledger settlement from the identity and compliance layer that institutional counterparties need.
The pilot was built directly on a sequence of previous institutional XRPL tests. In November 2025, Mastercard, Ripple, WebBank and Gemini conducted a pilot of RLUSD credit card settlement on the XRP Ledger. In March 2026, Ripple and Archax settled £100 million in tokenized gilts on XRPL in a 20-second cross-border test. Ondo Finance had separately launched OUSG on the XRP Ledger in June 2025, explicitly designed to settle redemptions in RLUSD.
The May 6 pilot project was not an isolated experiment; it was the convergence of parallel tracks of institutional development that had been taking place simultaneously for more than twelve months.
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