Ripple Custody just unlocked Ethereum and Solana staking, and institutions may finally get XRP yield without messy validator risk
While XRP lacks staking rewards, Ripple strengthens its institutional appeal by integrating proven yield assets.
Ripple Custody just unlocked Ethereum and Solana staking, and institutions may finally get XRP yield without messy validator risk
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Ripple Custody just unlocked Ethereum and Solana staking, and institutions may finally get XRP yield without messy validator risk
While XRP lacks staking rewards, Ripple strengthens its institutional appeal by integrating proven yield assets.
Oluwapelumi Adejumo•Feb. 10, 2026•4 min read
Ripple has enabled staking for Ethereum and Solana within its institutional custody business, expanding beyond safekeeping to include asset servicing features that large investors increasingly consider standard.
The new capability, delivered through a partnership with staking infrastructure provider Figment, enables Ripple Custody clients to offer staking on major proof-of-stake networks without setting up validator infrastructure.
This service provides operational simplicity with institutional controls, a combination aimed at banks, custodians, and regulated asset managers that want staking yield but do not want staking operations to sit outside their governance perimeter.
The move also highlights a structural difference between XRP and the proof-of-stake assets institutions commonly hold alongside it. Ethereum and Solana can generate protocol rewards. XRP cannot, at least not today.
For custody clients that benchmark crypto servicing against familiar concepts such as securities lending revenue or cash yields, that gap matters.
That does not rule out future work. It does, however, reinforce that staking is not in an active deployment phase on XRPL.
