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Market Updates: Ripple Pilots Tokenized Bonds in South Korea, XRP Ledger Taps Boundless for Privacy Upgrade, Tether Launches Self-Custody Wallet
Global crypto markets witnessed a series of significant developments today. Ripple unveiled a bond tokenization pilot in South Korea, while the XRP Ledger announced a privacy-focused integration with Boundless. At the same time, U.S.-listed Bitcoin ETFs attracted strong inflows, 
and Tether launched a new self-custodial wallet.
To begin with, Ripple announced a partnership with Kyobo Life Insurance to pilot blockchain-based settlement for government bonds within South Korea’s financial system.

As part of the initiative, Ripple will deploy its custody platform, Ripple Custody, to handle the issuance, settlement, and storage of tokenized bonds.

The move targets longstanding inefficiencies in traditional bond markets, where settlements typically involve multiple intermediaries and can take up to two days. By contrast, blockchain-based processes enable near real-time execution.

If successful, the pilot could reduce counterparty risk and improve capital efficiency. Ripple also indicated that the project may expand into broader tokenized treasury operations across South Korea’s financial ecosystem.

Alongside its bond initiative, Ripple’s ecosystem is progressing on the technological side. In a separate announcement, the XRP Ledger revealed an integration with Boundless to enhance transaction privacy.

The upgrade leverages zero-knowledge technology tailored for institutional use, allowing sensitive transaction details to remain hidden while still meeting regulatory requirements.

According to Boundless CEO Shiv Shankar, the system conceals key information such as transaction size and counterparties, while enabling regulators to access necessary data through selective disclosure.



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USDT issuer Tether quietly turned its Bitcoin reserve wallet into a $7.2b war chest, built by funneling 15% of profits into BTC as USDT’s balance sheet goes quasi-sovereign. Summary Tether withdrew 951 BTC worth about $70.47m from Bitfinex into its reserve wallet. The address now holds 97,141 BTC, roughly $7.2b in Bitcoin, with about $2.175b in unrealized profit. The stack, built using 15% of profits, reinforces USDT’s balance sheet and systemic market role. Tether has added another 951 BTC, worth roughly $70.47m, to its dedicated Bitcoin reserve address, lifting the wallet to 97,141 BTC (about $7.2b) and cementing USDT’s “quasi-sovereign” profile in crypto markets. According to on-chain analyst Ember, “Tether’s BTC reserve address recently withdrew 951 BTC ($70.47M) from Bitfinex, acquired in Q1 2026 using 15% of profits,” with the position now sitting on an estimated $2.175b in unrealized gains at an average cost of around $51,312 per coin. That reserve wallet now ranks as the fifth-largest Bitcoin address globally, underscoring how the issuer of USDT has quietly become one of the market’s biggest direct BTC holders. Tether’s Bitcoin strategy and USDT backing Tether first disclosed in 2023 that it would “allocate up to 15% of net realized operating profits to Bitcoin as part of reserve diversification,” a policy it has reiterated in multiple updates as it steadily increased its stack. You might also like: BNB price breaks out of multi-year falling wedge, eyes rally above $1,000 In a previous crypto.news story, the company’s Q4 2023 attestation showed it made $2.8b in net profits, driven partly by appreciation in its Bitcoin and gold holdings, while also growing excess reserves above $5b. Subsequent reporting highlighted Tether buying 8,888 BTC tranches through 2024 and 2025, pushing holdings beyond 96,000 BTC even before the latest move, as USDT supply — t

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