Ripple's Major Partner in Japan Teams up With Solana Foundation

SBI Holdings, Ripple’s largest associate in Japan, has introduced a game-changing partnership with Solana Foundation. SBI’s R3 Corda, the world’s largest platform of permissioned company chains, will speed up TradFi, establishment and RWA onboarding to Solana SOLUSD blockchain.

Finish of crypto tribalism? SBI Holdings groups up with Solana

Japanese fintech heavyweight SBI Holdings introduced that its personal blockchain platform R3 Corda entered right into a partnership with Solana Foundation. The collaboration will deliver collectively R3 Corda’s permissioned community expertise and the alternatives of Solana’s high-performance mainnet.

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Could 26, 2025

The partners will coordinate their efforts on building the first enterprise-grade, permissioned consensus service offered to the public directly on a major L1.

Technically, the integration means private transactions on Corda can be validate directly on Solana mainnet. This is a landmark achievement for the $10 billion ecosystem of Corda that is already leveraged by a number of TradFi majors, including HSBC and Bank of America.

A seasoned Ripple and XRP community enthusiast who goes by @sentosumosaba on X highlights the very specific nature of this collaboration:

I don’t think the XRP community was well served by those KOLs who bad-talked Solana for years.

Also, Lily Liu, President of the Solana Foundation, assumes a position on R3 Corda’s Board of Directors as the partnership kicks off.

Partnership focuses on institutions, RWAs

Largely, the collaboration will be focused on offering Solana SOLUSD as a safety and validation layer for permissioned blockchains function by establishments: banks, fintechs, cost processors and so forth.

In addition to that, joint infrastructure by Solana and Corda can be leveraged by the issuers of tokenized real-world belongings (RWAs).

As lined by U.At the moment beforehand, SBI Group not too long ago kickstarted a program of lending purposes for XRP, Bitcoin BTCUSD, Shiba Inu SHIBUSD and different main cryptocurrencies.

SBI Group’s technique is of paramount significance for Ripple: XRP nonetheless stays the second hottest asset for Japanese buyers, considerably outperforming Ethereum ETHUSD.