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New Ripple Treasury Announced With New Strategic Shift For XRP
In its first massive move of the year, GTreasury has announced the launch of Ripple Treasury, a move that shows how the company is positioning XRP and its broader infrastructure within global finance. The new platform, revealed through GTreasury’s official X account, presents Ripple Treasury as a full-scale enterprise treasury solution that brings together traditional cash management and digital assets under one unified system, among a few other solutions.
Ripple Unveils Its New Treasury PlatformRipple Treasury, backed by GTreasury, is the first fully integrated treasury platform to combine an established enterprise treasury system with modern digital asset infrastructure provided by Ripple. According to the announcement by GTreasury, many finance teams are currently burdened by outdated systems, rising operational complexity, and tighter resources.
However, Ripple’s backing has allowed GTreasury to directly address those constraints with reinvestment into product development. This has led to engineering capacity doubling in just 90 days, and the company has expanded its capabilities through the acquisition of Solvexia, a Software-as-a-Service process automation platform acquired by GTreasury on January 6.
The announcement points to Ripple’s intention to move beyond payments alone and establish a deeper foothold in corporate treasury, liquidity management, and institutional finance. Ripple Treasury is designed to deliver practical operational benefits by giving enterprises unified visibility across traditional cash positions and digital assets, 24/7 yield optimization putting every dollar to work, instant cross-border settlements reducing FX costs, eliminating pre-funding requirements and unlocking trapped working capital, and future-ready infrastructure for tokenized assets and programmable payments, among many others.
The GTreasury Acquisition That Set the StageThe launch of Ripple Treasury is an extension of Ripple’s acquisition of GTreasury, a deal that was first announced on October 16, 2025. The crypto frim agreed to acquire the Chicago-based treasury management systems provider for about $1 billion, one of its most significant strategic moves of the year. GTreasury brought more than 40 years of experience serving large corporations and finance teams, along with mature tools for liquidity management, cash forecasting, risk control, and payments.
At the time, Ripple described the acquisition as a direct expansion into the multi-trillion-dollar corporate treasury market. Leadership of the two companies noted that the deal is a way to combine GTreasury’s deep-rooted treasury expertise with the XRPL payment and digital asset infrastructure. The deal capped a busy year of acquisitions for the company in 2025, following its purchases earlier in the year of other financial-infrastructure companies like Hidden Road and Palisade.
GTreasury runs an enterprise-grade infrastructure trusted by hundreds of global financial institutions. The company is licensed in over 75 jurisdictions with real-time 24/7/365 cross-border payment rails and institutional custody, things that Ripple hopes to take advantage of in its aim of capturing a huge share of modern corporate finance operations.
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Bitcoin Big Money Bet: Whales Are Ramping Up Long Positions As Market Sets Up
Bitcoin’s current price outlook may appear bearish and volatile, but sentiment is leaning toward a bullish narrative in the short and long term. Despite the ongoing waning price action, large BTC players are showcasing interest and conviction in the flagship crypto asset as they continue to stack long positions.
Large Players Go Long on BitcoinIn the midst of heightened volatility and sideways performance, Bitcoin investors are showing up at a significant rate. Joao Wedson, a market expert and the founder of Alphractal, has shared an analysis that shows that Bitcoin’s large participants, also regarded as whales, are quietly shifting into a bullish phase.
As highlighted in the research on the X platform, the cohort continues to accumulate long positions while the broader market begins to set up. Currently, the Whale vs Retail Delta Heatmap is demonstrating a clear divergence as institutional players are positioning ahead, while retail remains cautious, but longs remain the dominant side overall.
With Bitcoin’s price waning, this suggests that whales are not reacting to short-term noise. Rather, they could be positioning themselves early for a possible shift in direction toward the upside. Such a behavior from the cohort hints at rising confidence in the asset’s medium-term to long-term prospects.
The divergence between Bitcoin and altcoins indicates that large investors are betting their capital on BTC rather than distributing risk throughout the market. Thus, a period of Bitcoin-led market leadership may be unfolding underneath the surface due to the increasing prevalence of whale-driven BTC longs.
In the past, Wedson stated that this setup is capable of increasing the probability of forced liquidations driven by crypto exchanges. However, if the metric continues to display strength, the expert claims that it has mostly occurred close to important market bottoms, especially when whale condition grows across multiple timeframes.
Multiple Long Positions Have Been LiquidatedLong positions in Bitcoin may be growing, but the journey has not been a smooth one. In another X post, Wedson reported that BTC has liquidated a large portion of long positions that were opened over a period of 30 days.
Wedson added that this massive liquidation shows that the majority of traders are still betting on an upside trajectory in the crypto market. However, cryptocurrency exchanges and OG investors are steadily moving against consensus, as they attract easy liquidity from unprepared players.
The Bitcoin liquidation map is telling a story. CryptoPulse’s analysis of the Bitcoin Exchange Liquidation Map shows that sell-side liquidation is currently stacked, which might push the price upward after the recent downside move. This accumulation implies that if the price rises, a significant concentration of short bets may be compelled to unwind, which could increase volatility. Should the structure allow it, a natural relief push is on the horizon.
BlackRock Drops Another Bitcoin ETF, But No Sign Of An XRP ETF, What’s Going On?
BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, has filed for another Bitcoin ETF. This comes as the crypto ETF issuer continues to confine itself to the BTC and ETH ecosystems and has opted not to file for crypto funds such as the XRP ETF.
BlackRock Files For New Bitcoin ETFBlackRock filed an S-1 form for its Bitcoin Premium Income ETF. According to the filing, the Bitcoin ETF will seek to track BTC’s price while providing premium income through an actively managed strategy of writing call options on IBIT shares. From time to time, the Trust may also write call options on ETP indices that track spot BTC investment products to generate premium income.
This proposed Bitcoin premium Income ETF will mark BlackRock’s third major crypto ETF offering, as it already offers a spot Bitcoin ETF and an Ethereum ETF. The world’s largest asset manager has, to date, opted against filing for an XRP ETF or funds that track other crypto assets, despite moves by other issuers such as Grayscale and Bitwise.
It is worth noting that last year, BlackRock confirmed that it has no plans to file for a Solana or XRP ETF at this time, opting to focus on its existing Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs. The asset manager is currently the largest BTC and ETH ETF issuer, with net assets of $69 billion and $10 billion, respectively, according to SoSoValue data.
Meanwhile, other crypto ETFs have seen considerable success despite BlackRock’s hesitation to file for these funds. SoSoValue data shows that the XRP ETFs as a group already boast a net asset of $1.38 billion since launching in November. This accounts for just over 1% of the altcoin’s market cap. Solana ETFs have net assets of almost $1.10 billion, accounting for 1.50% of SOL’s market cap.
BlackRock May Explore A Basket Product Down The LineBloomberg analyst James Seyffart said during an interview with market expert Nate Geraci that BlackRock appears content to stick with just Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs. However, he alluded to his previous statement that the asset manager could launch a basket product or an active ETF at some point.
This could take the form of a crypto index ETF, which provides exposure to multiple crypto assets rather than a single asset. Such a move will be similar to Ark Invest’s recent filing for a CoinDesk 20 ETF. Cathie Wood’s firm offers only a spot Bitcoin ETF but is now looking to provide exposure to other assets through an index fund, rather than filing for a spot XRP ETF or other individual crypto funds.
Meanwhile, Seyffart made a case for a Solana ETF over an XRP ETF, stating that it is surprising that BlackRock hasn’t explored SOL. This came as he described BTC, ETH, and SOL as the ‘big 3’ in terms of crypto assets that institutional investors are looking to gain exposure to.
Another NFT Platform Falls As Rodeo Announces Shutdown
Rodeo, a social-focused NFT marketplace, announced it will stop operating in early March after failing to grow enough to stay viable.
The decision was shared by the team and its CEO on social channels, and users were given a short window to move their work off the site. Reports say the platform will be taken offline in stages over the next few weeks.
Shutdown Timetable And What It Means For UsersBetween January 27 and February 10, Rodeo will remain fully functional. On February 10 the site will switch to read-only mode and, by March 10, it will be shut off completely.
That schedule gives creators and collectors a limited period to access their accounts, download files, and prepare transfers before trading and posting are disabled.
According to company posts, Rodeo will provide tools to help move media and metadata to other storage systems.
— kayvon (@saturnial) January 27, 2026
Migration ToolsReports note that Rodeo plans to let users migrate media and metadata to Arweave, a decentralized storage option, and that an asset migration assistant will be offered to guide transfers from Rodeo’s smart contracts.
Those steps aim to prevent loss of on-chain references and to preserve creators’ work in a more permanent form. While migration tools ease the process, collectors should act quickly because on-chain operations still require steps outside the Rodeo interface.
Why It Happened And The Team’s TakeAccording to posts from CEO Kayvon Tehranian, the product won a loyal following but did not scale to the level needed for long-term survival.
The team framed Rodeo as an experiment in social collecting — rewarding creators for posting and building community rather than just for trading — but said that a small, passionate user base was not enough to fund ongoing operations. Some leadership changes were also announced alongside the shutdown news.
A Broader Pattern In The NFT MarketThe closure of Rodeo follows other recent platform wind-downs, most notably well-known marketplace Nifty Gateway that announced its own withdrawal and shutdown timetable this month.
The twin moves have shaken artists and collectors, who now face multiple deadlines and the task of moving assets off platforms that previously handled much of the heavy lifting.
This wave of closures is being treated as another sign that many NFT businesses are still struggling to find consistent demand.
Transfer Help And Practical Steps For CreatorsReports say Rodeo will publish guides and an assistant to help users transfer NFTs and related files. Creators should export any off-chain media and save contract addresses, token IDs, and metadata hashes.
If an NFT’s media is moved to Arweave, the token can keep its on-chain pointer while the underlying file stays retrievable for the future.
Featured image from Rodeo, chart from TradingView
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