Ripple Expands Insti...

Ripple Expands Institutional Push with Acquisition of Crypto Custody Firm Palisade

By José Oramas November 05, 2025 In Crypto Wallets, Payments, Ripple

Ripple acquired crypto wallet provider Palisade to enhance its institutional offering.
The Palisade technology will be integrated into Ripple Payments to enable rapid, scalable wallet creation and high-speed transaction signing.
This acquisition is part of Ripple’s larger acquisition spree and focus on building enterprise custody and compliance tools, following the recent finalisation of the purchase of institutional prime broker Hidden Road (rebranded as Ripple Prime).

Ripple Labs has acquired crypto wallet provider Palisade to bolster Ripple Custody, its toolkit for banks and corporates managing digital assets, stablecoins, and tokenised real-world assets.

This integration will allow the firm to create wallets at scale and high-speed transaction signing, as well as sweeping funds efficiently into operational accounts, basically allowing Ripple to handle programmatic treasury flows and recurring payment collection.

The news follows the purchase of Hidden Road, an institutional prime broker, a deal announced earlier this year and finalised last week, as Crypto News Australia reported. It was relaunched and rebranded as Ripple Prime, pushing Ripple’s business into professional trading.

Ripple’s Acquisition Spree

Ripple has been building enterprise custody and compliance tooling over the past year. It added integrations with Chainalysis and Elliptic for monitoring and risk analytics and now holds more than 75 regulatory registrations globally.

Ripple Labs President Monica Long said the acquisition strengthens the firm’s ability to support customers that need secure wallets spun up instantly and value moved quickly across chains.

Secure digital asset custody unlocks the crypto economy and is the foundation that every blockchain-powered business stands on—that’s why it’s central to Ripple’s product strategy. Corporates are poised to drive the next massive wave of crypto adoption. Just as we’ve seen major banks go from observing to actively building in crypto, corporates are now entering the market, and they need trusted, licensed partners with out-of-the-box capabilities.

Monica Long, President of Ripple.

The integration targets fintechs and large corporations that need instant wallet creation and global treasury controls, hence why Palisade’s wallet-as-a-service will let clients spin up secure wallets quickly for high-throughput uses such as on-/off-ramps, enterprise payment flows, and programmatic treasury.

The technology will plug directly into Ripple Payments, and the stack supports multiple blockchains and can even connect to DeFi protocols.