Monica Long, president of San Francisco-based blockchain giant Ripple, shared her thoughts on Ripple's recent “big win” as she calls it. Aviva Investors, a leading UK wealth manager, moved funds on-chain. $XRP ledger. She also made ambitious predictions for the crypto industry this year.
She posted a tweet shortly after joining. $XRP Community Day on X and its online space.
Ripple president predicts large-scale corporate adoption
In a recent tweet, Monica Long praised the progress made toward “making XRPL the go-to blockchain for institutional DeFi.” She is pleased to see Aviva Investors, one of the UK's largest asset managers, move its funds to the US. $XRP ledger.
Long believes financial institutions will begin similar efforts en masse this year. “We expect large-scale financial institutions to adopt it in 2026.”
It will come off $XRP We held a community day to reflect on our progress towards making XRPL the go-to blockchain for institutional DeFi.
Another big win for one of the UK's largest asset managers as it moves funds on-chain.
Large-scale introduction of the system is expected in 2026. https://t.co/Yx6DsIQdnh?from=article-links
— Monica Long (@MonicaLongSF) February 12, 2026
Aviva Investors uses XRPL to move funds on-chain
Aviva Investors is a global fund manager subsidiary of Aviva Plc. Two days ago, Ripple announced on its website that the leading fintech company, which already provides crypto solutions for enterprises, has entered into a strategic partnership with Ripple to tokenize traditional fund structures.
With the announcement of this partnership, Ripple will support fund managers. Because fund managers intend to move traditional financial assets that have real utility. $XRP ledger. This is the first time Ripple is collaborating with a business of this type in Europe. Therefore, the blockchain giant has experience working with financial customers in regions outside of the United States and Asia.
The two companies plan to work together to migrate tokenized funds to XRPL this year. This ledger will enable Aviva investors to use a broader feature set, including compliance. Since 2012, XRPL has processed over 4 billion transactions and currently runs over 7 million active wallets and is supported by 120 validators.
As stated by Monica Long, Ripple expects the trend this year to be for more financial institutions to move online and tokenize their assets through XRPL and other blockchains. These expectations are also supported by Ripple starting token escrow. $XRP ledger.
A recent tweet from Ripple states: “This feature extends native escrow functionality. $XRP Applies to all Trustline-based tokens (IOUs) and multi-purpose tokens (MPTs). ”
