XRP holders can now borrow RLUSD on Ethereum through $280 million lending pool

XRP holders can now borrow RLUSD on Ethereum through $280 million lending pool

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XRP holders can now borrow RLUSD on Ethereum through $280 million lending pool

XRP holders can now borrow RLUSD against their coins on Ethereum without selling, through a $280 million vault that had never accepted an XRP-linked asset before.

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Shaurya Malwa

Aug 4, 2026, 6:12 a.m.

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XRP holders can now use wrapped XRP (FXRP) as collateral to borrow Ripple’s RLUSD stablecoin on Ethereum via a new isolated market on Morpho Blue.

The lending pool, managed by Sentora, approved FXRP after reviewing its market behavior, oracle design, liquidity and liquidation capacity under an institutional risk framework.

Flare is developing tools to streamline the current multi-step process of minting and bridging FXRP, aiming to let users authorize the entire borrowing flow directly from an XRP Ledger wallet.

XRP holders can now borrow against their coins on Ethereum without selling them.

Flare, the blockchain that lets XRP be used in decentralized finance, told CoinDesk on Monday that its wrapped version of the token has been accepted as collateral by Sentora, which manages a $280 million lending pool of Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin.

Borrowers post the wrapped XRP, called FXRP, and take out RLUSD against it.

The approval opens an isolated FXRP/RLUSD market on Morpho Blue where holders can borrow against XRP exposure rather than sell it. Access is permissionless with no whitelist required.

Sentora reviewed FXRP's market behavior, oracle design, liquidity and liquidation capacity under its institutional risk framework before signing off, and the asset will face the same ongoing monitoring as other collateral in the vault.

Getting there takes several steps today. Users mint FXRP through Flare's FAssets system, bridge it to Ethereum via Stargate, deposit it into the market and borrow at their chosen loan-to-value ratio. Flare says it is building a route through Smart Accounts that would let holders authorize the whole sequence from an XRP Ledger wallet, with direct XRPL-to-Ethereum minting also in development.

Flare co-founder and CEO Hugo Philion said XRP is one of the largest assets in crypto and one of the least used in DeFi, and that having an institutional risk team underwrite it on Ethereum mainnet counts for more than another bridge listing.

The isolated structure is what makes the approval possible. Each Morpho Blue market carries its own collateral asset, debt asset, oracle and liquidation threshold, so a failure in the FXRP market stays inside it rather than reaching the rest of the vault.

Scale is the open question, however. Roughly 155 million FXRP has been minted since launch against Philion's stated target of drawing 5 billion XRP into Flare's ecosystem over six months, and the new market opens with what Flare describes as a “conservative supply cap” that may rise as usage grows.

CoinDesk has reached out to Flare and Sentora for the supply cap, loan-to-value ratio, liquidation threshold and oracle source, and will update with any response.

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