ECB's Pontes Goes Live With One of Four Day-One DLT Platforms Running on XRP Ledger Tech
- —Pontes went live September 21, confirmed by Christine Lagarde after the Eurogroup meeting
- —Four day-one operators: Clearstream, SWIAT, Cashlink and Axiology
- —Axiology runs a permissioned XRPL-derived stack; cash settles in euro central-bank money
- —Launch fees: EUR 2,500 per participant and EUR 15,000 per operator, no per-trade charge
Why it matters: Institutions can adopt XRPL-derived rails without buying public XRP — 21Shares warns utility can scale without driving token demand.
Source: CoinGape