Ripple joins top Unicorn Index with OpenAI

Ripple joined the Prime Unicorn Index alongside major private technology firms including OpenAI, SpaceX, Databricks and Stripe.

Ripple was the only blockchain infrastructure company included among the index’s top ten firms, reflecting growing institutional interest in distributed ledger technology as part of broader financial and enterprise infrastructure.

The company recently worked with Mastercard, Ondo Finance and JPMorgan Chase on a pilot testing tokenised US Treasury redemption flows on the XRP Ledger.

The pilot explored interoperability between tokenised financial assets and traditional banking systems, with Ripple positioning the XRP Ledger as infrastructure capable of supporting institutional blockchain applications.

Ripple also said it continues operating a $25 million education initiative in the United States aimed at improving access to digital tools, infrastructure and STEM resources across participating schools.

The company’s inclusion in the Prime Unicorn Index comes as tokenisation and blockchain infrastructure projects increasingly compete for adoption within traditional finance and enterprise technology sectors.

Ripple said the combination of institutional pilots, enterprise blockchain infrastructure and public-sector initiatives reflects broader maturation across the digital asset industry beyond speculative trading activity.

At the time of reporting, XRP price was $1.46.