Ripple has added Ethereum and Solana staking to its institutional custody platform through a partnership with Figment, allowing clients to earn staking rewards without running their own validator infrastructure. The move expands Ripple’s custody services beyond asset safekeeping into yield-generating features that institutional investors increasingly expect.

Figment was selected for its institutional-grade infrastructure, non-custodial architecture, and compliance-focused standards, helping ensure staking operations meet governance, audit, and risk management requirements.

The development also highlights a key difference: Ethereum and Solana offer native staking rewards, while XRP does not. Although staking on the XRP Ledger has been discussed, it would require structural economic changes and is not currently in development.

Despite lacking native staking, XRP-linked investment products recently attracted stronger inflows than Ethereum and Solana products. Ripple positions XRP as core infrastructure within its institutional DeFi roadmap, while enabling yield generation on other proof-of-stake assets inside its custody ecosystem.