XRP News Today: VivoPower Partners with Flare to Generate Yield on $100 Million XRP Holdings

VivoPower International, a global sustainable energy solutions company, has announced a strategic partnership with Flare, a layer-1 blockchain, to generate yield on its Ripple (XRP) holdings. This initiative involves deploying an initial $100 million through a scalable framework built on Flare’s native protocols, marking VivoPower's transition into an XRP-centric treasury operation. The company aims to transform its digital asset holdings into a productive, yield-generating engine, backed by a consortium of global shareholders and advised by former senior Ripple executives in Asia.

VivoPower's approach to generating yield on its XRP holdings is regenerative, allowing it to reinvest the income generated through Flare-native protocols, such as Firelight, back into its core XRP holdings. This creates a "perpetually compounding and capital-efficient" treasury. The partnership introduces the XRPFi standard, described as a necessary evolution of DeFi designed to meet the needs of institutional treasury management. This model is built on three key principles: sustainably generated yield, unwavering regulatory clarity, and asset-backed security.

VivoPower selected XRP as its core reserve asset due to its long-standing regulatory clarity, operational track record, and technical architecture well-suited for tokenized real-world assets. The company emphasized that these attributes make XRP the logical foundation for its digital treasury strategy. Additionally, VivoPower plans to adopt Ripple’s stablecoin RLUSD as a primary cash-equivalent reserve to enhance the treasury’s stability and regulatory compliance.

For Flare, this partnership validates its growing ecosystem as an institutional-grade bridge for XRP utility. Flare’s FAssets system enables non-smart contract assets like XRP to enter programmable DeFi environments while retaining their native security models. This system is more than just a bridge; it’s a gateway that allows institutions to bring assets like XRP into programmable DeFi environments to generate yield, all while retaining their fundamental security. This partnership is seen as an open invitation for all institutions to build on this new utility layer.

Flare’s momentum has been underscored by strong liquidity growth, with the network’s total value locked surging nearly 460% in the past two months, rising from $29 million on April 1 to an all-time high of $162.14 million as of June 8. This growth highlights the increasing adoption and trust in Flare’s ecosystem, further validating its role as a key player in the DeFi space.