Vivopower is a company that quotes in the Nasdaq index.
XRP does not have a special price increase attributable to this novelty, so far.
Vivopower, an energy company that lies in the Nasdaq index, reported an agreement with investors for a private placement of shares for $ 121 million to finance the creation of a strategic XRP reserve.
Through a press releaseit was reported that the firm issued a total of 20 million shares at an average price of $ 6.05 each. With this operation, the United Kingdom headquarters It will be the first to incorporate the Ripple Labs cryptocurrency to his treasury. The private offer was headed by Prince Abdulaziz Bin Turki Abdulaziz Al Saud, president of Eleventh Holding Company in Saudi Arabia
The Executive President of Vivopower, Kevin Chin, declared: “As a long -term owner of XRP, we share a common vision and objectives regarding how a company that quotes in the stock market can scale for the benefit of the XRP community and the Vivopower shareholders. In addition, I am excited about the multiple practical cases that help solve problems such as friction in international payments, something that we have experienced first hand those who operate. ”
After the news was known, Vivopower’s shares shot up and reached a maximum of $ 8.30. At the time of publication of this note, its price is $ 6.81.
The enthusiasm that generated the news in Vivopower’s shares did not move to XRP, whose price remained at $ 2.30, 32% below its historical maximum (ATH) of $ 3.39 reached in January 2025.
The concrete thing is that, with this decision, Vivopower adds to a trend that is booming in the markets: the adoption of digital assets as a value reserve. As Cryptonoticias has reported, this trend was imposed by Michael Saylor, the CEO of Strategy (formerly Microstrategy), who since 2020 has been deploying an aggressive model of accumulation of Bitcoin (BTC) as a reserve of value.
To do this, he designed a strategy that consists of issuing debt through convertible bonds to increase their holdings without depending on their operational income.
This trend was expanding as an oil stain in the market and, at present, there are more than 80 companies that accumulate BTC in their treasury. Strategy occupies the first place in this ranking with 580,250 BTC, according to site data Bitcoin Treasuries.
But what in principle was a homogeneous oil stain, has begun to deform, as more companies incorporate other digital assets such as Solana (Sun) or Ethher (ETH), Ethereum’s native currency. To give an example, Addentax Group Corp, a textile and real estate company in China, informed that it will issue ordinary shares to acquire 8,000 BTC along with other cryptocurrencies, including Official Trump (Trump), the official memecoin of the US president, whose utility is practically null and is only used for financial speculation.
This change alters the original idea and brings new risks for a simple reason: these reserves are not made up of BTC.
In principle, because The currency created by Satoshi Nakamoto is considered “digital gold”because of the similarities it has with precious metal. It is a decentralized and resistant asset to the censorship of banks and governments. Cryptocurrencies, on the other hand, are more similar to the action of a company: they are controlled by equipment, they have defined permits and objectives.
Also, it is worth noting that BTC is consolidating The narrative that it is a shelter asset in times of economic uncertaintya sample of this, is the strength he had during the most tense point of the “war of tariffs” that Donald Trump unleashed. On the other hand, cryptocurrencies remain mostly seen as a means for trading and financial speculation.
