Ripple just locked in a strategic deal with Meritz Securities—first Korean securities firm to partner with them. This is their 4th institutional play in South Korea this year alone.

Focus: custody + tokenization for Korea's capital markets.

South Korea's been quietly stacking institutional crypto infrastructure. Ripple's positioning hard in APAC liquidity corridors. If tokenized securities hit Korean retail + institutional flow, $XRP could see serious utility demand.

Watch Korea. They don't move slow once they move.