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MER-00012012

XRPL · Fact

The ledger opens

The XRP Ledger begins closing blocks through validator consensus rather than mining.

MER-0002Ongoing

XRP · Fact

The native asset

XRP is the asset native to the ledger and is used to pay network transaction costs.

MER-0003Ongoing

XRPL · Fact

The built-in exchange

Order books and liquidity live inside the protocol itself rather than in a company's database.

MER-0004Ongoing

Ripple · Fact

The rails builder

Ripple builds blockchain-based payment and financial infrastructure; it does not own the ledger.

MER-0005Ongoing

DeFi · Fact

Automated liquidity

The XRPL ecosystem has expanded into automated market making and on-chain liquidity.

MER-0006Oct 2025

Evernorth · Fact

The treasury thesis

Evernorth publicly introduced an institutional XRP treasury strategy backed by more than $1B in announced gross proceeds.

MER-0007Jan 2026

Institutional finance · Fact

Infrastructure relationships

Announced relationships with Doppler Finance and t54 focused on liquidity, treasury and autonomous operations infrastructure.

MER-0008Aug 2026

Timeline · Proposed

Public-market process

A public-market listing under the proposed ticker XRPN remains conditional until the transaction closes.

MER-0009Gen 01

Characters · Fiction

The Meridian Tiger

Community-created character representing institutional capital walking into the XRP ecosystem. Fictional.

MER-0010Gen 01

Artifacts · Fiction

The Genesis file

The first numbered entry in the concept collection. Fictional, unminted concept art.

MER-0011Ongoing

Memes · Community

The meme layer

$EVERNORTH captures the meme layer of the institutional XRP moment. Community-created.

MER-0012Ongoing

Community · Community

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