Company: TOXR
Filing Date: 2025-11-20
Form Type: S-1/A
Source: 0001213900-25-112826
Chunk: 49

Company: 21Shares XRP ETF
Filing Date: 2025-11-20
Form: S-1/A
Chunk 49
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 to, among other things, buy and sell goods and services or facilitate cross-border payments, is part of a new and rapidly evolving industry that employs digital assets based upon computer-generated mathematical and/or cryptographic protocols. The XRP Ledger is a prominent, but not unique, part of this industry. The growth of this industry is subject to a high degree of uncertainty, as new assets and technological innovations continue to develop and evolve. Currently, there is relatively limited use of XRP in the retail and commercial marketplace in comparison to relatively extensive use as a store of value, thus contributing to price volatility that could adversely affect an investment in the Shares. However, XRP may not be suited for a number of commercial uses, including those requiring real time payments, partially due to the amount of time that XRP transactions may potentially require in order to clear. This could result in decreasing usage of the network, to the extent that XRP does not otherwise become a store of asset value or meet the needs of another commercial use.

Today, there is limited use of XRP in the retail, commercial, or payments spaces, and, on a relative basis, speculators make up a significant portion of users. Certain merchants and major retail and commercial businesses have only recently begun accepting XRP and the XRP Ledger as a means of payment for goods and services. This pattern may contribute to outsized price volatility, which in turn can make XRP less attractive to merchants and commercial parties as a means of payment. A lack of expansion by XRP into retail and commercial markets or a contraction of such use may result in a reduction in the price of XRP, which could adversely affect an investment in the Trust.

In addition, there is no assurance that XRP will maintain its value over the long-term. The value of XRP is subject to risks related to its usage. Even if growth in XRP adoption occurs in the near or medium-term, there is no assurance that XRP usage will continue to grow over the long-term. A contraction in use of XRP may result in increased volatility or a reduction in the price of XRP, which would adversely impact the value of Shares.

The failure or poor performance of, or perceptions of risk or negative publicity around one or more of the protocols based on the XRP Ledger or that make use of XRP may adversely affect demand for XRP, the price of XRP, or the price of the Shares.

Several decentralized protocols or decentralized applications operate on the XRP Ledger or use XRP. These may include decentralized exchanges,