Gumi, a Japanese-based cellular gaming firm, has introduced that it’s going to buy XRP price 25 billion yen (roughly $17 million) as a part of its development technique in blockchain and Web3 areas.
The corporate's board of administrators introduced its choice right this moment. The acquisition is scheduled to happen between September 2025 and February 2026.
Gumi argued that XRP purchases usually are not only a step in direction of exploiting value will increase, however slightly a step in direction of gaining strategic place in worldwide funds and liquidity networks. The corporate says the transfer will improve income alternatives for monetary actions centered on blockchain.
The assertion famous that SBI Holdings, Gumi's largest shareholder, has positioned XRP on the coronary heart of its world remittance and liquidity community technique, making it a “excessive strategic match” for Gumi.
Gumi additionally introduced that it had bought 100 billion yen (roughly $6 million) of Bitcoin (BTC) within the first half of 2025 and invested these property in staking protocols like Babylon. The corporate plans to position BTC as a “World Common Asset” and XRP as a “monetary demand-driven community property” and pursue a double-line digital asset technique.
Listening to the rising space of use of XRP, Gumi mentioned that XRP will change into a robust funding instrument within the medium and long run, particularly with the expansion of true demand in monetary infrastructure, reminiscent of worldwide remittances and liquidity provision.
The corporate introduced that it’s going to conduct a quarterly evaluation of cryptocurrency and disclose any important financial impacts to the general public.
In an fascinating element, it’s identified that Gumi and Ripple collaborated in 2019 in a biometric startup in Keyless.
*This isn’t funding recommendation.
