XRPL gets on chain privacy via ZKP: Introducing Boundless on XRPL

Paris, April 14, 2026 — Today at XRPL Zone Paris, during Paris Blockchain Week, XRPL Commons and Boundless announced a landmark integration bringing zero-knowledge (ZK) proof technology to the XRP Ledger.

For the first time, institutions and builders on XRPL can use ZK proofs to keep sensitive financial data private, while remaining fully auditable and compliant.

This is the missing piece for enterprise adoption of XRPL. Institutions moving capital on-chain need the same privacy and compliance guarantees they have on traditional financial rails. Boundless makes that possible, giving institutions the guardrails they need to participate in DeFi markets.

What it unlocks: confidential execution on XRPL

Stablecoin payments Send, swap, or receive stablecoin payments where amounts, counterparties, and timing stay hidden from public view. Works with existing stablecoins like RLUSD, USDC, and USDT.

Treasury Management OTC positions and cross-entity transfers without exposing strategy or counterparty onchain. Yield deployments execute without broadcasting where the capital is going.

DeFi access Interact with DeFi protocols like Morpho while keeping positions confidential, including earning yield on idle balances. Order flow stays protected from MEV bots and front-runners.

Crosschain interoperability From crosschain swaps to onchain lending, move and deploy capital across chains. Two parties can settle transactions with a guarantee that both sides settle or neither does. This extends to any counterparty that can sign a transaction confirmation, including banks and CEXs, with transaction details staying confidential.

"XRPL has always been built for institutional finance. With Boundless, we are making confidential, compliant execution infrastructure on XRPL, unlocking a category of enterprise use cases that simply wasn't possible before", said Odelia Torteman, Director of Corporate Adoption, XRPL Commons

"Boundless brings scalable confidential compute directly to the XRPL ecosystem. From stablecoin payments to DeFi flows, Institutions can now settle on XRPL with ZK proofs and cryptographic attestations for compliance and privacy-preserving logic, such as sanction screening to KYC/KYT/KYB. No trust assumptions, no data exposure, and full control over what gets disclosed and to whom" noted Emiliano Bonassi, VP of Engineering, Boundless

The integration is now live on the test net.

This update, enabling ZK verification natively on XRP Ledger, is not yet available on Mainnet. It is available for developers in a testnet environment and has been utilized in the latest hackathon hosted by XRPL Commons.

Read the technical documentation. Boundless ZK on XRPL - Repository

About XRPL Commons

XRPL Commons is a Paris-based foundation supporting the builders developing on the XRP Ledger, from early-stage projects to established businesses integrating XRPL into their products. XRPL Commons runs programs across the full builder journey, from developer education and technical training to incubation, acceleration, consulting, including community events, with the goal of accelerating the growth of a mature, high-impact XRPL ecosystem.

About Boundless

Boundless is building compliance infrastructure for onchain finance, bridging the gap between traditional finance and public blockchains. Powered by the same team of ZK experts that built the world’s largest ZK proving network, it enables transaction confidentiality, role-based access, and selective disclosure for regulators—delivered as a fully managed service that deploys across any public blockchain, with no new infrastructure required.