PANews reported on July 7 that according to Cryptonews, Ripple issued a statement last Friday that the Brazilian crypto exchange Mercado Bitcoin announced that it would complete the tokenization of $200 million in real-world assets (RWA) on the XRP Ledger, covering fixed income and stock assets. Silvio Pegado, managing director of Ripple Latin America, said that this move shows that public blockchain infrastructure is gaining institutional trust and becoming a reliable technical foundation for regulated financial products.