Goldman takes $153M XRP stake
Goldman Sachs moved into spot XRP ETFs with a $153 million position, a sign of growing institutional exposure to digital-asset ETFs, TM AStreet reported. The trade suggests quant teams are diversifying systematic allocations into tokenized ETFs.
Goldman disclosed [in its Q4 2025 Form 13F filing] forbes.com a $153.8 million position split across four spot XRP ETFs, with the filing covering holdings as of December 31, 2025. kucoin.com That stake places Goldman as the largest institutional holder of spot XRP ETF shares among disclosed investors, according to reporting in Forbes and Blockonomi. forbes.com Blockonomi’s aggregation shows Goldman’s $153.8M represented roughly 73% of the $211 million reported among the top 30 institutional XRP ETF holders in recent filings. blockonomi.com Public filings and crypto-news summaries indicate the Goldman disclosure sits alongside roughly $1.1 billion in spot Bitcoin ETF exposure and about $1.0 billion in spot Ether ETF exposure attributed to the firm in the same reporting cycle. tradingview.com Market trackers reported total assets under management across spot XRP ETFs near $971 million and identified about 83 institutional investors with some ETF exposure, per CoinCentral and Blockonomi compilations. coincentral.com The position was first highlighted publicly by crypto reporter Eleanor Terrett and can be cross-checked via the SEC Form 13F XML datasets and aggregators such as 13f.info and WhaleWisdom, which supply programmatic feeds useful for Python/SQL backtests of institutional ETF flows. kucoin.com
