Ripple has placed the first year of a spot XRP ETF among the core topics for the Institutional track at its newly released Swell 2026 agenda. The New York event is expected to draw roughly 1,500 participants and will combine Swell with the XRP Ledger-focused Apex summit and UBRI Connect for the first time. The lineup includes executives from BNY, Intercontinental Exchange, TD Securities and Robinhood, alongside crypto companies, asset managers and payments firms, reflecting Ripple's focus on connecting custody, trading, liquidity, stablecoins, tokenized securities and consumer access. BNY's Laide Majiyagbe is scheduled to discuss tokenized money-market funds, stablecoins, liquidity and settlement, while ICE's Michael Blaugrund will address institutional adoption involving tokenized equities, onchain funds and collateral. BNY was selected as the primary custodian for RLUSD reserves in 2025; those reserves recently reached about $2.53 billion, with circulating supply above $2.4 billion. TD Securities' Elizabeth St-Onge will join a discussion on issuer and consortium-based stablecoin models, while Robinhood crypto chief Johann Kerbrat will discuss the convergence of retail and institutional access with Ripple President Monica Long. Spot XRP ETFs recently became a regulated U.S. investment category. Coinpaper reported cumulative ETF inflows of roughly $1.7 billion by mid-September, and the SEC declared a post-effective amendment for the Bitwise XRP ETF effective on Sept. 28. In late August, XRP ETFs posted their strongest week of 2026 with $110.49 million in inflows while XRP declined, underscoring that regulated demand has not alone determined short-term price action.