{"id":509,"date":"2026-07-29T14:29:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T14:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/?p=509"},"modified":"2026-07-29T14:29:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T14:29:40","slug":"hong-kongs-osl-opens-retail-xrp-trading-first-licensed-venue-to-do-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/?p=509","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong&#8217;s OSL Opens Retail XRP Trading, First Licensed Venue to Do So"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hong Kong-listed exchange OSL Group opened retail <strong>XRP<\/strong> trading on its OSL HK platform on July 29, becoming the first venue licensed by the city&#8217;s Securities and Futures Commission to offer the token to everyday investors rather than professional clients only.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Retail users can now trade XRP\/USD via the exchange&#8217;s Flash Trade feature, with over-the-counter pairs available in both XRP\/USD and XRP\/HKD, all settled directly on the XRP Ledger network. The listing expands access beyond a professional-investor-only offering that began in December 2025, and makes XRP only the fourth digital asset \u2014 alongside <strong>BTC<\/strong>, <strong>ETH<\/strong>, and <strong>SOL<\/strong> \u2014 approved for retail trading on a licensed Hong Kong platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">OSL holds Type 1 and Type 7 licenses from the SFC along with anti-money-laundering registration, and carries <strong>$1 billion<\/strong> in client asset insurance, giving Hong Kong residents a regulated fiat on-ramp to XRP without relying on offshore platforms. OSL and rival HashKey Exchange were the first two firms to receive Hong Kong&#8217;s original retail crypto licenses back in 2023, and both have since expanded their token menus gradually under the SFC&#8217;s phased approval process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">XRP rose roughly <strong>4%<\/strong> in 24 hours to trade near <strong>$1.09<\/strong> following the announcement, outperforming a broader crypto market that gained about <strong>1.46%<\/strong> over the same period, <em>according to data cited by MarketForces Africa<\/em>. The move came alongside supportive ecosystem data: the XRP Ledger has attracted <strong>$2.6 billion<\/strong> in real-world-asset inflows over six months, and cumulative inflows into spot XRP ETFs have passed <strong>$1.49 billion<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The launch adds to a broader pattern of Asian regulators moving faster on retail digital-asset access than their US counterparts, where market-structure legislation remains stalled in Congress. For now, traders are watching whether XRP can hold above the $1.09 support level and convert the regulatory catalyst into a sustained move past resistance near $1.15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong-listed exchange OSL Group opened retail XRP trading on its OSL HK platform on July 29, becoming<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-altcoins"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":511,"href":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions\/511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1stblock.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}