Swell 2026 Demo Day

We look forward to welcoming you to our Swell 2026 Demo Day, hosted in Ripple's New York office. Doors open at 1:45 PM, with the program beginning at 2:30 PM and a networking reception with light bites to follow.

Demo Day Agenda

• 1:45 – 2:30 PM — Doors open & arrival

• 2:30 – 2:55 PM — Welcome, keynote & program overviews

• 2:55 – 3:30 PM — Startup pitches (12 startups, 3 minutes each)

• 3:30 – 4:00 PM — Group Q&A with all founders

• 4:00 – 5:30 PM — Networking reception + light bites

Featured Startups

• Blockpeer: End-to-end digital trade platform for issuing, financing, and managing MLETR-compliant electronic trade documents (like eBLs), with tokenized trade assets and stablecoin payments.

• BlockVault: Financial infrastructure that lets XRP holders earn yield and access liquidity on their assets without selling them.

• C9: Brazilian Web3 platform bringing tokenization, wallets, and crypto cards to everyday users and businesses on the XRPL.

• Circles: Social feed-first investing app that lets people make micro-loans to local ventures and follow their progress like posts.

• Exfil: Intelligence-led security platform that detects and disrupts scams, fraud, and threat infrastructure across the web and on-chain.

• Mandla Money: WhatsApp-based stablecoin wallet enabling low-cost cross-border payments and remittances for underserved communities in emerging markets.

• Mobile Wallet: Modular crypto on/off-ramp infrastructure connecting blockchains to local payment rails for the unbanked.

• Regolda: Institutional-grade physical gold tokenized on the XRP Ledger (XRPL), held in fully insured vaults and responsibly sourced, with end-to-end traceability and real-time ESG impact metrics.

• Riskx: RiskX is building the structured-investment layer for XRPFi, starting with SIVAX, a vault delivering TradFi-based yield strategies for XRP and RLUSD.

• Straid: Decentralized credit-markets and leverage protocol on the XRPL enabling undercollateralized lending via on-chain risk scoring.

• VS1: Institutional DeFi and tokenized capital-markets infrastructure on the XRPL, spanning compliant lending, swaps, and asset tokenization.

• Zuvia: Zuvia is a registered platform for real-world asset (RWA) tokenization and crowdfunding that enables access to high-quality investments through innovative Digital Assets solutions.