Republic Becomes Institutional Validator on XDC Network

Republic joined XDC Network as an institutional validator, a role announced at Consensus Miami. Under the agreement Republic will operate masternodes that validate on‑chain transactions and help maintain network uptime for XDC’s enterprise-focused layer‑one protocol.

As a masternode operator, Republic will participate in XDC’s proof-of-stake validation process, confirming transactions and contributing to network security and availability. Republic noted the role expands its work beyond marketplace services, tokenization, asset management, advisory and staking into network-level operations.

XDC Network has been adding institutional participants to its validator set, including HashKey Cloud and UOB Venture Management. Shanlong James Chen, Head of Strategic Investments at XVC Tech, commented, “Each additional institutional validator improves the robustness of our layer 1 protocol and increases credibility and confidence in the network. We will unveil more US validators in the coming weeks as XDC expands in North America.”

Jeffrey Vier, Head of Tokenization at Republic, said, “XDC has live, scaled, institutionally backed use cases.” He added that Republic joining at the infrastructure level reflects where the company sees the digital asset economy heading and the infrastructure it wants supporting that view.

XDC Network is an enterprise-grade layer-one blockchain built for global trade and finance. Its architecture supports real-world asset tokenization, cross-border settlement, trade finance applications, stablecoins and institutional decentralized applications.

Republic has facilitated more than $2.6 billion in investments, backed over 2,500 ventures and grown a user community of more than 3 million across 150 countries. Operating as a validator extends Republic’s presence in the digital-asset ecosystem into the operational foundation of a blockchain used by banks, asset managers and corporate trade flows.

XDC’s continued addition of institutional validators increases the number of institutional nodes in its network as it pursues enterprise adoption in trade finance and real‑world asset tokenization. Republic’s participation adds another institutional node to the validator set.