Gumi, a Japanese-based mobile gaming company, has announced that it will purchase XRP worth 25 billion yen (approximately $17 million) as part of its growth strategy in blockchain and Web3 spaces.
The company’s board of directors announced its decision today. The acquisition is scheduled to take place between September 2025 and February 2026.
Gumi argued that XRP purchases are not just a step towards exploiting price increases, but rather a step towards gaining strategic position in international payments and liquidity networks. The company says the move will increase revenue opportunities for financial activities focused on blockchain.
The statement noted that SBI Holdings, Gumi’s largest shareholder, has placed XRP at the heart of its global remittance and liquidity network strategy, making it a “high strategic fit” for Gumi.
Gumi also announced that it had purchased 100 billion yen (approximately $6 million) of Bitcoin (BTC) in the first half of 2025 and invested these assets in staking protocols like Babylon. The company plans to place BTC as a “Global Universal Asset” and XRP as a “financial demand-driven network assets” and pursue a double-line digital asset strategy.
Paying attention to the growing area of use of XRP, Gumi said that XRP will become a powerful investment tool in the medium and long term, especially with the growth of true demand in financial infrastructure, such as international remittances and liquidity provision.
The company announced that it will conduct a quarterly assessment of cryptocurrency and disclose any significant economic impacts to the public.
In an interesting detail, it is known that Gumi and Ripple collaborated in 2019 in a biometric startup in Keyless.
*This is not investment advice.
