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Armada Acquisition Corp. II shareholders will vote Sept. 30 on Evernorth Holdings' merger that would take the XRP-focused treasury public on Nasdaq under the ticker XRPN. The SEC declared Evernorth's registration statement effective Aug. 27, setting up a shareholder-of-record date of Aug. 20 for the special meeting. The deal would list Evernorth with more than 473.3 million XRP on its balance sheet, with CEO Asheesh Birla framing the entire structure around a single metric: XRP per share.
Why it matters
The charter ahead of the vote authorizes up to roughly 10 billion shares across four classes: 7.4 billion Class A, 100 million Class B, 2.4 billion Class C, and 100 million preferred. The transaction itself only consumes about 34.5 million Class A shares plus 11.5 million warrants, leaving most of that authorized capacity unissued at closing. That gap is the structural story: every additional share Evernorth sells increases the bar its XRP holdings must clear to keep XPS rising. Capital raises that buy XRP at valuations that do not grow the treasury faster than the share count would dilute the metric that anchors the pitch.
Market impact
Evernorth has lined up a stack of yield engines to add XRP without printing shares, including institutional lending, liquidity provisioning, DeFi strategies on the XRP Ledger, and the proposed XLS-66 native lending protocol, which is still under development. The company is also exploring AI-powered treasury tooling with t54 and structured liquidity products with Doppler Finance, plus plans to run XRPL validators and use Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin across the XRP DeFi stack. Tokenized assets, onchain credit, and settlement rails are the long-tail bet Birla flagged on Aug. 27. Execution now carries real risk: borrower defaults, counterparty failures, onchain vulnerabilities, and dilution if equity issuance outruns accretive XRP accumulation will all feed into the XPS math that the post-listing market will be watching.
Frequently asked questions
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When is Evernorth's Nasdaq vote and what will shareholders decide?
Armada Acquisition Corp. II shareholders vote Sept. 30 on a merger that would take Evernorth Holdings public on Nasdaq under XRPN, with the SEC having cleared Evernorth's registration statement on Aug. 27.
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How much XRP will Evernorth hold when it lists?
The company expects to enter the public market with more than 473.3 million XRP on its balance sheet, with plans to grow that figure through capital raises, institutional lending, DeFi yield, and ecosystem participation.
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Why does the 10 billion-share authorization matter?
The charter authorizes roughly 10B shares across four classes, but the SPAC merger only consumes about 34.5M Class A shares plus 11.5M warrants, so the remaining authorized capacity is the tool Evernorth can use to raise equity and buy more XRP after listing.
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What is XRP per share (XPS) and why is it the focus?
XPS is the central metric CEO Asheesh Birla has anchored the strategy around. Each share issuance or yield strategy is judged by whether it lifts total XRP holdings faster than the diluted share count grows.
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What are the main risks Evernorth faces after listing?
Three layers: dilution if equity issuance outruns accretive XRP accumulation, execution risk from lending, DeFi, liquidity provisioning and AI treasury tools, and continued price exposure to XRP itself, which remains the dominant driver of treasury value.
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