Ripple's Senior Director of Engineering, Ayo Akinyele, has announced a 2026 privacy roadmap for the XRP Ledger, focusing on zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) to facilitate private and compliant transactions for institutional DeFi. The initiative's first application, confidential Multi-Purpose Tokens (MPTs), is scheduled for a Q1 2026 launch, aimed at enhancing privacy-preserving collateral management. The XRP Ledger community is actively working on prototyping ZKP integrations, collaborating with partners such as Hidden Road to advance these privacy solutions. This development marks a significant step towards enhancing transaction privacy and compliance on the XRP Ledger.