Evernorth, a treasury company built around XRP, has cleared the final major obstacle to going public after shareholders of Armada Acquisition Corp. II approved the merger between the two companies, setting the stage for a Nasdaq listing next week.

Shareholders of Armada Acquisition Corp. II, the blank-check company Evernorth is merging with, voted to approve the business combination at a meeting on Sept. 30, the company said Wednesday, per an official announcement. The deal is expected to close on Oct. 7, with Evernorth's Class A common stock slated to begin trading on Oct. 8 under the ticker "XRPN." Blank-check companies like Armada are shells that list with no operations specifically to merge with a private business, giving it a route to public markets without a traditional IPO of its own.

The merger and related fundraising have pulled in more than $1 billion. The transaction itself is expected to generate roughly $300 million in gross cash proceeds before expenses, including $225 million from private placements, $30 million in convertible note financing, and about $48 million in trust proceeds.

Investors also contributed XRP directly. At closing, Evernorth expects to hold about 473 million XRP, which it says would make it the "largest publicly traded pure-play" XRP treasury company. The firm said 100% of its committed funders are participating.

"Going public will offer investors a regulated, transparent way to own XRP exposure and participate in the growth of the blockchain economy," said Asheesh Birla, Evernorth's founder and CEO.

Evernorth is backed by a roster of crypto heavyweights, including Ripple, Pantera Capital, Kraken, SBI Group, GSR, and Arrington Capital. The company first unveiled its plan to go public alongside a $685 million XRP stash, part of a Ripple-backed effort to raise $1 billion to accumulate the token. It cleared SEC review when its registration statement took effect in late August.

The listing adds XRP to the booming digital-asset treasury trend, in which public companies raise capital to stockpile a single crypto asset and tie their share price to it—a model pioneered by Michael Saylor's Strategy with Bitcoin.

Evernorth said it intends to grow its XRP per share over time through yield strategies, ecosystem participation, and capital-markets activity—a yardstick that mirrors the bitcoin-per-share accumulation metrics tracked by bitcoin treasury firms.

The structure carries the familiar risk of the category: the company's fortunes will track XRP's price, which can swing sharply in either direction.