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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001213900-25-026513
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	CORRESP
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		1
FILED AS OF DATE:		20250331

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			Republic Digital Acquisition Co
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0002055459
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	BLANK CHECKS [6770]
		ORGANIZATION NAME:           	05 Real Estate & Construction
		EIN:				000000000
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			E9
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		CORRESP

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		149 5TH AVENUE
		CITY:			NEW YORK
		STATE:			NY
		ZIP:			10010
		BUSINESS PHONE:		5859102306

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		149 5TH AVENUE
		CITY:			NEW YORK
		STATE:			NY
		ZIP:			10010
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify"><B>VIA EDGAR </B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">March 31, 2025</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">Division of Corporation Finance</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">Office of Real Estate &amp; Construction</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">100 F Street, NE</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">Washington, D.C. 20549</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">Attention: Catherine De Lorenzo and Dorrie Yale</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: 0.5in"><B>Re: Republic Digital Acquisition Company</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: 0.5in"><B>Registration Statement on Form S-1</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: 0.5in"><B>Filed February 28, 2025</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: 0.5in"><B>File No. 333-285386</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: 0.5in">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">Dear Ms. Lorenzo and Ms. Yale:</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-indent: 0.5in">Republic Digital Acquisition Company (the &ldquo;<B>Company</B>&rdquo;)
hereby transmits its response to the comment letter received from the staff (the &ldquo;<B>Staff</B>&rdquo;) of the U.S. Securities and
Exchange Commission (the &ldquo;<B>Commission</B>&rdquo;) on March 27, 2025 relating to the Registration Statement on Form S-1 (the &ldquo;<B>Registration
Statement</B>&rdquo;), filed by the Company with the Commission on February 28, 2025.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-indent: 0.5in">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-indent: 0.5in">The Company is filing via EDGAR Amendment No.
1 to Registration Statement on Form S-1 (the &ldquo;<FONT STYLE="text-decoration: none"><B>Amended Registration Statement</B></FONT>&rdquo;),
which reflects responses to the comments received by the Staff and certain updated information.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-indent: 0.5in">For the Staff&rsquo;s convenience, we have repeated
below the Staff&rsquo;s comment in bold and have followed each comment with the Company&rsquo;s response. All page references in the responses
set forth below refer to the page numbers in the Amended Registration Statement.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><B>&nbsp;</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><B><U>Registration Statement on Form S-1</U></B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><B><U>Cover Page</U></B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><B>&nbsp;</B></P>

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<TD STYLE="width: 0.25in"></TD><TD STYLE="width: 0.25in"><B>1.</B></TD><TD><B>We refer to your disclosure here that the conversion of
                                            Class B ordinary shares may result in material dilution to your public shareholders due to
                                            anti-dilution rights of the Class B ordinary shares. Please revise to clarify that if you
                                            increase or decrease the size of the offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities
                                            Act, you will effect a share capitalization or other mechanism with respect to your Class
                                            B shares so as to maintain the ownership of founder shares by the initial shareholders, on
                                            an as converted basis, at approximately 20% of your issued and outstanding ordinary shares
                                            upon consummation of the offering, as you explain elsewhere. Please also disclose the number
                                            of founder shares to be issued to your independent directors on the cover page. Please refer
                                            to Item 1602(a)(3) of Regulation S-K.</B></TD></TR></TABLE>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0 0pt 0.5in"><B>Response: </B>We acknowledge the Staff&rsquo;s comment
and have provided additional disclosure on the cover page of the Amended Registration Statement.</P>
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><B>&nbsp;</B></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><B><U>Summary</U></B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><B><U>Sponsor Information, page 11</U></B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>

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<TD STYLE="width: 0.25in"></TD><TD STYLE="width: 0.25in"><B>2.</B></TD><TD><B>Please revise the table to also discuss the founder shares
                                            to be received by your directors, as you mention that each director will receive such shares.
                                            Refer to Item 1602(b)(6) of Regulation S-K.</B></TD></TR></TABLE>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0 0pt 0.5in">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0 0pt 0.5in"><B>Response: </B>We acknowledge the Staff&rsquo;s comment
and have added disclosure to the tables on pages 12 and 111 of the Amended Registration Statement.</P>
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<TD STYLE="width: 0.25in"></TD><TD STYLE="width: 0.25in"><B>3.</B></TD><TD><B>Please include a discussion of the experience of the SPAC
                                            sponsor, its affiliates, and any promoters in organizing special purpose acquisition companies
                                            and the extent to which the SPAC sponsor, its affiliates, and the promoters are involved
                                            in other special purpose acquisition companies. In that regard, we note your reference on
                                            page 115 to your management team and their prior SPACs. Please refer to Item 1603(a)(3) of
                                            Regulation S-K.</B></TD></TR></TABLE>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0 0pt 0.5in">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0 0pt 0.5in"><B>Response: </B>We acknowledge the Staff&rsquo;s comment
and note that only Mr. Robert Matza, a director nominee, has any prior SPAC experience. Mr. Matza served as an independent director on
two prior SPACs; however, he does not have a material interest in our sponsor, is not an affiliate of our sponsor, and is not an executive
officer of the Company. The Company has expanded Mr. Matza&rsquo;s biography on pages 6, 105 and 140 of the Amended Registration Statement
to provide additional disclosure about the two prior SPACs for which he served as an independent director. None of our sponsor, its affiliates,
or any promoters of the Company is involved with any other special purpose acquisition companies.</P>
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><B><U>We may not be able to complete an initial business combination
because such initial business combination may be subject to..., page 64</U></B></P>

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<TD STYLE="width: 0.25in"></TD><TD STYLE="width: 0.25in"><B>4.</B></TD><TD><B>Please revise to clarify whether any members of the sponsor are, or have</B> <B>substantial ties with, a non-U.S. person, and if so,
please expand this risk factor to discuss this information.</B></TD></TR></TABLE>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0 0pt 0.5in"><B>Response: </B>We acknowledge the Staff&rsquo;s
comment and have added disclosure on 65 of the Amended Registration Statement.</P>
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-indent: 0.5in"><B>&nbsp;</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><B><U>Underwriting, page 187</U></B></P>

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<TD STYLE="width: 0.25in"></TD><TD STYLE="width: 0.25in"><B>5.</B></TD><TD><B>We note your disclosure on page 23 that the private placement
                                            warrants to be purchased by Cantor Fitzgerald &amp; Co. are deemed by FINRA to be underwriters&rsquo;
                                            compensation. Please revise to include the private placement warrants in tabular format in
                                            the underwriter&rsquo;s compensation section. Refer to Item 508(e) of Regulation S-K.</B></TD></TR></TABLE>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0 0pt 0.5in"><B>Response: </B>We acknowledge the Staff&rsquo;s comment
and added more disclosure to the table on page 189 of the Amended Registration Statement.</P>
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center">***</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">We thank the Staff for its review of the foregoing.
If you have further comments, please feel free to contact to our counsel, Stuart Neuhauser, at sneuhauser@egsllp.com or by telephone at
(212) 370-1300.</P>

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    <TD STYLE="width: 40%; text-align: justify"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Sincerely,</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="border-bottom: Black 1.5pt solid; text-align: justify"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt"><I>/s/ Joseph Naggar</I></FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Joseph Naggar, Chief Executive Officer</FONT></TD></TR>
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">cc: Ellenoff Grossman &amp; Schole LLP</P>

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