RLUSD is Ripple's U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoin, issued on the XRP Ledger and Ethereum and backed by cash and cash-equivalent reserves.
Cross River Bank will let fintech clients send Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin through the same connection as ACH and wires, in a limited number of US states. The speed claims come from the companies' own release.
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Ripple Prime opened 24/7 perpetual swaps on more than 100 traditional markets to institutions on October 15, with Virtu among its clients. The swaps reference perpetual futures that Trade.xyz lists on Hyperliquid, so the weekend price they track is set on a crypto venue.
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Ripple and DriveWealth will settle in RLUSD on the XRP Ledger across a brokerage network of more than 100 partners, starting in Europe. The companies did not disclose volumes or fees, so the only size on offer is the partner count.
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DriveWealth, whose network powers investing for more than 100 partners, is integrating Ripple's RLUSD for European settlement, with the US planned. The announcement says partners could gain flexibility to fund outside bank-transfer hours. It does not say how many will use it.
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Standard Chartered opened institutional custody of Ripple's RLUSD on the XRP Ledger on Oct. 12, a token with about $2.4 billion in circulation. The plan to post it as LMAX collateral has no launch date and still needs testing, documentation and approvals.
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XRPL Commons will let more than 400 registered builders test XRP Ledger lending amendments XLS-65 and XLS-66 on Oct. 24-25, with no mainnet date set. Validators have yet to approve either, so any lending exposure on the ledger remains prospective.
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Stripe-owned Privy is bringing its wallets to the XRP Ledger, where Ripple says agents have made 13 million payments. Ripple is the only source for that count. The announcements leave developers free to settle in XRP or in other assets.
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Standard Chartered Singapore targets end-2026 for institutional crypto, stablecoin and tokenized-asset custody, pending regulatory approval. Until the bank lists supported assets, the claim that it will hold Ripple's RLUSD rests on an X post.
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XRP Ledger payments by AI agents over the x402 protocol passed 13 million across 166 merchants, RippleX engineering head J. Ayo Akinyele said on October 10. On the tracker run by Ripple-backed t54, they have settled less than one RLUSD per thousand payments, so merchants are getting traffic with very little income behind it so far.
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XRP Ledger activated PermissionDelegationV1_1 on Oct. 8, letting account owners hand specific jobs to helper accounts while their main keys stay offline. Until a fix for a token-burning flaw activates, operators can safely hand off fewer jobs than the feature allows.
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Ripple Prime writes total return swaps for US leveraged ETFs and collects the financing fees, while XRP fell more than 8% in a week to $1.39. Swap clients need no XRP, so the revenue builds Ripple's value without adding token demand.
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XRP Ledger's Permission Delegation went live Oct. 8, letting institutions hand specific transaction rights to other accounts without sharing primary keys. Because the grants cannot carry spending limits, institutions keep their own checks on how much a delegate sends.
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Mastercard CEO Michael Miebach said Oct. 9 that cross-border payments are stablecoins' strongest use, citing OUSD, a coin Visa and Stripe also back. His biggest stablecoin deal, up to $1.8 billion for BVNK per Crypto Briefing, buys tools to hold and convert whichever coin businesses pick.
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XRP Ledger held $1.338 billion in tracked stablecoins on Oct. 7 while its chain fees for the day came to $528, DefiLlama data show. Because fees and reserves scale with transactions and accounts, how much XRP that base needs depends on the inventory that bridges and liquidity pools keep between trades.
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Ripple Prime will act as prime broker, clearer and lender to funds of Brevan Howard, a $35 billion manager whose affiliated funds invested in Ripple in 2025. That makes those funds both Ripple's investors and its borrowers, though neither firm disclosed how much business moves.
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Ripple is financing leveraged stock ETFs through its prime brokerage arm, a business it entered by buying Hidden Road for $1.25 billion. The fees come with exposure to client funds that one large move in a single stock can wipe out.
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Meritz Securities signed a Ripple custody study on Oct. 1 while weighing five digital-asset lines, spot crypto ETFs among them. With no product or launch date attached, any payoff waits on what Korea's coming rules let brokers sell.
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Ripple is pitching Turkey's nearly $200 billion crypto market with Garanti BBVA custody and its RLUSD dollar token on local exchanges. The bank's vault and the token sit in separate channels, so a Turkish customer hedging the lira on-chain still goes through an exchange.
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XRP Ledger x402 payments ran at about 525,000 a day over the latest week, taking the total from 1 million in July to 11,965,947 by Oct. 3. The count shows software paying for services at volume, but it is a tally of payments published without a dollar value.
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Korea's regulators sorted crypto into plumbing and wagering, approving a bank remittance rail while cutting off a prediction market. XRP fell below $1 anyway.
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