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Open-source blockchain network launched in 2012, powering the XRP cryptocurrency and used for payments, tokenized assets, and stablecoins like RLUSD.
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 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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Ripple has signed Meritz Securities to explore custody and tokenization, its fourth Korean partner of 2026 and the first securities firm. The work starts inside Meritz's existing permissions and has no launch date.
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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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Evernorth named Coinbase veteran Hugo Jeandesboz chief investment officer as XRPN began trading on Nasdaq with about 473 million XRP. His mandate is yield on a stack Cointelegraph prices at $657 million and Cryptobriefing at $672 million.
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Researchers found an integer overflow in the XRPL payment engine that could theoretically have created XRP from nothing. The 18 trillion XRP figure came from controlled testing, and a dev.to write-up says nobody minted it on the public ledger.
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Ripple paid Veria Labs the $250,000 program maximum for an XRP Ledger bug that could have minted about 18.45 trillion XRP. ZachXBT called the sum too small and warned it could tempt the next finder to exploit instead of report.
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XRP Ledger developers disclosed an integer-overflow bug in xrpld 3.4.0 and earlier that could have minted XRP beyond its 100-billion supply cap. The patch skipped the validator vote, so the cap's defence rested on one team and on node operators upgrading fast.
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XRP Ledger developers pushed an emergency patch on September 25 for a 2015 integer overflow that could have minted XRP past its supply cap. Skipping the usual two-week validator vote has reopened the argument over how decentralized its security response is.
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Doppler Finance's XRP vault passed 90 million XRP on Oct. 12, up about 76% from 51.09 million on Feb. 27, according to its transparency reports. As much as 83% of that gain was in hand by June 19, before Evernorth's Nasdaq listing.
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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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RippleX fixed a 2015-era XRP Ledger bug that let one payment create spendable XRP beyond the token's 100 billion supply cap. Both built-in safeguards would have missed it, so the cap's record on public networks rests on RippleX's finding of no exploitation.
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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 Batch amendment went live on mainnet with 30 of 35 validators in favour, letting one operation bundle two to eight transactions. In its all-or-nothing mode one failed leg stops the rest, so OTC and delivery-versus-payment trades can settle on the ledger itself.
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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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