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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- Builder 28%
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- Operator 30%
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- Investor 42%
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- Evidence60
- Adoption80
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives60
- Confidence62
XRP Ledger's 13.5 million AI-agent payments have settled 12,010 RLUSD and 6,982 XRP
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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- Evidence45
- Adoption25
- Hype gap+55
- Incentives80
- Confidence55
XRP Ledger's Permission Delegation splits payment and compliance duties without capping amounts
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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- Evidence58
- Adoption30
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives65
- Confidence45
Paxos added XRP, a token worth nearly $95 billion, to its Crypto Brokerage platform on October 7, opening it to clients such as PayPal and Schwab. Retail buyers get it only when a partner lists it, a step Schwab's August token plan did not take.
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- Builder 18%
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- Operator 47%
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- Investor 35%
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- Evidence72
- Adoption15
- Hype gap+35
- Incentives60
- Confidence70
XRP Asia, backed by Ripple and the XRP Ledger Foundation, launched in Singapore on Oct. 3 to connect Asia-Pacific XRPL builders with grants and partners. The grants it points to are Ripple's older programs, and the best documented of them offered up to $200,000 per Japanese project starting in June 2025.
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- Evidence55
- Adoption20
- Hype gap+35
- Incentives70
- Confidence60