Mastercard is sponsoring the XRPL Hackathon in New York on October 24-25, 2026, an event that gathers developers, investors, and financial leaders to innovate blockchain-based finance. The hackathon features four tracks including protocol innovation, AI-driven autonomous finance, lending and borrowing on the XRP Ledger, and open ideas. Mastercard's involvement highlights its growing interest in blockchain, stablecoins, and programmable payments, potentially bridging XRPL innovations with mainstream finance. This event could signal the next evolution of XRPL into a broader ecosystem integrating AI, tokenized assets, and decentralized lending.
Rich, host of Common Sense Crypto, considers XRP trading above $3.40 a conservative estimate given upcoming regulatory decisions, tokenization growth, and potential ETF demand. He challenges market cap limits on XRP's price, emphasizing its role in p...
Ripple is urging the XRP Ledger community to withdraw the long-standing XChainBridge (XLS-38) amendment, which was designed to enable cross-chain bridging on the network. The company cites a lack of developer demand and the fact that Axelar's network...
21Shares has changed the pricing benchmark for its U.S. XRP exchange-traded fund (ETF) TOXR from the CME CF XRP-Dollar Reference Rate to the FTSE XRP Index, effective August 27. This change affects only the pricing methodology and does not alter the ...
Despite record $1.566 billion inflows into XRP ETFs, XRP's price has pulled back, showing a supply-demand imbalance and cautious investor sentiment. Institutional interest remains, but price fluctuations are driven by ETF flows, whale accumulation, a...
As XRP's price surged to $1.5, AI agents on the XRP Ledger shifted their on-chain transactions towards Ripple's USD stablecoin, RLUSD, increasing its volume by 103% over seven days. This move helps AI systems hedge against XRP's price volatility, mai...
