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$GRVT Tracked stablecoins on the $XRP Ledger totaled $1.338 billion on Oct. 7. For $XRP holders, the critical question is how much activity uses the token as principal, and how long users or intermediaries need to hold it. Fees and account reserves require $XRP, the ledger's native token. Stablecoins, tokenized funds and securities records can keep their principal in other assets. Bridge routes and $XRP-funded liquidity pools create a separate reason to hold $XRP: inventory available to fill trades or payments. DefiLlama's XRPL dashboard showed Ripple's dollar stablecoin $RLUSD accounting for 93.17% of tracked stablecoins. The same snapshot reported $43.44 million in value locked in decentralized finance, $3.91 million in 24-hour decentralized-exchange volume and $528 in 24-hour chain fees. Each reading measures a different part of the ecosystem. Stablecoin supply is a balance, trading volume is turnover, and fees are a cost. Adding them together would mix those units and could count the same assets more than once. Ripple's Oct. 1 transparency figures put total $RLUSD circulation at $2,509.8 million, backed by $2,633.8 million in reserve funds. These issuer-wide figures cover $RLUSD across its supported blockchains. The backing consists of dollars and cash equivalents. How XRPL activity uses $XRP XRPL's standard minimum transaction cost is 10 drops, equivalent to 0.00001 $XRP, before load scaling. Fees are destroyed. Congestion and special transactions can require more, while an eligible key-reset transaction can be free. The fee follows the transaction's processing cost. Moving a larger asset value does not, by itself, increase the $XRP fee in proportion. Reserve requirements create a different obligation: currently 1 $XRP per account and generally 0.2 $XRP per qualifying owned ledger object. The first two trust lines are exempt when an account is funded with just the 1 $XRP base reserve; additional funding triggers normal charges. These balances scale with accounts and objects. They represent $XRP held to satisfy reserve rules; transaction fees consume $XRP through burning. Tokenized funds illustrate the distinction. Ondo's tokenized Treasury product OUSG went live on XRPL in June 2025 with subscriptions and redemptions using $RLUSD. In its Aug. 3, 2026 ZILO and Licuido announcement, Ripple likewise described $RLUSD as the cash leg for delivery-versus-payment transactions and tokenized funds as collateral. Brazil's securities project makes the record-keeping role explicit. Ripple announced on Sept. 29, 2026 that the securities infrastructure operator CSD BR would initially mirror BTG Pactual fund-share records on XRPL. CSD BR's own systems remain official for registration, deposit and settlement. Native issuance and trading among authorized participants are envisioned later, after the mirroring phase is validated. Ripple Payments has a broader scope than activity on XRPL. Its March 3, 2026 platform expansion included fiat and stablecoin collections and payouts, with Corpay using $RLUSD for funding and settlement. For lending, the documented Single Asset Vault design permits $XRP, trust-line tokens or Multi-Purpose Tokens. The Lending Protocol describes fixed-term, uncollateralized loans. $XRP-funded vaults would commit $XRP as loan principal. Inventory is the larger test $XRP's bridge role offers a route to larger liquidity demand. Auto-bridging can connect issued-token markets through $XRP when that route is cheaper, while direct routes or combinations of both remain possible. Cross-currency payments can also use $XRP conversion paths. A bridge can buy $XRP on one leg and sell it on another, creating a temporary need for the token during the transfer. The continuing inventory question is how much $XRP intermediaries keep available between trades. Gross turnover leaves that balance unmeasured. A direct $XRP payment also moves existing balances; the transfer alone establishes neither a fresh market purchase nor net accumulation. $XRP-containing AMM pools hold actual $XRP inventory while it remains deposited. Liquidity providers can redeem their shares. Pools containing two issued assets keep their trading principal in those assets. These ecosystem totals leave incremental $XRP demand per dollar of activity unquantified. The decisive measurements are the share of activity routed through $XRP, the $XRP balances committed to liquidity, and how long those balances stay in place.

As stablecoins move into regulated finance, APAC is becoming a key proving ground. This report maps the region’s rules, use cases, and RLUSD’s role. Why it matters: As stablecoins move into regulated finance, APAC is becoming a key proving ground. This report maps the region’s rules, use cases, and RLUSD’s role.

$GRVT The $XRP token ranked first in trading volume on South Korea's crypto market, overtaking Bitcoin and Ethereum, according to CoinMarketCap. A local surge in activity is keeping the asset's price in the $1.45–$1.52 range despite broader pressure on global markets. The token's rise to the top coincided with the conclusion of the $XRP Seoul 2026 conference, where a regional strategy for developing distributed ledger technology was presented. Analysts, however, are urging caution when assessing Korea's trading records. What's behind this (besides ordinary speculation) The main market catalyst was the outcome of behind-the-scenes talks during Seoul's crypto week. According to data from XRPL Foundation exec Vet, Kakao Bank (a South Korean digital bank with a customer base of 27 million) approved a plan to deploy its own blockchain infrastructure in 2027. The financial institution is analyzing the integration of the $XRP Ledger (XRPL) for custody services and the tokenization of real-world assets (RWA). Woori Bank and K Bank have also expressed interest in the ledger. To coordinate these initiatives, the $XRP Asia hub was announced at the event, with Sabrina Tachdjian at its head. At the same time, liquidity has flowed into the Agentic Economy sector, which focuses on AI agent micropayments. Infrastructure startup t54.ai, funded by Franklin Templeton, said the number of autonomous robot transactions over XRPL using the x402 protocol had exceeded 12 million. At a panel in Seoul, t54 representatives confirmed that this AI infrastructure is being prepared for automation, with both $XRP and the upcoming RLUSD stablecoin set to be used as settlement units. Despite the headlines, tracker data indicate that the token's lead in the local market is driven by domestic regulatory factors, not by a global shortage of the asset itself: Leverage ban: South Korea's legislative ban on margin trading forces retail traders to trade only on the spot market, artificially pushing individual assets to the top of turnover rankings. Technology barrier: Korean banks' integrations involve testing software for internal fiat settlements, which does not require them to buy the native token on the market. Microscopic fees: AI agents pay gas fees in tiny fractions of $XRP, so millions of robot transactions do not affect the market supply. Taking first place in South Korea by trading volume shows strong interest in the asset, as major businesses begin preparing the technical groundwork for future projects. However, the real impact of the banks' programs on the token's market value is delayed until full-scale platforms launch in 2027.

$GRVT Institutional credit marketplace Clearpool is officially changing its blockchain home as it prepares to replace its key asset. The project's community has overwhelmingly approved — with 97.16% voting in favor — a major expansion onto the $XRP Ledger (XRPL) and the full migration of its native $CPOOL token to a new asset, CLEAR. The move closes the strategic discussion phase and formally establishes the framework for an alliance with Ripple in the rapidly growing sector of on-chain lending backed by real-world assets (RWA Private Credit). Unlike traditional DeFi protocols built around speculative loans collateralized by volatile crypto assets, Clearpool is bringing infrastructure to XRPL for financing working capital in the real fintech sector. The deal's structure is pragmatic: the platform provides the technology rails and smart contracts, credit manager Cicada Partners audits borrowers and underwrites risk, while Ripple joins the pools as a limited partner. Financing will be conducted exclusively in the dollar stablecoin RLUSD (Ripple USD), giving the coin its first organic circulation among institutional investors. Custody provider Hex Trust, a longtime Ripple partner, will provide additional security and compliance bridges for the arrangement. Why replace one token with another? (And what does fee burning have to do with it?) The 1:1 token migration is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2026. The team is combining the process with a recapitalization: the initial supply of the new CLEAR asset will rise to 1.125 billion tokens, compared with $CPOOL's previous supply of one billion. To protect investors from dilution, 70% of the new supply will be distributed to current holders at launch. Developers plan to balance the remaining supply with a strict deflationary mechanism: exactly half of all fees collected by the platform will go to the open market to buy back and permanently burn CLEAR. The technological foundation for the expansion is also being built with future growth in mind. The product relies entirely on the ledger's native standards — XLS-65 (regulated single-asset pools) and XLS-66 (an unsecured lending protocol). In early October, these amendments are still being tested on Devnet, awaiting the required approval from 80% of validators before full deployment on the XRPL mainnet. The market, however, reacted to the vote's outcome well in advance. TradingView charts show that $CPOOL has firmly broken out of a year-long accumulation range of around $0.013–$0.020 and reached $0.036554. The current bullish momentum has pushed the price above the medium-term moving average at $0.028192, turning it into a strong support level. With the asset swap approaching in the fourth quarter, the nearest significant target for buyers remains the long-term resistance zone around $0.101003.