XRP Ledger

SBI Holdings president Yoshitaka Kitao has voiced support for Ripple’s newly unveiled 2026 plans to grow the XRP Ledger ecosystem, a notable endorsement from a major Japanese financial group.

Vet, an XRPL validator, flagged a bug in batch transactions affecting the fixBatchInnerSigs amendment, prompting a delay to the network upgrade while a patch is prepared and tested.

Ripple senior executive Reece Merrick announced a new XRP Ledger capability tied to Dubai’s real estate tokenization initiative, aiming to enable on‑ledger trading of tokenized property. The move may broaden XRP’s utility and attract new liquidity to the network.

Binance has added support for Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin on the XRP Ledger, Ripple MD Reece Merrick announced. The integration broadens on‑chain stablecoin utility for the XRP ecosystem and could lift liquidity and payment rails.

Binance announced on Jan. 21 it will list RLUSD for spot trading on Ethereum, offering zero-fee trading incentives and multichain access. XRP Ledger integration is planned next, extending on‑ledger use cases.

XRP slipped under $2 amid a broad market sell-off, even as spot ETF inflows and a surge in XRP Ledger activity signaled underlying demand. The move highlights weak investor sentiment despite positive on-chain and institutional indicators.

At Binance Blockchain Week, Ripple’s Reece Merrick announced a collaboration with Mastercard to modernize payment rails, emphasizing XRP and RLUSD on the XRP Ledger as key tools for improving value transfer.

Vet, an XRP Ledger dUNL validator, summarized CTO David Schwartz’s vision for bringing advanced smart contracts to the XRP Ledger in a recent tweet thread. The breakdown highlights design priorities and potential implications for XRP's developer ecosystem.