RLUSD stablecoin has surpassed a $1.6 billion market cap and has become one of the fastest-growing stablecoins since its December 2024 launch. Its increasing share of settlement activity on the XRP Ledger indicates broader real-world usage beyond early adopters. OKX listed RLUSD across more than 280 trading pairs and accepted it as institutional-grade margin collateral, with another major derivatives venue also doing so. RLUSD has earned margin collateral status on two regulated exchanges, placing it in the same risk tier as USDT and USDC, while XRP was not included in those deals. Additional XRP Ledger stablecoin activity and Ripple’s payment infrastructure expansion further position RLUSD as the primary settlement and fee asset, while XRP ETF inflows later weakened and XRP price declined sharply in 2026.
"Five spot XRP ETFs launched in late 2025 and pulled in over $1.41 billion in cumulative net inflows, making XRP the fastest digital asset to cross the $1 billion ETF milestone since Ethereum. Twenty consecutive days of inflows with no net outflows gave the impression that institutional money had finally found a permanent home in XRP. Then Goldman Sachs exited its $154 million XRP ETF position entirely in Q1 2026 while cutting its Ethereum exposure by 70%. Inflows slowed after that, and XRP, which opened 2026 at $2.42, has dropped more than 40% to around $1.30-$1.37 today."
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