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In a recent video, a crypto-focused wealth commentator argued that a quiet but consequential shift is underway in tokenized real-world assets (RWAs): capital is leaving Ethereum and landing on the XRP Ledger, with potentially large implications for how institutional finance uses public blockchains.

Dr. Kamilah Stevenson said that over the past 30 days, the XRP Ledger has taken in roughly $1.5 billion in net new RWA inflows, while Ethereum saw about $1.2 billion in RWAs leave. Framed this way, the story is not about token prices but where “the actual tokenized financial paper of the real economy” chooses to settle.

Flow Data Flips: XRP Ledger Moves Into RWA Leadership

According to Kamilah Stevenson, the total tokenized RWA market across blockchains stands at around $32 billion, with tokenized U.S. Treasuries representing about 45% of that, or roughly $14 billion in sovereign debt now settling on public networks.

The largest single tokenized Treasury product cited is BlackRock’s BUIDL fund at about $2.4 billion in assets, alongside offerings from Franklin Templeton, Ondo Finance, Guggenheim, OpenEden and ARK’s ARK21Shares franchise. For years, the host noted, Ethereum was the “default destination” for almost all of this activity.

What has changed, she said, is net flow direction: XRP Ledger is now described as the number two chain globally by total tokenized RWA holdings and the number one by recent net inflows.

She framed this as a second-stage infrastructure shift, where capital migrates from the first workable rail (Ethereum L1) to the rail that better fits institutional requirements around fast, deterministic settlement, predictable costs and regulatory auditability.

Institutions Test XRP Rails As Infrastructure Builds Out

The video links the flow reversal to a flurry of institutional experiments and integrations. In the same period, the host said, JPMorgan’s Onyx platform, Mastercard, Ondo Finance and Ripple executed a live cross-border tokenized U.S. Treasury redemption on the XRP Ledger, reportedly settling in about five seconds.

Stevenson also cited Standard Chartered and Neuberger Berman in connection with a $200 million credit facility cleared for Ripple’s prime brokerage, the go-live of Ripple’s National Trust Bank charter bringing “ARUSD” inside the U.S. banking perimeter, and retail access expansions via Charles Schwab and SoFi, which she claimed now allow crypto or XRP access for tens of millions of accounts.

The analyst argued that regulated tokenized assets are beginning to separate from speculative DeFi activity, choosing XRP Ledger for compliance-focused settlement even as she continues to hold and stake Ethereum for other use cases.

For investors, the core claim is that if this migration persists, the “rail asset” XRP could see structural revaluation – but only those holding it in tax-advantaged or otherwise protective structures, she warned, will keep most of any upside.

The broader takeaway is straightforward: early RWA capital is starting to “vote” on chain preference.

If the first tens of billions in tokenized assets consolidate on XRP Ledger, the commentator suggests, the next wave of institutional-sized tokenization may simply follow the same rails.

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While the bears are causing havoc in crypto markets, real integration is going on behind the scenes. For Ripple’s XRP, the way to global cross-border corridors is dual: XRP could be chosen as a settlement asset due to the highly-demanded On-Demand Liquidity (ODL), directly tied to the OG altcoin.

Meanwhile, SWIFT’s remittances are upgrading with at least 25 Ripple-partnered banks this month. However, this on-chain pilot is not what it seems: the top-notch European financial conglomerate seeks to roll out the ISO 20022 global messaging standard with a multi-chain approach for banks to settle payments immediately.

Is Ripple’s XRP Joining SWIFT Multi-Bank Trials Now?

Ripple’s big-time infrastructure play has just taken another pivotal turn: XRP could be used as a bridge asset in the intersection of banks & blockchain. Ripple or XRP-tied banks included in the new SWIFT Payments Scheme pilot include HSBC, Standard Chartered, Santander, Deutsche Bank & Bank Of America. 

On the other hand, SWIFT’s Ripple-tied bank testing on blockchain rails is not directly applicable to XRP, as it utilizes a shared ledger that runs on Hyperledger Besu. This is a private, enterprise  permission-less blockchain ledger with no native public token. This enables a 24/7 quick transfer settlement for TradFi, while retaining full control over the process.

Where XRP Ends Up In SWIFT’s New Payment Puzzle

Even so, a cross-bridge settlement asset would be needed - whether it’s XRP or stablecoins, SWIFT could choose a digital asset that’s well-connected to the broader international banking system. RippleNet, the partner network centered around XRP, has over 300 major banks & payment providers on their list, making XRP an attractive option for SWIFT.

The big question is whether XRP falls in line with SWIFT’s enforceable rules well enough to handle trillions of dollars in transactions weekly. The technical setup is there. The appetite for Ripple’s XRP-based ODL consensus is especially evident in SWIFT’s July bank testing roster.

Santander is actively using RippleNet for international transfers in Europe, including Spain, Portugal, Poland & the United Kingdom. Meanwhile, Standard Chartered covers Middle East & Asia, exploring XRP’s ODL technique for liquidity purposes in high-volume payment routes.

Last but not least, SWIFT-compliant Deutsche Bank carried out multiple Ripple (XRP) pilots for cross-border corridor testing. The top German bank is testing a new clearance scheme that involves elements of XRP’s On-Demand Liquidity (ODL).

With SWIFT actively testing these banks for immediate settlement, the magnitude of XRP’s role as a bridge asset connecting different corridors is yet to be determined.

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After a rough few days, the OG token is now testing key February lows. Top Elliott Wave analyst More Crypto Online just highlighted the setup, warning that there’s still no clear confirmation of a bullish wave (c) to the upside.

Instead, he notes that B-waves can often overshoot to the downside — meaning XRP could still have more room to fall before any real recovery kicks in.

A break below the February 2026 lows could open the door to a test of $0.985, according to the analysis.

Support Levels Under Heavy Pressure

Right now, traders are laser-focused on a tight band of support. The immediate line in the sand sits around $1.14. A clean break below that level could quickly send price toward $1.10, and in a more bearish scenario, all the way down to the sub-$1 area.

Real-time momentum indicators are flashing big caution too. Relative strength (RSI) is creeping toward stronger oversold territory, while MACD signals remain hovering around the negative territory, showing buyers still lack real conviction on any rebounds.

Whale Flows Add To Market Tension

On-chain data isn’t helping calm nerves either. Whale withdrawals from major exchanges have dropped to levels not seen since 2021, which some interpret as big holders pausing rather than aggressively accumulating.

At the same time, ETF outflows have added to the overall cautious tone in recent sessions.

The Real Danger Zone For XRP Price

The bigger picture is a classic Elliott Wave stress test. If XRP can hold support and stay inside its broader uptrend structure, this could turn out to be nothing more than a healthy consolidation. 

But if selling accelerates and the February lows break cleanly, the next leg down could get ugly fast.

XRP’s current Elliott Wave setup is revealing a clear danger zone. The token is under pressure, testing important lows, and analysts are warning that a move toward $0.985 remains very much on the table if support fails.

Bulls need to defend these levels aggressively. If they don’t, the “overshoot to the downside” scenario could play out sooner than many expect.

The next few days will be crucial.

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The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has been laying the bricks for crypto integration ever since. Today, a surfaced segment from German television has alluded to exactly  that - a specific Digital Liquidity Token framework first published in March, 2025 is highlighting Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) based chains as the new liquidity corridors.

How DTCC Ignited Stellar’s ‘Utility Season’

DTCC had chosen Stellar for their traditional stock platform tokenization. By the same token, Stellar Lumens (XLM) & Ripple’s XRP coin become the centerpiece of the globe’s tokenization process - the digital transformation is roughly estimated at $114 trillion, practically turning the whole world into one convenient, vibrant & blockchain-powered marketplace.

With both Stellar Lumens (XLM) & Ripple (XRP) in the blueprint of this humongous $114 trillion tokenization process, crypto connoisseurs on both sides of the coin are actively comparing the current liquidity depth & capabilities to handle trillions in terms of transaction volume.

XRP vs. XLM: Same Direction, Two Methods

The Digital Liquidity Token Framework, dubbed by DTCC as ‘Patent US20250078162A1’ names XRP & XLM as potential payment routes due to rich cross-border architecture. Digging into the present numbers, DailyCoin’s research team found out Stellar’s cumulative RWA set is worth approximately $2.21 billion.

The figure makes perfect sense as DTCC is yet to deploy their ecosystem in the first quarter of 2027 - bringing all types of traditional securities, including:

It’s fair to say that this is the first time ever core United States market infrastructure deploys a multi-trillion combination of traditional stock market assets on a live public blockchain. However, bulls should hold onto their excitement into mid 2027, as unloading the whole $114 trillion deal all at once isn’t technically possible.

Paired with the tokenized stock versions running live on Stellar (XLM), the DTCC will maintain the official legal registry in parallel. As for XRP, the popular cross-border blockchain wasn’t directly mentioned in the past few weeks like Stellar by DTCC, but the solid connection is visible elsewhere.

To illustrate, Ripple’s deeply-routed connection with the DTCC stems from the patent it was mentioned in 2025 & the acquisition of Hidden Road in the same year. Less than a year after acquiring the company, Ripple joined DTCC’s NSCC (National Securities Clearing Corporation).

Ultimately, this allows institutional post-trade settlement & clearing to route onto the XRP Ledger. Since rebranding Hidden Road to Ripple Prime, the treasury has also joined DTCC’s Industry Working Group, specifically aimed at the tokenization market.

So, while the impact on Stellar’s (XLM) trading volumes, market capitalization & XLM’s price is expected to be high due to the direct tokenized asset issuance, the effect on Ripple’s XRP coin can be from mid to high, as the link is multi-layered, but not direct like Stellar’s.

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Ripple is making a big move in Turkey. Its regulated USD-backed stablecoin, Ripple USD (RLUSD), is now available to Turkish institutions through three major local partners: BiLira, Bitexen & Bitlo.

Since its launch in late 2024, RLUSD has quickly grown to a $1.7 billion market cap, earning strong adoption as a trusted, fully compliant digital dollar for payments, tokenization, and collateral.

“RLUSD is built for real financial use cases” said Jack McDonald, SVP of Stablecoins at Ripple. 

“Türkiye is a global leader in crypto adoption with nearly $200 billion in annual transaction volume. Bringing RLUSD here gives Turkish businesses a secure, transparent bridge to global liquidity.”

Why Turkey’s Adoption Matters To XRP Army

Turkey ranks among the top countries in the world for crypto adoption.

With strong local demand and a new regulatory framework from the Capital Markets Board, the country has evolved from retail speculation into a serious institutional market — making it the perfect launchpad for an enterprise-grade stablecoin.

BiLira, Bitexen & Bitlo are now offering RLUSD to their users, giving Turkish businesses and institutions easy access to a stable, regulated USD digital asset.

Ripple Teams Up With Istanbul Technical University

In another big move, Ripple announced Istanbul Technical University (ITU) as its newest partner in the University Blockchain Research Initiative (UBRI).

The partnership includes funding via RLUSD and will see an XRP Ledger validator deployed directly on campus to support research and education.

Ripple is doubling down on Turkey — one of the most dynamic crypto markets in the world — by bringing RLUSD and strengthening ties with both industry leaders and top academic institutions.  

With $1.7 billion already in circulation and growing institutional demand, RLUSD is quickly becoming the go-to regulated stablecoin for serious players in emerging markets.

The Turkish expansion just turned up the heat for Ripple’s stablecoin strategy.

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XRP is getting attention for an unusual reason: money keeps flowing into XRP investment products even as the token itself drifts lower and technical signals flash yellow.

While XRP hovers in the mid-$1.20s with weakening momentum, XRP-linked ETFs and funds are quietly pulling in serious inflows.

One widely followed estimate showed $131.94 million in net inflows for XRP products in May — outperforming both Bitcoin and Ethereum products during a choppy month.

Recovering ETF Inflows vs. XRP’s Price Action

This creates a classic divergence: price looks soft, but institutional interest through regulated products is growing.

At the same time, on-chain data tells its own story. XRP Ledger transactions jumped 35% in Q1 even as the token’s price fell 27%. Real-world asset (RWA) activity on the ledger also exploded, rising 124% to roughly $2.25 billion.

The network is getting busier while the token price stays under pressure — a sign that real utility may be building underneath the surface.

XRP Whales, Seasonality & Technical Warnings

Not everything looks bullish though. Some exchange data shows large-holder withdrawals have dropped to levels not seen since 2021. Analysts are also pointing to historical seasonality charts that suggest June has often been rough for XRP in past cycles.

Technical indicators are flashing caution too. Relative strength readings are nearing oversold territory, but trend signals remain bearish overall. This setup typically attracts short-term bargain hunters, but it can also lead to more downside if support levels break.

Kalshi’s Perp Futures Move Adds Another Layer

Adding fuel to the conversation, prediction market platform Kalshi is reportedly seeking CFTC approval for XRP perpetual futures (alongside SHIB). If approved, this could bring more leverage and liquidity to XRP trading in a regulated U.S. environment.

In a nutshell, Ripple’s XRP coin is in an interesting spot. Institutional money is flowing into ETFs, on-chain activity is expanding, and new derivatives products may be coming.

Yet XRP's price action remains cautious, and technical signals are mixed.

This isn’t a classic momentum rally — it’s a slow, behind-the-scenes institutional buildup meeting retail hesitation. Whether the inflows and network growth can overcome the current technical weakness will likely decide XRP’s next major move.

The spotlight is back on XRP… but this time, it’s the quiet money doing the talking.

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A crypto analyst with a strong economics background is making a blunt claim about Ripple’s breakout year: the company’s success with its new stablecoin RLUSD may be undermining the very XRP “utility” story that powered its community for a decade.

In a long-form breakdown, book author Dana Love argues that Ripple’s record 2024–2025 run — capped by a $40 billion valuation, major acquisitions and institutional integrations — is being driven by stablecoin economics and enterprise plumbing, not by rising fundamental demand for XRP itself.

RLUSD Explodes As XRP Becomes “The Toll, Not the Real Estate”

Ripple launched RLUSD in December 2024 on both Ethereum and the XRP Ledger. Within a year, it had climbed into the top 10 stablecoins, with market cap jumping from roughly $132 million to about $1.6 billion.

Institutions from Deutsche Bank to MasterCard and BlackRock’s Securitize-linked tokenized treasury fund are using Ripple’s infrastructure, with RLUSD increasingly at the center.

The analyst walks through the XRP Ledger’s design: a native DEX, automated market makers, and XRP as the built-in bridge asset. On paper, RLUSD growth should deepen RLUSD–XRP pools, lower slippage, and increase XRP’s role as a routing asset — a core pillar of the XRP “utility” thesis.

But the YouTube video draws a sharp distinction between throughput and value accrual. XRP, in this framing, is the settlement bridge held for seconds, while RLUSD is the unit of account that users actually hold.

“The toll road carries the value. The real estate captures it. RLUSD is the real estate. XRP is the toll road,” Love says, noting that XRP’s transaction fee on XRPL is about 0.0000011 XRP — effectively a rounding error even on multimillion-dollar transfers.

Ethereum, Forced Migration & The 14-Million XRP Burn Issue

Most RLUSD activity initially gravitated to Ethereum, where DeFi liquidity and yield opportunities are deeper. At one point, more than 80% of the RLUSD supply reportedly lived on Ethereum, powering Aave and other protocols — and paying fees to Ethereum validators, not benefiting XRP holders.

Ripple is now actively pulling supply back. In one May transaction, the company burned $100 million in RLUSD on Ethereum and minted $200 million on the XRP Ledger.

Even so, the analyst notes that after 14 years of XRPL operation, total XRP burned via transaction fees is only about 14 million out of 100 billion, underscoring how little value the network’s throughput has captured for the token.

Ripple’s Second Engine: Stablecoin Yield & Institutional Pipes

To explain Ripple’s strategy, Dana Love focuses on incentives. For years, Ripple funded itself by selling pre-mined XRP via OTC channels while locking and unlocking escrow. That model hit legal and practical limits, especially during the SEC lawsuit.

RLUSD changes the equation. As a fully backed stablecoin, it generates recurring yield on reserve assets (primarily Treasuries), plus issuance and redemption fees.

Ripple has paired this with aggressive M&A: a $1.25 billion acquisition of prime broker Hidden Road (rebranded Ripple Prime) and a $1 billion purchase of G Treasury, which handles $12.5 trillion in annual payment volume for large corporates. These are infrastructure businesses where RLUSD, not XRP, is the primary revenue driver.

When Ripple raised $500 million at a $40 billion valuation in late 2025 from Fortress, Citadel Securities, Galaxy Digital and others, several investors reportedly estimated that about 90% of Ripple’s net asset value was XRP sitting on its balance sheet.

Yet they bought equity, not the token — gaining upside exposure to XRP plus downside protection and liquidation preference. “Same bet on XRP. Just better terms and an earlier exit,” the analyst notes.

Utility vs. Financial Demand & Why Clarity Matters More Than ODL

The video is explicit: the idea that XRP price will be driven by network usage and cross-border payment volume is, in the analyst’s view, effectively dead. RLUSD is handling the cross-border leg in Ripple’s own documentation; XRP’s main functional role on that path is account activation and a tiny fee.

Dana Love instead points to a different engine: financial demand via regulated access, mirroring Bitcoin’s trajectory. XRP ETFs launched in late 2025 and have attracted around $1.4 billion in inflows so far, but that has not translated into upward price pressure yet.

Everything now turns on the U.S. “Clarity” market structure bill, which passed Senate Banking Committee 15–9 on May 14 but still needs 60 votes on the Senate floor and subsequent rulemaking, likely pushing real impact to 2027.

If XRP is formally classified as a digital commodity, major institutions, ETFs and insurance vehicles could hold it as an asset, regardless of whether they use it for payments.

For investors, Dana Love's message is stark: Ripple’s operational success is increasingly decoupled from XRP’s on-chain utility. Any future upside may depend less on On-Demand Liquidity (ODL) volumes or RLUSD growth and more on whether U.S. regulators flip the switch that lets big money simply hold XRP at scale.

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Kalshi just dropped a bold move that could bring two of crypto’s most popular tokens much closer to mainstream U.S. trading.

The prediction market and trading platform has filed with the CFTC to launch perpetual futures for both XRP coin and Shiba Inu (SHIB).

This comes hot on the heels of the CFTC approving Bitcoin’s (BTC) perpetuals, signaling that the door for more crypto derivatives in the U.S. might finally be opening.

XRP & SHIB Perps: One Filing, Two Stories

If approved, these products would mark a big step for both tokens. XRP coin brings serious liquidity and institutional infrastructure, while SHIB represents the wild, meme-fueled side of crypto with high volatility and massive retail interest.

Having both in the same application shows Kalshi isn’t limiting itself to “safe” assets.

Perpetual futures — contracts that never expire and use funding rates to stay close to spot price — are already hugely popular offshore. Bringing them onshore under U.S. regulation could shift meaningful liquidity back to America.

Why This Filing Matters a Lot

This isn’t just another derivative product. It’s a test of how far the CFTC is willing to go after greenlighting Bitcoin perps.

For crypto market aficionados, regulated perpetuals in the United States (USA) could mean way better transparency, stronger market surveillance & a lot more legitimate leverage options compared to popular offshore platforms.

The Broader Picture For XRP

Perpetual futures are powerful tools — they influence price discovery, amplify moves during volatility, and can trigger big liquidation cascades, especially on sentiment-driven assets like SHIB.

If Kalshi gets the green light, it could significantly boost both XRP and SHIB’s visibility and trading activity in the U.S.

In a nutshell, Kalshi is testing the waters for XRP and SHIB perpetual futures right after Bitcoin got approved.

This could be the start of a much bigger wave of U.S.-regulated crypto derivatives. Whether it happens quickly or hits regulatory walls will say a lot about where American crypto policy is really headed.

The memecoins, along with the serious players, may both be getting a seat at the table soon.

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