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RLUSD Just Crossed $1.6 Billion Market Cap: Here’s Why It’s Not Helping XRP
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- But XRP’s only role across all that activity is collecting 0.00001 XRP per transaction in network fees.
- Ripple closed ten major deals in 2026, and not a single one used XRP as the settlement asset.
- Five XRP ETFs have pulled in $1.41 billion in cumulative inflows since late 2025.
RLUSD Just Crossed $1.6 Billion Market Cap: Here’s Why It’s Not Helping XRP NMStudio789 / Shutterstock.com Sam Daodu Tue, May 26, 2026 at 5:49 PM GMT+7 6 min read XRP-USD Quick Read RLUSD has grown from $132 million to over $1.6 billion in market cap since its December 2024 launch. But XRP’s only role across all that activity is collecting 0.00001 XRP per transaction in network fees.
Ripple closed ten major deals in 2026, and not a single one used XRP as the settlement asset.
Five XRP ETFs have pulled in $1.41 billion in cumulative inflows since late 2025. Goldman Sachs has already exited its position, and XRP is still down more than 40% on the year.
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