Ripple Is Closing Bank Deals Every Week: Why XRP Holders Aren’t Seeing the Benefit
Key takeaways
- Three of the deals didn’t touch the XRP Ledger at all, and the seven that did used RLUSD with XRP used only to pay tiny network fees averaging $0.0002 per transaction.
- Only 40% of RippleNet’s over 300 global partners use Ripple’s On-Demand Liquidity service, which is the only product that actually uses XRP as a settlement asset.
- The analyst who called NVIDIA in 2010 just named his top 10 AI stocks.
Ripple Is Closing Bank Deals Every Week: Why XRP Holders Aren’t Seeing the Benefit Sam Daodu Sat, May 16, 2026 at 10:07 PM GMT+7 6 min read XRP-USD MA Quick Read Ripple has closed ten major deals in 2026 so far, with Deutsche Bank ($1.7T in total assets), Société Générale ($1.8T AUM), JPMorgan, and Mastercard’s $9 trillion payment network, among them, yet XRP holders aren’t benefiting.
None of the ten deals created direct XRP demand. Three of the deals didn’t touch the XRP Ledger at all, and the seven that did used RLUSD with XRP used only to pay tiny network fees averaging $0.0002 per transaction.
Only 40% of RippleNet’s over 300 global partners use Ripple’s On-Demand Liquidity service, which is the only product that actually uses XRP as a settlement asset.