Ripple has acquired an equity stake in Flutterwave, a major African fintech company, valued at $3.3 billion. The deal aims to deepen Ripple's presence in Africa's growing cross-border payments market and will see Flutterwave integrate Ripple's stablecoin and XRP Ledger for faster, cheaper transactions.
Ripple has acquired an equity stake in Flutterwave, a major African fintech company, as part of its expansion into the continent's growing cross-border payments market. The deal will see Flutterwave integrate Ripple's stablecoin and XRP Ledger for faster, cheaper transactions.
The XRP Ledger (XRPL) attracted $1.9 billion in tokenized real-world asset capital over three months, surpassing Ethereum and Solana. While Ethereum still leads in total tokenized asset value, XRPL shows aggressive new capital inflow, driven by institutional commitments.
Stablecoin liquidity on the XRP Ledger (XRPL) has nearly doubled in a month, approaching $1 billion, largely due to Ripple's RLUSD. This surge supports Ripple's strategy to position XRPL as a payment rail for AI agents, enabling automated, fast, and rule-enforced transactions, a market projected to reach $183 billion by 2033.
The XRP Ledger (XRPL) faces a surge in fraud attempts, including fake airdrops and impersonation scams, as it attracts more institutional activity and higher transaction volumes, with warnings issued by David Schwartz and the XRP Ledger Foundation.
XRP rises 19% to $1.50, driven by whale accumulation, record network transactions, and bullish technicals, with potential upside to $2 if $1.50 resistance breaks.
XRPL holds $3.6 billion in real-world assets (excluding stablecoins), with $2.6 billion in represented assets and $1 billion in distributed. The JMWH energy token accounts for $1.76 billion—roughly half the total RWA value and 70% of the represented segment. Issued by Justoken in partnership with Argentine energy producer YPF Luz, JMWH represents one megawatt-hour of energy per token. The represented asset model uses blockchain as record-keeping infrastructure rather than for peer-to-peer transfer, aligning with XRPL's native compliance controls. While the Enertoken proof-of-concept suggests potential to push RWA value toward $4.5-5.5 billion, single-issuer concentration risk and competition from open distribution models present significant challenges.
Ripple announced a multi-stage plan to prepare the XRP Ledger for post-quantum cryptography with a 2028 target for full readiness, responding to Google Quantum AI research showing roughly 500,000 physical qubits may be enough to attack ECDLP-256 cryptography. The four-phase roadmap begins with contingency planning in 2026, followed by research and testing, controlled environments on Devnet, and a production transition involving a new XRPL amendment.
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