Ripple wants AI agents to pay in XRP and RLUSD. The market is still mostly USDC

Ripple wants AI agents to pay in XRP and RLUSD. The market is still mostly USDC is being tracked by Portal2Earn as a news signal from CoinDesk.

The XRPL AI Starter Kit gives developers tools for agent payments, but early x402 activity has clustered on Base and Solana. Ripple’s bet is that XRPL’s speed, low fees and RLUSD can win a piece of that flow.

The item should be reviewed as a market signal rather than treated as verified operational fact.

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