XRPL AI Payments Jumps 29% as XRP Falls, RLUSD Hits $2.4B
AI-driven payments using XRP and Ripple USD are approaching 4 million transactions, but the more notable development may be how quickly the activity is accelerating. Data cited by t54 show approximately 3,992,146 agentic transactions have settled through its XRP Ledger x402 infrastructure. That compares with roughly 3.1 million on Sept. 1, implying almost 892,000 additional transactions in four days, or growth of about 29%. The activity comes as XRP itself trades around $1.40, down roughly 4% over the past 24 hours, creating a fresh divergence between token price and one fast-growing area of XRPL usage. XRPL Went From 1M to Nearly 4M Agent Payments in Weeks The acceleration becomes clearer with a longer comparison. In July, XRPL agentic payments had only recently crossed 1 million, when RippleX engineering head J. Ayo Akinyele discussed a potential path toward 10 million to 100 million transactions over the coming years. Now the tracked count is already approaching four times that initial milestone. The infrastructure is built around x402, an HTTP-native payment protocol that lets software agents pay for digital services without a conventional checkout process. On XRPL, agents can use either XRP or RLUSD to purchase API access, compute, data or other machine-readable services. Ripple formally expanded that strategy in June
