Ripple Joins x402 Foundation to Advance RLUSD AI Payments: Will XRP Price Benefit?

XRP price prediction is back in focus as it trades around $1.11, up about 3.6% over the past 24 hours. It remains pinned beneath a resistance zone that has rejected several intraday rallies this week.

So far, this has been more of a slow grind than a breakout. But Ripple’s reported alignment with the x402 Foundation to support RLUSD-powered AI payments is giving the long-term story another boost.

The x402 initiative positions RLUSD, Ripple’s dollar-backed stablecoin, as a settlement asset for autonomous AI agents. That narrative gained traction after the XRP Ledger processed more than one million agentic transactions using a fixed network fee of 0.0002 XRP per transaction. Meanwhile, the x402 Foundation includes major companies such as AWS, Google, Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, Circle, and Coinbase, showing the project has serious industry backing rather than just marketing buzz.

Ripple is proud to join the x402 Foundation as a Premier Member.

As AI agents begin to take on more of the transaction lifecycle, they'll need a way to pay that's as fast and reliable as the way they already exchange data. We've been helping build that future on the XRP Ledger… https://t.co/eSzTyXBQFm

At the same time, macro conditions have become a little friendlier. June’s US consumer inflation rate came in at 3.5% year over year, matching expectations after energy prices pulled the monthly index lower. That eased some concerns over tighter monetary policy and helped improve sentiment across equities and crypto.

Ripple’s payments narrative has been building for months, and RLUSD continues to expand its footprint. However, the price still needs to confirm the story. Until buyers force a clean breakout, XRP remains stuck in wait-and-see mode, with the fundamentals knocking while the chart keeps the door only slightly open.

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XRP trades around $1.11, after climbing roughly 3.5% over the past 24 hours. The session ranged between $1.06 and $1.12, while its market capitalization sits near $69 billion. Price is still coiling beneath $1.12, which often means the market is storing energy before making its next move.

Support remains around $1.05 to $1.06, where buyers have repeatedly shown up. Meanwhile, resistance stretches from $1.11 to $1.15, and sellers have defended that area more than once. Trading activity has also picked up, hinting at accumulation, although a convincing close above $1.12 would strengthen that case.

Three scenarios still stand out. The bullish path begins with a daily close above $1.15, opening the door toward the $1.20 to $1.30 area over time. The base case keeps XRP chopping between $1.07 and $1.13 as traders digest macro data. Sometimes the market just likes to make everyone wait.

The bearish case is equally simple. A decisive break below $1.05, backed by strong volume, would hand momentum back to sellers and could send XRP toward the mid $0.90s. While longer-term forecasts remain constructive, the near-term still belongs to the charts.

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XRP at $1.10 with a $68 billion market cap is a legitimate holding, but the asymmetric upside that early XRP adopters captured is structurally unavailable at this size. That math drives traders to scan earlier stages of the cycle.

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