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