XRP Ledger Nears Major Upgrade as Validator Support Clears Key Mark

The post XRP AI-Agent Payments Jump 77% on the XRP Ledger appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. XRP News Autonomous AI agents on the XRP Ledger sharply increased their use of XRP over the past 24 hours, with payments settled between bots in the native token climbing 77%, according to on-chain data. Over the same window, turnover of Ripple’s dollar stablecoin, RLUSD, fell 32%, signaling that automated systems rotated their operational settlements away from the digital dollar and into XRP. The shift is playing out across the network’s growing machine-to-machine economy, where software agents pay one another for data and compute. On-chain metrics indicate the agents favored XRP during peak activity, treating RLUSD as a passive reserve rather than an active settlement rail. Much of that rotation traced back to a single protocol, ClawBank, whose 67 connected services processed 7,630 transactions in one day, on-chain data shows. The daily burst is striking: before it, the project had recorded

The post XRPL v3.2.0: Validator Majority, But Consensus Awaits appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. By mid-June, the XRP Ledger shipped a fresh server release. Validators moved fast. Most nodes in the wild did not. That mismatch is why people keep asking if the network is actually upgrading or just talking about it. The short version: xrpld 3.2.0 is out, a big chunk of the default validator set already runs it, yet the main amendment tied to that release has not cleared the bar it needs to activate. Different dials control code versions and governance votes. They do not always sync. If you are watching dashboards and seeing green checkmarks beside validators but a patchwork of node versions, you are not going crazy. That is exactly what is happening right now. Here is the state of play. The XRPL reference server 3.2.0 hit GitHub on 15 June 2026, giving operators a stable target to upgrade toward. You can see the tag and notes on the XRPL Foundation repo here: XRPLF/rippled GitHub (rele

The post SWIFT Tests Blockchain as XRP Ledger Gains Focus appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. SWIFT tests blockchain ledger with 17 banks as XRP Ledger’s 14-year settlement record returns to market focus. SWIFT has announced a blockchain-based ledger for tokenized cross-border payments. Seventeen banks are preparing to test tokenized deposits through the pilot. The ledger was built in nine months and is now ready for bank testing. It aims to support 24/7 payments through SWIFT’s secure messaging network. The launch has drawn attention from XRP Ledger supporters and wider crypto market analysts. XRPL has been settling transactions since 2012, giving it a longer public operating record. The debate now centers on pilots, production systems, and institutional payment rails. Banks linked to Ripple activity are also listed among SWIFT’s pilot participants. SWIFT Brings Tokenized Deposits Into Testing SWIFT said its new ledger will support tokenized cross-border payments between banks.  The

XRPL v3.2.0 lands with 31 of 35 UNL validators upgraded, yet nodes remain split and fixCleanup3_2_0 sits near 40% support. Consensus still needs >80% for 14 days.

SWIFT tests blockchain ledger with 17 banks as XRP Ledger’s 14-year settlement record returns to market focus. SWIFT has announced a blockchain-based ledger for tokenized cross-border payments. Seventeen banks are preparing to test tokenized deposits through the pilot. The ledger was built in nine months and is now ready for bank testing. It aims to […] The post SWIFT Tests Blockchain Ledger as XRP Ledger Claims 14 Years of Live Proof Now appeared first on Live Bitcoin News.

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The post Ripple News: XRP Ledger Launches AI Hub as Agentic Payments Cross the 1M Mark appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Key highlights: XRPL AI Hub would be a central platform for AI projects, tools, and payment services Agentic payments on the network have now crossed over 1 million Ripple’s t54.ai developed the hub with support from the firm’s developers In the latest Ripple news, t54.ai announced the launch of the XRP Ledger AI Hub. This is a new platform designed to bring together AI agents, payment services, developer tools, and blockchain applications in one place.  AI activity on XRP Ledger now has a home. Today, we’re launching the XRPL AI Hub, featuring our ecosystem launch partner @virtuals_io. A single destination for agents, AI projects, tools, and payment services building on the XRPL.https://t.co/gwLZblD0wf pic.twitter.com/QXewkkYlnR — t54.ai (@t54ai) July 8, 2026 The launch happened to coincide with the XRP Ledger crossing over 1 million processed agentic payments th

The post Less than 50% of XRPL nodes have switched to Ripple xrpld v3.2.0 appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Nearly a month after Ripple shipped xrpld v3.2.0, the renamed successor to the Ripple Core server software, XRPScan data show that only 357 of 828 total XRP Ledger nodes (43%) have made the switch, while 426 nodes (51%) remain on v3.1.3. This is not simply a slow rollout. It is a structural illustration of the two-tier governance dynamic that defines XRPL upgrade cycles: validator consensus runs well ahead of the broader node ecosystem, and the network’s functional readiness is determined by the former rather than the latter. We shipped together with the community (40+ devs and 9 new comers)- XRP Ledger 3.2.0, lots of great protocol improvements including the migration to xrpld. 34% are on 3.2.0 already! Please update your nodes at your earliest convenience. Migration guidehttps://t.co/aa3YWWHWZZ pic.twitter.com/sbf5y5mFkS — Vet (@Vet_X0) June 25, 2026 This XRP USD data drop c