RLUSD Lands on Upbit — South Korea's Biggest Exchange Lists Ripple Stablecoin
Upbit, which holds a 70% share of the South Korean crypto market, listed RLUSD with KRW, BTC, and USDT trading pairs on July 28, 2026.
July 29, 2026Deep-dive editorial on XRPL, RWA tokenization, DeFi infrastructure, and digital asset regulatory frameworks — the shared knowledge base for the StackStats ecosystem.

Ripple invested in ZILO and Licuido to add transfer agency, issuance and collateral mobility capabilities to its XRPL capital-markets infrastructure.

Samsung said its Wallet will embrace stablecoins and described native smartphone support for digital-value transfers. Distribution is the real story.

XRPL node operators were told to upgrade to xrpld 3.2.1, a focused security release addressing validator-manifest propagation risks.

RippleX outlined five amendments for xrpld 3.3.0, including revised Batch and Permission Delegation proposals plus three new capabilities.

XRPL validator Vet warns the upcoming lending protocol launch will attract new scam tactics, as Korean police bust an $8.5M XRP staking fraud case.

Gerber ($592M AUM, Ohio) discloses 12,958 Franklin XRP ETF shares — joining a growing wave of institutional managers entering XRP ETF products in Q2 2026.

RLUSD is now on Upbit, Bithumb, Coinone, and Korbit. With native x402 support and Mastercard Verifiable Intent, RLUSD is emerging as agentic payment infrastructure.

Evernorth's SEC S-4 Amendment 5 discloses 50% target bonuses, multi-million RSU packages, and a $38.4M impairment on 473M XRP reserves before the XRPN Nasdaq listing.
Wintermute finds institutions drove 72% of OTC spot volume in H1 2026 — up from 61% — while tokenized RWA hit $31 billion and realized volatility fell to 45%.
South Korea confirmed a 22% combined tax on crypto gains above 2.5 million won ($1,740) starting January 1, 2027 — affecting the world's most XRP-concentrated e...
Santiment data shows XRP whale wallets (100K–100M XRP) added 2.8% over five weeks while smallest holders shed 5.2% — a historically bullish divergence as XRP bo...
Galaxy Digital, Arrington Capital, The Private Shares Fund, and GAM Alternatives Lux agreed to purchase approximately $130M of Ripple Labs private shares from L...
Upbit, which holds a 70% share of the South Korean crypto market, listed RLUSD with KRW, BTC, and USDT trading pairs on July 28, 2026.
July 29, 2026
Hugo Philion announced plans to extend FAssets to Bitcoin via FBTC after FXRP issuance exceeded 150 million tokens, targeting 5 billion XRP over six months.
July 29, 2026
XRPL daily payment volume climbed to roughly 508,000 transactions, recovering above the 500K mark in a range that held between 400K and 700K throughout the prior month.
July 29, 2026
XRPL daily active users reached 157,200 on July 21 — with participation staying between 120K and 160K throughout July, suggesting durable network engagement.
July 29, 2026
The U.S. Senate majority leader shelved the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act on July 27, citing limited floor bandwidth. XRP fell over 5%.

A single Hyperliquid wallet opened a $13.84M, 20x-leveraged short on XRP with liquidation at $1.68, against $8M in weekly ETF inflows.

The XRP community verified Ripple escrow at 32.445B XRP using XRPScan, clarifying conflicting social media figures with on-chain data.

XRP Ledger daily payment count surged above 508,000 on July 22, crossing the 500K threshold for the first time in several days.

An AI-generated music video explains the yen carry trade, XRP's rise, and the controlled succession of the petrodollar — set to original Soundgarden-style music.

White House says accept the win. Senate Democrats say enforcement is toothless. The bill may miss its August window.

Tokenized GameStop, Nvidia, and SpaceX shares are now clearing millions daily. RWA hits $70M in two weeks.

Cowmed put 10 cows on Brazil's B3 exchange — a world first. AI collars verify the collateral.

One analyst reads Bollinger Band contraction as a repeat of XRP's 791-day 2022-2024 accumulation cycle.

New API-driven platform lets institutions mint, redeem, bridge, and track RLUSD automatically — replacing manual workflows with webhook-enabled infrastructure.

RLUSD holder count and active addresses are climbing fast — but monthly transfer volume fell roughly 25% in July. Ripple's Notabene investment targets that gap.

Commissioner Peirce's July 22 statement signals that vault products with manager discretion and structured onchain lending could face federal securities law scrutiny.

Coinbase Business users can now accept USDC from AI agents via x402 — the merchant checkout layer for the agentic economy, rolling out July 2026.

The world's largest custody bank completed an after-hours Treasury trade using Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin reserves.
Jul 23, 2026
The sovereign wealth-backed asset manager tokenized a private markets strategy on Base, Solana, and Sui.
Jul 23, 2026
A near-final version of the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act nears a Senate vote before summer recess.
Jul 23, 2026
Britain's DIGIT pilot targets early 2027 via HSBC and LSE Group, but experts say GBP stablecoins are the missing piece.
Jul 23, 2026
Ripple CTO Emeritus David Schwartz revealed he sold XRP at $0.10 and Ethereum at $1 due to risk aversion and a standing

T. Rowe Price, with $7 trillion in AUM, launched TKNZ — its first actively managed crypto ETF — with XRP holding 9.37% o

The FixCleanup3_2_0 amendment achieved 85.71% validator consensus and entered its 2-week activation countdown. It activa

Ripple has burned over 70 million RLUSD since July 6, 2026 through repeated 10M treasury burns. Circulating supply has f

Ripple burned 10 million RLUSD on July 14 2026. The treasury burn reduces circulating supply when users redeem for USD —

T. Rowe Price ($7 trillion AUM) launched TKNZ on July 16, 2026 — the first actively managed multi-token crypto ETF. XRP

Travala.com now accepts XRP for bookings at over 2.2 million hotels worldwide. XRP joins BTC, ETH and 100+ other cryptos

The XRP Ledger Foundation confirmed the network has crossed 8 million activated accounts, with approximately 2,500 new a

XRP Ledger validators are preparing to vote on a landmark protocol upgrade introducing batch transactions, confidential

Q2 2026 SEC 13F filings reveal Colorado-based Gallacher Capital Management joined Vista Finance and CPR Investments in X

The XRP Ledger's latest software upgrade is leading among validators by stake weight, but the bundled security amendment

Ripple joined the Linux Foundation's x402 Foundation as a premier member alongside AWS, Google, Mastercard, and Stripe,

Ripple Payments Europe SA has been officially listed on ESMA's MiCA crypto asset service provider register, enabling reg

Ripple's University Digital Asset Xcelerator (UDAX) debuted in Brazil through a partnership with FGV and UC Berkeley, gr

Three registered investment advisers filed 13F disclosures revealing new XRP ETF positions. Gallacher Capital, Vista Fin

XRP social sentiment has turned markedly negative while ETF custody figures remain unchanged at 1.587 billion XRP. The g

No, DTCC is not listing XRP as a settlement asset. Here's what's actually confirmed: Ripple Prime holds broker-dealer co

MoneyGram has joined the Stellar network as a Tier 1 validator, five years after first partnering with the Stellar Devel

The XRP Ledger has crossed 8 million activated accounts as of July 16, 2026, marking a new milestone for the settlement

Ripple has joined the Linux Foundation's X402 Foundation alongside Stellar and Solana, establishing open standards for A

On-chain data shows 70 million XRP flowing into whale wallets holding over $1 million in XRP as of July 16, 2026. The ac

Stellar's XLM posted gains while six other digital rail assets declined on July 16, 2026. The divergence snapshot from C

Ripple has burned 10 million RLUSD in a series of treasury operations through July 2026, reducing circulating supply fro

CoinDesk reports XRP social media sentiment turned most bullish in five weeks even as price declined in mid-July 2026. S

The x402 Foundation has launched under the Linux Foundation umbrella with Ripple, Stellar, and Solana as founding member

Ondo Global Markets rebrands to Ondo Stocks as tokenized equity holdings cross the $1 billion mark, signaling a structur

DTCC began limited production trades of tokenized Russell 1000 stocks, ETFs, and US Treasuries on July 15, 2026 — markin

The CLARITY Act reaches a pivotal July 17 Senate hearing — here's what the legislation says, why the vote math is tight,

XRP ETF products now hold 1.58 billion XRP totaling $2.9 billion AUM — 1.58% of total circulating supply. Bitwise is the

XRP has completed a 4-hour golden cross chart signal while XRPL network activity hit its second-lowest day of 2026. Trad