Ripple Announces 'Big Plans' for XRP Ledger XRP Ledger (@XRP) $XRP is preparing for major performance improvements in 2027, Ripple engineering director Vijay Khanna (@vjkhannaripple) says. "We have big plans for performance improvements lined up for 2027," Khanna noted. The plans come amid criticism of the network's transaction speed. Ripple is also working to reduce the infrastructure demands placed on validators. The latest xrpld 3.3.0 release cut node RAM usage by 13% to 23%. Recent software updates have already reduced validator memory usage. The roadmap includes lending pools, native smart contract capabilities, repo markets and options trading. The changes aim to support larger financial transactions without overwhelming the base network.

Ripple's RLUSD is taking off on XRP Ledger. According to Token Relations, the transfer volume of @Ripple's $RLUSD on the @XRP Ledger has surged by +900% in 2026. From just $2.2B in January, the total for October climbed to a staggering $20.1B. Out of $XRP Ledger's ~$976M in stablecoins, RLUSD makes up a staggering 91% of the figure.

Ripple is beating much of the larger competition... @Ripple topped all other stablecoin issuers in the last 24 hours, issuing $34.7 million in net-new tokenized dollars in RLUSD. This made it outperform @Tether ($24.2 million) and @m0 ($22.6 million), @SoFi ($4.6 million), @JupiterExchange ($3.0 million), and @arcus_xyz ($2.7 million). Institutions appear steadily interested in $RLUSD. Daily inflows may shift rapidly, however, so the true measure is how sustainable this performance will be. As of today, RLUSD is beating much larger competition.

Ripple's stablecoin grew +$150M in the space of five minutes. Between 9:00am and 9:05am UTC on November 2, the market cap of @Ripple's $RLUSD stablecoin jumped from a market cap of $2.411B to as much as $2.561B. The sudden jump is the result of Ripple's own issuance and minting process, which sees large sums of RLUSD burned or minted in one hit. The asset is still below its all-time high of around $2.632B. Data: CoinMarketCap.

Ripple's RLUSD is gaining ground fast in the digital dollar race @Ripple's $RLUSD stablecoin has seen $128.6 million in inflows in the last 24 hours, leading the pack in global stablecoin expansion. This massive one-day increase helps the circulating supply of the stablecoin to cross the mark of $2.5 billion. The influx is linked to institutional treasury routing and growing liquidity integrations at key exchanges like @Coinbase and @RobinhoodCrypto.