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Key Insights: XRPL is becoming TradFi-friendly rails for tokenized funds and stablecoins but the high adoption rate is yet to drive XRP price action. XRPL adoption doesn’t guarantee XRP demand because stablecoins can do most settlement. Fees and reserves create a small baseline but don’t scale with dollar value moved. XRP wins if it becomes the liquidity bridge that market makers must hold. ETFs/treasuries can tighten supply fastest by locking up XRP off-ledger. XRP price action has yet to reflect the growing adoption of the XRP Ledger, which is increasingly resembling financial plumbing that traditional institutions can plug into without rebuilding their entire systems. Tokenized funds can live on the ledger, and stablecoins can move across it quickly and with finality. At the same time, the network keeps adding features for regulated players who want on-chain settlement, but not an open door to every unknown counterparty. That progress creates a positive environment for XRP holders. However, a busy XRPL has not automatically translated into booming demand for XRP. XRPL Wins Adoption, XRP Price Fails to Capture the Upside In 2026, the ledger can thrive as infrastructure while XRP only collects a thin slice of utility, unless the market starts treating XRP as the main liquidity unit. The first link between usage and XRP is simple: fees. Every transaction incurs fees in XRP, and the protocol burns those fees rather than paying them out to validators. That design helps defend the network from spam, which is smart. Still, it does not create the kind of visible cash flow that investors can easily price like a business. The burn math also stays small at normal fee levels. A million transactions at the base fee burns only about 10 XRP. And if fees ever rise enough to matter, the network is probably congested,…

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Filed under: News - @ March 3, 2026 5:21 pm