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Institutions Buy the Dip, RLUSD Surge & Jeonbuk Deal | Aug 18
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XRP ETP inflows hit $1.9B as institutions accumulate at $1 while retail retreats — but RLUSD's explosive growth raises a pointed question about XRP's role as a bridge asset. Plus: Ripple's third Korean bank deal, XRPL RWA hits $4.46B, and the CLARITY Act's slim Senate odds.
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Cumulative XRP ETP inflows just crossed one point nine billion dollars, and that happened while the token itself fell nearly twenty percent in the same quarter. That's the signal worth isolating today.
The ecosystem data underneath that ETP story is striking on its own terms. XRPL-native stablecoin supply hit eight hundred twenty-five million dollars in Q2, up one hundred ninety-five percent.
Ripple announced on August eighteenth that Jeonbuk Bank will deploy Ripple Payments for cross-border remittances. That makes Jeonbuk the third Korean partnership Ripple has secured in twenty twenty-six, following Kyobo Life and Kbank.
Real-world assets on the XRP Ledger reached four point four six billion dollars in Q2, up over one hundred percent, making XRPL the fourth-largest RWA network globally. Aviva Investors and Kyobo Life Insurance are among the institutional names expanding activity there.
Today, executives from Coinbase, a16z, Ripple, and Chainlink met at the White House to push the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act toward a Senate cloture vote scheduled to ripen September fifteenth. The bill would place most spot crypto trading under CFTC jurisdiction and securities activity under the SEC.
The watchpoints from here are specific. First, does Ripple disclose the settlement mechanism for Jeonbuk before the corridor launches?
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