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Mastercard Picks Ripple, AI Agents Pay Live & XRP Holds $1.10 | Jun 11
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Mastercard named Ripple a launch partner for AI agent payments the same week Ripple dropped its XRPL AI Starter Kit — live infrastructure, not a roadmap. XRP is holding $1.10 support but weekly losses hit 4.47% as the utility-price gap refuses to close.
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Mastercard just named Ripple as one of its launch partners for a new service that lets AI agents pay each other at machine speed. That's not a speculative roadmap item.
Ripple's XRPL AI Starter Kit is the mechanism. It enables AI agents to discover ledger resources, transact using XRP or RLUSD, and pay for services via the X402 protocol.
Mastercard's Agent Pay for Machines service is the institutional frame around it. Ripple joins Coinbase, Stripe, and the Solana Foundation as initial partners, covering cards, bank accounts, and stablecoins as settlement rails.
The price picture is more complicated. XRP defended the one dollar and ten cent support level on June eleventh and is trading near one dollar and twelve cents.
That gap between ledger development and token performance is worth holding onto. XRP Ledger total value locked has dropped to thirty-eight million dollars from a high of one hundred twenty million.
The short-term test is whether XRP can reclaim the one dollar and thirteen cent resistance level with genuine spot demand behind it. If volume stays soft, the TD Sequential signal becomes noise.
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