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RLUSD Hits $2.5B, XRP Drops to $1.31 & ETF Inflows Collapse 75% | Oct 17
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Cross River Bank goes live with RLUSD in core infrastructure, but XRP price drops 2.4% to $1.31 as ETF inflows collapse 75% from September. The divergence between RLUSD adoption and XRP token demand is the structural question nobody has answered yet.
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Cross River Bank just embedded Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin directly into its core banking operating system, and that's the development worth leading with today. This isn't a pilot.
The second institutional story running alongside Cross River is the DriveWealth expansion. Ripple is integrating RLUSD infrastructure across DriveWealth's custody, settlement, and financing services, with reach into more than one hundred global brokerage partners.
RLUSD's market cap has now crossed two and a half billion dollars, with more than one billion of that issued directly on XRP Ledger. That ledger activity is real and growing.
On the institutional sentiment side, spot XRP ETF net inflows for the first fifteen days of October came in below thirteen million dollars. That's a seventy-five percent drop versus September's one hundred twenty-one million.
One counterpoint to the bearish pressure: XRP short liquidations hit one hundred eighty million dollars as price bounced off support after CPI data eased rate-cut concerns temporarily. And the Santiment social volume metric crossed a bullish threshold on October seventeenth, with the thirty-day moving average crossing above the two-hundred-day.
The real question coming out of today isn't whether Ripple's institutional story is progressing. It clearly is.
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