- The turnover on the XRP Ledger achieved eight million transactions per week. This increased by 430% in less than two years.
- The introduction of the XRPL EVM-SIDECHAIN combines XRP with Ethereum-compatible smart contracts.
The XRP Ledger (XRPL) experiences a massive wave of acceptance because the payment volume has increased drastically via the network. Loud Dune Dune Analytics The weekly payment transactions have increased by more than 430 % since 2022 and now reach more than 8 million. She Now make up almost two thirds of the entire XRP Ledger activity.
The increase in acceptance is primarily due to the basic network principles of XRPL: fast finality, low transaction fees and inherent properties that are specially tailored to RWA tokenization.
Since there is a growing demand for spending, compliance-friendly solutions, XRPL was accepted by corporate customers. The RLUSD stable from Ripple and external currencies such as USDC, EURøP, USDB and XSGD also contributed to increasing cross-border payment volume.
XRPL extends to Defi and Smart Contracts
While XRPL has been known for payments so far, his defi segment is gradually being used more. Loud Defill it has a TVL of almost $ 60 million on the defi protocols from XRP Ledger.
Although this number is modest compared to the Ethereum network, it shows the further expansion of XRPL in the direction of decentralized offers.
Another one worth mentioning feature By XRPL is the in -house Dex, which is not controlled as a backbone via smart contracts, but via a classic ledger (main register). ES forms the basis for functions such as auto-bridging and liquidity pools and ensures that the Dex runs with around 300 simultaneous dealers a day. For comparison.
The XRP Ledger pioneered most of the properties we now take as granted in the space. From deflationary tokenomics and burning, to DeFi features and DEXs, tokenization, payments, and more. This is the OG that started DeFi and most in the industry don’t know about it. pic.twitter.com/yy0LIXEy2y
— Panos
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(@panosmek) June 26, 2025
Sidechain integration opens up developer potential
Ripple has to improve his smart contract skills the XRPL EVM Sidechain unlocked. She is now live in the Mainnet. The Sidechain was developed in collaboration with Peersyst and is connected via the Axelar Bridge. It combines the support of the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) with the XRP Ledger.
1/ The XRPL EVM Sidechain is live on mainnet: https://t.co/CJ61aqZvhp
After years of building with @Peersyst and the XRPL community, devs can now build, port, and deploy cross-chain and EVM-only dApps using XRP as gas, with a direct bridge to the XRPL.
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— RippleX (@RippleXDev) June 30, 2025
Developers can now create and execute Ethereum-Compatible Dapps, use XRP as gas and benefit from the 6 million Wallet owners from XRPL.
The XRPL EVM Sidechain is a decisive factor for the ecosystem and offers developers an inexpensive high -speed environment with access to tools such as solidity, metamask and hardhat. The combination is a guarantee of complete interoperability, and XRP is a native token on the Sidechain.
With regard to the performance, XRPL EVM Sidechain offers shorter block times and lower costs than the Ethereum Mainset. Axelar plays a crucial role as an interoperability layer and enables seamless asset bridging. Future compatibility with Wormhole will improve multicia connectivity on XRPL.
The developer community is already preparing for this. Projects such as band Protocol, Grove and Blockscout have invested resources and consider future defi platforms such as Strobe, Securd and Vertex to expand the XRP Ledger ecosystem to expand credit and commercial options.
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