SWIFT Tests Blockchain as XRP Ledger Gains Focus

The post XRP AI-Agent Payments Jump 77% on the XRP Ledger appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. XRP News Autonomous AI agents on the XRP Ledger sharply increased their use of XRP over the past 24 hours, with payments settled between bots in the native token climbing 77%, according to on-chain data. Over the same window, turnover of Ripple’s dollar stablecoin, RLUSD, fell 32%, signaling that automated systems rotated their operational settlements away from the digital dollar and into XRP. The shift is playing out across the network’s growing machine-to-machine economy, where software agents pay one another for data and compute. On-chain metrics indicate the agents favored XRP during peak activity, treating RLUSD as a passive reserve rather than an active settlement rail. Much of that rotation traced back to a single protocol, ClawBank, whose 67 connected services processed 7,630 transactions in one day, on-chain data shows. The daily burst is striking: before it, the project had recorded

The post Tokenized stocks soar 279%, hit $3.4B record – 2 networks lead charge appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Momentum across tokenized stocks accelerated sharply in June as investors increasingly embraced blockchain rails for trading traditional stocks. The surge reflected more than speculative enthusiasm. Improving infrastructure, expanding token offerings, and demand for 24/7 trading continued attracting institutional and retail participants. Monthly trading volume reached a record $3.4 billion, rising 279% month over month and 1,400% year over year. SpaceX’s tokenized IPO and Solana’s [SOL] dominant market share largely drove that growth. Source: X As AMBCrypto previously reported, tokenized stocks are increasingly becoming a structural bridge between traditional finance and blockchain markets. That transition gathered further momentum as monthly transfer volume climbed 91.66% to $8.70 billion. Moreover, Distributed Value rose 31.59% to $1.94 billion, and holders increased 15

The post Over 15 Banks Race to Tokenize Finance, and It Could Affect Bitcoin appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. More than 15 of the world’s largest banks are building tokenized finance on private blockchains, and JPMorgan says that shift, not MicroStrategy, poses the bigger long-term threat to Bitcoin (BTC). The bank’s analysts, led by Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou, argue that if payments and assets move onto permissioned networks, public blockchains could lose activity, liquidity, and capital over time. Wall Street Is Building Tokenized Finance at Scale JPMorgan’s Kinexys platform has processed more than $3 trillion since inception and now clears over $7 billion a day. JPMorgan built it as Onyx in 2020 and renamed it Kinexys in 2024, as CEO Jamie Dimon kept criticizing Bitcoin. Much of this activity runs on shared permissioned networks. On the Canton Network, DTCC is tokenizing the U.S. Treasuries it custodies, with a 2026 target. HSBC has completed a tokenized deposit pilot there, and Go

The post XRP price rises as SWIFT taps Ripple-linked banks for blockchain payments appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. XRP price has climbed about 1.6% after SWIFT announced a blockchain payments pilot involving 17 banks, including several with Ripple ties. Summary XRP gained around 1.6% after SWIFT launched a blockchain payments pilot involving Ripple-linked banks. Spot XRP ETFs recorded $7.29 million in outflows, the largest daily withdrawal since March 2026. Technical indicators and derivatives data suggest sellers still hold the upper hand despite the rebound. According to SWIFT, the pilot will evaluate whether distributed ledger technology can support international payments across participating financial institutions. Among the banks involved are Standard Chartered and UBS, both of which have existing business ties with Ripple through crypto custody services or cross-border payment infrastructure built on the XRP Ledger. The announcement follows Ripple Treasury’s entry into the S

XRP price has climbed about 1.6% after SWIFT announced a blockchain payments pilot involving 17 banks, including several with Ripple ties. According to SWIFT, the pilot will evaluate whether distributed ledger technology can support international payments across participating financial institutions.…

The post XRP Price as SWIFT Taps Ripple-Affiliated Banks For Tokenized Cross-Border Payments appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. XRP price is up by 1.6% today, July 9, to trade at $1.09 at the time of writing. These gains come as SWIFT announces that it will be working with 17 banks, some of which are affiliated with Ripple, for a pilot phase for its blockchain-based ledger. SWIFT Partners With Banks For Tokenized Cross-Border Payments SWIFT has announced that it will be working with 17 banks to check whether its blockchain can be used to facilitate payments made between countries. Some of the banks named in this project, like Standard Chartered and UBS, use Ripple to custody crypto assets or to enable payments across countries using the XRP Ledger. This initiative comes after Ripple Treasury joined the SWIFT Certified Partner Program in April 2026. However, an analyst on X notes that Ripple’s partnership with SWIFT might not be bullish for the price of XRP because SWIFT will not use

The post Alfa-Bank Crypto Plans Gain Russia’s Approval. appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Alfa-Bank plans crypto custody services as Russia builds a regulated digital asset framework. The bank is testing crypto trading while developing blockchain investment products for users. Russian banks are preparing digital asset infrastructure ahead of upcoming regulations. Russia’s largest private bank, Alfa-Bank, is preparing to expand into regulated crypto services as Russia develops new digital asset rules, with custody and blockchain-based investment products among its planned offerings. Alfa-Bank Prepares Regulated Crypto Infrastructure Alfa-Bank is moving closer to offering cryptocurrency services after confirming plans to build digital asset infrastructure. The bank intends to become a regulated digital asset custodian while supporting clients and businesses under Russia’s upcoming crypto framework. The financial institution plans to create a digital depository and cryptocurrency conve

The post XRPL v3.2.0: Validator Majority, But Consensus Awaits appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. By mid-June, the XRP Ledger shipped a fresh server release. Validators moved fast. Most nodes in the wild did not. That mismatch is why people keep asking if the network is actually upgrading or just talking about it. The short version: xrpld 3.2.0 is out, a big chunk of the default validator set already runs it, yet the main amendment tied to that release has not cleared the bar it needs to activate. Different dials control code versions and governance votes. They do not always sync. If you are watching dashboards and seeing green checkmarks beside validators but a patchwork of node versions, you are not going crazy. That is exactly what is happening right now. Here is the state of play. The XRPL reference server 3.2.0 hit GitHub on 15 June 2026, giving operators a stable target to upgrade toward. You can see the tag and notes on the XRPL Foundation repo here: XRPLF/rippled GitHub (rele