AI agents are already sending payments on the XRP Ledger (XRPL), with 14.6 million agent payments as of Oct. 27 worth just $33,506 in total. The Heurist Inference Router accounted for 10.4 million of them (71%), billed in Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin. RippleX engineering lead J. Ayo Akinyele targets 100 million agent payments with no timeframe and claims about 25% of ledger transactions are made by agents, a figure the article says cannot be verified. The article notes XRPL's market share is small compared with other chains (195.2 million payments worth $42.2 million), that agent payments need XRP only for negligible fees, and that the 146 XRP burned (about $193) is trivial against an $83.3 billion market cap, so XRP's price would need agent activity that requires holding or burning XRP itself to move higher.
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| Market | Crypto |
|---|---|
| Exchange | Binance |
| Sector | Layer 1 |
| Market cap | $82.0B |
| Close on 10/30/2026 | 1.25670 |
| Change that session | +1.54% |
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