XRP Up 77%, RLUSD Down 32%: Why XRPL AI Agents Are Dropping Ripple’s Stablecoin for Native Token

An abnormal capital rotation has been recorded inside the $XRP Ledger, with the volume of payments between autonomous AI agents in $XRP rising by 77%, while the turnover of Ripple USD ($RLUSD), the dollar stablecoin, declined by 32%, according to the new hub from t.54.

The movement of funds coincided with anomalous activity from the financial protocol ClawBank, whose 67 connected services processed 7,630 transactions over the past 24 hours. Before this daily spike, the project had accumulated only 8,469 operations over its entire lifetime, meaning the system generated around 90% of its historical activity in just one day, choosing the network’s native token for settlements in most cases.

Why millions of AI transactions are forcing a pivot back to $XRP

For those unfamiliar with the technical side, the integrated x402 protocol allows AI agents to make automated payments, choosing between $XRP and $RLUSD when paying for data or renting computing power.

Current statistics show that during periods of high network activity, AI agents give priority to the native $XRP token because of its fixed low fees and fast transaction processing.

The 32% decline in $RLUSD turnover indicates that the software temporarily set aside the digital dollar as a passive protective asset and moved its main operational settlements into $XRP.

At the moment, the total AI economy of $XRP Ledger has already exceeded the one-million-transaction mark, while the main volume of operations is divided between two major players.

The leader of the ecosystem remains the DePIN network Heurist Mesh, with 405,492 transactions, providing GPU capacity for neural networks, while second place is held by the operating system LucyOS, with 359,839 transactions, working in a high-frequency exchange mode.

The shift toward $XRP clearly confirms that under peak daily loads and the acceleration of the AI economy, algorithms prioritize the speed and low fees of the native coin.