Ripple, Freed from Regulatory Shackles, Will It Sweep Up Institutional Capital Backed by Stablecoins?

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As massive capital from institutional investors rapidly moves into legitimate regulatory frameworks, the XRP (Ripple) ecosystem's own stablecoin is showing remarkable growth, drawing strong attention from holders.

According to cryptocurrency media Watcher.Guru on April 28 (local time), the Ripple ecosystem is actively absorbing the advantages of the U.S. federal framework, leveraging the GENIUS Stablecoin Regulation Act enacted last July. In particular, its own stablecoin, RLUSD, recorded a market capitalization of $1.6 billion in approximately 16 months since its launch, climbing to 8th place worldwide. Furthermore, with XRP officially classified as a digital commodity under the joint framework of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) last March, regulatory uncertainty that had weighed on the payment infrastructure for years has also been lifted.

The implementation of the GENIUS Stablecoin Regulation Act is dramatically changing the market landscape. While Tether (USDT)'s market share, which previously dominated the market, plummeted from 71% to below 60%, USDC's share approached 25%, accounting for 46% of North American exchange usage. This suggests that capital is moving away from offshore assets that evade regulation and into legitimate frameworks. RLUSD, which is pegged one-to-one with the U.S. dollar under the strict supervision of the New York Department of Financial Services, is also emerging as a key destination for this compliant capital movement.

Actual institutional adoption has already moved beyond mere partnership announcements. BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, has adopted RLUSD in its BUIDL tokenized fund redemption system, and LMAX Group has adopted it as a key collateral asset for banks and brokers. Deutsche Bank has also integrated the coin into its system, clearly demonstrating that the Ripple ecosystem is becoming a core pillar of the actual global financial infrastructure.

This expansion of stablecoins is directly linked to an increase in XRP's value. Ripple's cross-border payment network uses the XRP Ledger as its core layer, so as institutional adoption of RLUSD increases, liquidity and transactions within the ledger will explode, and all network fees generated at that time will be paid in XRP.

Paul Atkins, Commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), also suggested that the authority would move away from enforcement-focused policies, stating that the commission no longer considers everything a security. The media emphasized that as the pieces of institutional payment systems are falling into place much faster than expected, investors should closely monitor the adoption rate of stablecoins within the ecosystem.

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