Overview
- Both tokens were included in an exchange-traded fund for the first time, sharpening comparisons of their investment cases.
- XRP is presented as a settlement-focused asset on the XRP Ledger with roughly three- to five-second finality and minimal fees, marketed to financial firms.
- Yahoo Finance reports at least a dozen banks and financial institutions use XRP-related technology for faster, cheaper cross-border payments.
- Ripple’s institutional expansion includes a reported roughly $1.2 billion agreement to buy prime broker Hidden Road and the launch of the Ripple USD stablecoin.
- The XRPL hosts more than $212 million in tokenized real-world assets, while analysts have issued ambitious XRP targets, and Dogecoin faces an 82% slide from its $0.74 peak and a crowded meme-coin field.