Ripple News: How x402 Is Reshaping XRP Ledger Settlement

In Ripple news today, the XRP Ledger recorded 1,434,517 autonomous AI agent transactions as of July 22, 2026, a 127% increase since the x402 protocol was embedded in the ledger on June 9. 129 merchants settled 4,463.24 XRP and 1,895.14 RLUSD through machine-to-machine payment channels, and the number of active addresses reached an all-time high of 8.45 million, according to a report from CoinMarketCap. Agentic economy on the XRP Ledger is on the rise. Over 1.4 million agentic transactions already settled through t54's x402 facilitator on the XRPL. Track everything on https://t.co/gwLZblD0wf https://t.co/3mrT6clHe8 pic.twitter.com/ahES65Af9Z — t54.ai (@t54ai) July 22, 2026 It marks the first sustained evidence that a purpose-built agentic payments layer on a public ledger can attract merchant adoption and generate measurable settlement volume within weeks of launch, independent of speculative trading activity. This XRPL data drop comes as XRP USD is down -0.5% over the past 24 hours, trading at $1.12. Holding support at $1.10 is crucial here for any possibility of a move toward $1.20. Daily trading volume is sitting at $924M. x402 Protocol and XRPL AI Hub: How the Infrastructure Sta...