Ripple Secured a Seat at the Internet's New Payment Layer | XRP and RLUSD

The x402 Foundation is now operational under the Linux Foundation, bringing Ripple, Stellar, Solana, Coinbase, Circle, Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, Google, AWS, and other major players into the same internet-native payment standard.

But x402 does not select a winning blockchain or asset. This deep dive explains what the standard actually controls, what Ripple’s Premier membership provides, how XRP and RLUSD already work through a live XRP Ledger implementation, and why facilitators and payment defaults may ultimately determine where the money settles.

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Chapters:

0:00 One Standard and Three Competing Rails

0:42 The x402 Settlement Race

2:05 What x402 Actually Standardizes

4:22 April Was Intent and July Is Governance

6:07 Ripple’s Seat and Its Hard Limit

8:01 The XRP Ledger Was Already Live

10:14 One Million Payments Under the Microscope

12:09 Where XRP Actually Fits

14:26 Ripple Stellar and Solana Compete

16:30 The Facilitator May Decide

18:52 Access Is Not Victory

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