Ripple Is Closing Bank Deals Every Week: Why XRP Holders Aren’t Seeing the Benefit
View original at finance.yahoo.comRipple Is Closing Bank Deals Every Week: Why XRP Holders Aren’t Seeing the Benefit Quick Read Ripple has closed ten major deals in 2026 so far, with Deutsche Bank ($1.7T in total assets), Société Générale ($1.8T AUM), JPMorgan, and Mastercard’s $9 trillion payment network, among them, yet XRP holders aren’t benefiting…
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On-Demand Liquidity is the only Ripple product that actually uses XRP as a settlement asset, converting one currency into XRP, moving it across the XRP Ledger in seconds, and converting it into the destination currency on arrival.
60% confidenceNone of the ten Ripple deals in 2026 created direct XRP demand.
60% confidenceA cross-border tokenized Treasury transaction on XRPL settled in under five seconds, but XRP's role was only to pay the network fee—a fraction of a cent.
60% confidenceThree of Ripple's 2026 deals (Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, Mastercard) did not touch the XRP Ledger at all.
60% confidenceSeven of Ripple's 2026 deals used XRPL but settled in RLUSD, with XRP used only to pay tiny network fees averaging $0.0002 per transaction.
60% confidenceOnly 40% of RippleNet's over 300 global partners use On-Demand Liquidity, the only Ripple product that uses XRP as a settlement asset.
60% confidenceAcross all ten Ripple deals in 2026, Ripple's infrastructure benefited greatly while XRP did not benefit from any of them.
60% confidenceRipple has closed ten major partnerships in 2026 so far, including Deutsche Bank, Société Générale, JPMorgan, Mastercard, and Convera.
60% confidenceXRP is down approximately 41% since January 2026, with almost every Ripple deal announcement followed by a price decline.
60% confidenceConvera's $190 billion payment network runs on Ripple's stablecoin sandwich model: fiat in, RLUSD in the middle, and fiat out.
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