Overview
- Ripple announced it has become a Premier Member of the x402 Foundation and will take part in the foundation's technical development and governance work.
- The company says the XRP Ledger will support x402 settlements using XRP and the RLUSD stablecoin, enabling AI agents to complete on‑chain payments for automated workflows.
- Ripple-backed developer tools released in June, including the XRPL AI Starter Kit and the XRPL AI Hub, are already available to help developers build agentic payment integrations.
- The XRPL Foundation reported more than one million agent-driven x402 transactions on the ledger, signaling active developer testing rather than a broad commercial rollout.
- x402 began as Coinbase's HTTP‑402 payment design and was moved into an open‑governance x402 Foundation hosted by the Linux Foundation, but wider use will depend on additional protocol work, ledger upgrades, and fixes for authorization and replay‑attack risks.