Ripple Joins Mastercard's AI Payments Initiative with XRPL and RLUSD
Summary
Mastercard has partnered with over 30 organizations, including Ripple, to support autonomous AI-driven transactions. Ripple will contribute its XRPL blockchain and RLUSD stablecoin to enable controlled, permissioned, and regulated settlement for machine-driven commerce. RippleX's Markus Infanger emphasized that institutional controls must move at the speed of autonomous agents to keep pace with AI-driven transactions.
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Ripple will anchor the initiative with XRPL and RLUSD to support AI-driven payments.
XRPL can be used by enterprises to enforce controls while AI agents transact continuously.
RLUSD is positioned to support regulated settlement as machine-driven commerce expands across business systems.
Institutions can only match autonomous transaction speed if controls move with the agents.
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