RLUSD Just Overtook Ethereum on the XRP Ledger: Can It Help XRP this Time?

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Skip to navigationSkip to main contentSkip to right columnSam DaoduThu, June 25, 2026 at 3:24 PM GMT+2 7 min readQuick ReadThe XRP Ledger now holds more RLUSD than Ethereum for the first time, at about $801 million versus $795 million, after 18 months where most of the supply sat on ETH.The flip is largely engineered rather than driven by outside demand. Of the RLUSD Ripple burned over the past month, about three-quarters came off Ethereum, and draining that side is what tipped the balance toward Ripple's own chain.On the XRP Ledger, XRP is the bridge the network routes trades through, so RLUSD growing there can feed XRP demand the way it never could on Ethereum. But that only pays off if sustained external volume shows up, which it hasn't yet.Don't wait: the analyst who called NVIDIA in 2010 just revealed his top 10 AI stocks. See the full list FREE now.When Ripple launched its own dollar stablecoin in late 2024, the whole point was to give the XRP Ledger a regulated dollar to run on. Then it spent the next year and a half watching most of that stablecoin live somewhere else entirely—on Ethereum, the rival chain Ripple has spent a decade trying to beat.But that has finally changed. For the first time, more RLUSD now lives on the XRP Ledger than on Ethereum, and it happened while the XRP (CRYPTO:XRP) price keeps sliding back toward $1. So, does the flip finally do something for XRP, or is it one more milestone the token doesn't feel?Ruslan Ivantsov / Shutterstock.comColor4260 / Shutterstock.comThe XRP Ledger now holds about $801 million of RLUSD against roughly $795 million on Ethereum, marking the first time Ripple's own chain has been the bigger home for its stablecoin. For a year and a half Ethereum held the bigger share, and critics had an easy line because of it. They argued that a company selling the XRP Ledger as enterprise-ready couldn't even keep its own stablecoin at home.Don't wait: the analyst who called NVIDIA in 2010 just revealed his top 10 AI stocks. See the full list FREE now.What's more, the shift has been building for months. XRPL's share of RLUSD has climbed from around 9% last October to just past half now. But a lot of the flip is Ripple deliberately moving the stablecoin to its own chain, not outside users flooding in, and most of the celebration skips that. Over the past month, the company burned roughly $539 million of RLUSD across both chains, and about three-quarters of that came off Ethereum.RLUSD's total supply has actually slipped about 11% over the past month, down from a June peak near $1.8 billion. That means the XRP Ledger's share rose mainly because Ripple shrank the Ethereum component, not because new dollars arrived. Terms and Privacy PolicyEU DSA contactPrivacy & Cookie SettingsMore Info