The RLUSD market cap has surpassed $2 billion, marking another major milestone for Ripple’s dollar-backed stablecoin less than two years after its December 2024 launch. The growth is notable because RLUSD is not positioned primarily as a retail trading stablecoin. Ripple is increasingly building it into a broader institutional infrastructure stack spanning payments, tokenization, collateral management, custody and cross-border liquidity.

A critical XRP Ledger vulnerability that had remained in the payment engine for roughly a decade could theoretically have allowed an attacker to create spendable XRP beyond the ledger’s intended supply rules. XRPL disclosed the issue on October 9, 2026, after it was privately reported through the XRPL Bug Bounty Program on September 22. The vulnerability affected xrpld 3.4.0 and earlier versions and was fixed in xrpld 3.4.1, released on September 25

Payward, the parent company of Kraken, is pursuing a regulated pathway for bringing onchain perpetual futures to U.S. customers through Hyperliquid's HIP-3* infrastructure. The company announced its plan on September 16, 2026, while Hyperliquid's October 26 update drew renewed attention to the proposed permissioned market architecture. Under the arrangement, Bitnomial would operate the exchange and clearing functions, NinjaTrader Clearing would maintain customer accounts, and Hyperliquid would supply the blockchain-based order book used to execute and record transactions