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Ripple has expanded GSmart, its AI tools built into Ripple Treasury, with new features for forecasting, managing liquidity, assessing risk, reconciliation, and reporting. Ripple’s enterprise customers already use GSmart.

The XRP Ledger Foundation is working to add more traditional financial features to the XRP Ledger, according to CTO Denis Angell. At Rare Evo, Angell spoke with Ray Fuentes about the foundation’s work, including the upcoming Lending Protocol, Single Asset Vaults, agentic payments, and other infrastructure projects.

Blockstream has rejected a 10% bounty request from the group behind the Liquid Network breach, with 598 BTC from the incident still unreturned. Blockstream said withholding assets obtained without authorization in exchange for payment does not constitute legitimate security research, distinguishing responsible disclosure from taking funds without permission.

The XRP ecosystem has recorded the largest real-world asset (RWA) inflow of any blockchain network in 2026. Data from RWA.xyz, a leading provider of tokenized RWA data, shows that the XRP Ledger (XRPL) has received $3.6 billion in RWA inflows since the start of the year.

A Shiba Inu whale that remained dormant for more than three years has finally liquidated its entire SHIB holdings, realizing an estimated loss of $1.63 million in the process. The whale initially received 600 billion Shiba Inu tokens on July 16, 2023.