XRP News: AI Payments Integration With Stripe Driving Ripple Toward $1.50

In XRP news, the asset is moving faster than it has since August. The token passed $1.38 on CoinGecko after a +2% gain over the past week.

Ripple linked XRP to Stripe’s payment tools on September 17, and the coin still trades -54% below its 2021 peak.However, Ripple is down -3% over the past 24 hours after losing the key $1.40 support level, but trading volume has picked up to $2.8Bn, indicating strong investor demand for the token.News of Ripple connecting its XRPL to the Machine Payments Protocol, which lets AI agents pay for data and services with XRP and RLUSD, has generated fresh buzz around the project.

XRP News: What Is Driving the Ripple Price Higher This Week?Ripple shipped version 1.1 of its XRPL Starter Kit on September 17 (CoinCodex). The update connects XRP to the Machine Payments Protocol built by Stripe and Tempo.

Starter Kit v1.1 adds two pieces of infrastructure: MPP support and the Open Wallet Standard, which lets software manage wallets across multiple blockchains through one interface.