XRP Breaks Above Bollinger Bands as AI Agents Drive Native Token Demand

XRP has broken above the middle line of its Bollinger Bands, shifting into a medium-term bullish zone after a prolonged spring decline. This price rebound coincided with a rise in activity from the x402 facilitator on the XRP Ledger (XRPL), where the volume of settlements in native tokens increased by 111% over the past 30 days.

The growth led to the expansion of the x402 commercial network to 120 participants, driven by the integration of new merchants. This points to the gradual launch of a real economy inside the ecosystem.

The automated commerce sector is particularly important here, as the x402 protocol has already processed 979,134 transactions within agent-to-agent commerce. The scaling of this segment directly affects the blockchain's utility value and forms an independent base of AI users.

XRP targets $1.30 as AI agents pivot from Ripple's USD stablecoin (RLUSD). A successful breakout of this resistance zone would open the way for the AI-driven XRP toward the $1.30 mark, while the 30-day RLUSD settlement volume simultaneously fell by 31%, proving that automated entities are currently prioritizing the native token over stablecoins for direct machine-to-machine settlements.