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The rapid development and integration of artificial intelligence will become the main factor behind the mass adoption of the XRP Ledger (XRPL), said Phil Kwok, co-founder of the blockchain-focused educational platform EasyA, while expressing an extreme level of confidence in the technological future of the Ripple ecosystem.
"AI will accelerate the adoption of XRP Ledger. Ripple knows this. Brad Garlinghouse knows this. We know this. I firmly believe that AI agents are one of the main keys to unlocking this ecosystem and sending it to a completely new level," Kwok declared, summarizing his forecast as "bullish".
Kwok's main argument in favor of the inevitable growth in the network's popularity is based on the transformation of software into independent market participants.
How a "bullish" outlook is put into practice
Earlier this week, RippleX developer Ayo Akinyele said that autonomous AI agents are already becoming full-fledged economic actors that need their own financial infrastructure.
The technological foundation for this forecast is already being formed by the latest releases in the ecosystem. Ripple has become one of the key partners in Mastercard's Agent Pay for Machines initiative, while the RippleX team led by Akinyele has released the XRPL AI Starter Kit.
Thanks to these solutions, AI agents receive their own crypto wallets and the ability to pay each other fully autonomously, without human involvement, for server rentals, API access, or data transfers.
Akinyele stresses that rare and large transfers will be replaced by "nanopayments," and since XRPL was originally optimized for high speed and minimal fees, it is becoming an ideal native environment for machine-to-machine payments.
Against this backdrop, the volume of payments between robots is expected to exceed the total number of transactions between real people in the near future.
Phil Kwok's statement, together with Akinyele's engineering arguments, eloquently characterizes a new vector for XRP — AI agents are emerging as the main catalyst that could turn XRP Ledger into a fundamental payment super-infrastructure for robots, giving the blockchain potentially explosive adoption growth.
U.Today Editorial Team
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