The XRP Ledger has reached another major adoption milestone, surpassing 8 million activated accounts.
The achievement was announced by the XRP Ledger Foundation on Monday.
"The XRP Ledger crossed 8,000,000 activated accounts," the Foundation wrote on X.
The settlement layer powers the continuous growth of tokenization, payments, and AI agents across XRP DeFi.
Why the 8 million milestone matters
Every activated XRP Ledger account must permanently lock up a minimum amount of XRP as a base reserve before it can transact. This sets it apart from other blockchain networks.
This anti-spam mechanism prevents the network from being flooded with empty or malicious accounts while ensuring each account has a small economic stake in the ecosystem.
The current base reserve is 1 XRP, meaning that at least 8 million XRP are now locked across activated accounts alone. While those tokens remain owned by account holders, they cannot be freely spent unless the account is deleted, effectively removing a portion of XRP from active circulation.
Thousands of new accounts every day
Community member Krippenreiter noted that adoption has remained remarkably consistent. "Every single day around ~2500 new XRPL accounts get created."
He emphasized that every one of those accounts contributes to the network's base reserve.
"They all need at least 1 XRP to be locked away and marked as 'unspendable' for the base reserve to activate and maintain an active account on the XRP Ledger."
According to Krippenreiter, this applies equally to individual users and the next generation of autonomous software.
"That's true for the everyday person as well as for an AI agent transacting on the XRPL," he said.
Adoption broadens beyond payments
The latest milestone comes as the XRP Ledger expands well beyond its traditional focus on cross-border payments.
Ripple and independent developers have increasingly positioned XRPL as infrastructure for tokenized real-world assets (RWAs), decentralized finance (DeFi), stablecoins and AI-powered agentic payments.
This week, Ripple joined the Linux Foundation's x402 Foundation. The initiative aims to establish an open standard for machine-to-machine payments over the internet.
Meanwhile, Ripple's regulated RLUSD stablecoin continues to gain adoption across enterprise finance.
Dan Burgin
U.Today Editorial Team
