XRPL Commons Hosts 36-Hour NYC Hackathon to Build On-Chain Lending and AI Payments on XRPL
More than 400 builders have signed up to spend 36 hours on October 24 and 25 writing lending apps, yield vaults and AI payment agents for the XRP Ledger in New York, at a moment when tokenized real-world assets have reached about $46 billion on public blockchains and only a small fraction of them earn anything in DeFi. XRPL Commons, the Paris-based nonprofit running the AI and Fintech XRPL Hackathon, has lined up Ripple, the XRPL Foundation, Mastercard, Ledger, AWS and QuickNode behind the event. It has timed the weekend so that winning teams arrive with working products just before Ripple's Swell 2026 conference opens in Manhattan.
A Tokenization Market Heading Toward Trillions
DefiLlama counted about $14.1 billion of tokenized real-world assets on public chains on January 1 and $23.6 billion by March 11. Token Terminalput the total near $46.2 billion in late September,...
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