XRP had its best month since the SEC settlement and the network is about to change underneath it

XRP rallied 37% in August on a wave of record ETF inflows. The market is pricing momentum. It is not pricing the Sept. 11 mainnet upgrade that hardens Vaults, AMMs, and the Lending Protocol for institutional use. Summary XRP gained 37% in August 2026, its strongest month of the year and the third best August in the token’s history, trailing only 2021 and 2017 Spot XRP ETFs pulled in $110.49 million during the week ending Aug. 28, a record weekly haul that pushed cumulative net inflows past $1.66 billion RLUSD, Ripple’s regulated stablecoin, crossed $1 billion in circulating supply on the XRP Ledger alone, accounting for 82% of all XRPL stablecoin activity The fixCleanup3_3_0 amendment, carrying stability patches for Single Asset Vaults, the Lending Protocol, and Automated Market Makers, reached 82.86% validator consensus and could activate on mainnet as early as Sept. 11 Tokenized real world assets on the ledger grew to $4.34 billion, a nearly 60x increase in under two years, while the XRPL EVM sidechain holds just $25,741 in TVL The anatomy of a 37% month August began badly. XRP fell 6.8% in the first two weeks, touching a yearly low of $0.9874 on Aug. 15. The selloff was part of ...