$XRP MONEY WATCH $XRP is back around $1.51 today and the U.S. spot ETFs just finished another green week. That makes 10 straight weeks of net inflows. About $9.56 million came in last week, cumulative net inflows are around $1.71 billion, and the funds are sitting around $1.51 billion in assets. Thursday had an outflow, but the week still finished positive. Europe caught my attention today. The Eurosystem just turned on Pontes, which lets tokenized assets settle against euro central bank money. Deutsche Bank, Santander, Société Générale, the EIB, KfW and others are already involved. This isn’t $XRP or RLUSD settlement, but Europe is actually putting tokenized settlement infrastructure into use instead of just talking about it. Ripple already has its Luxembourg EMI and MiCA CASP setup across the EEA. That gives the company regulated access for payments and crypto services across Europe. RLUSD still has another regulatory step before that access opens up for the token itself. Ripple also had another move today in South Africa. Absa brought digital-asset custody live using Ripple’s technology, and $XRP is one of the assets covered. A bank just put Ripple custody technology into production with $XRP in scope. RLUSD is still around $2.38 billion, with about $1.04 billion on XRPL and about $1.33 billion on Ethereum. More than a billion dollars of RLUSD is sitting on XRPL now. That still isn’t the same thing as $XRP demand, but I’m watching where those dollars keep moving as Ripple builds more around them. Batch V1.1 is getting close too. It’s inside the activation window now, and if validator support holds it could activate around September 29. That would let up to eight transactions settle together or all fail together. Asset managers can use that kind of setup for delivery versus payment. It isn’t live yet, so I’m leaving it right there until it is. The Fed is still at 3.75% to 4.00% after last week’s hike and the 10-year is back just under 5%. CLARITY also failed its Senate cloture vote 49–50 and needed 60. The $XRP ETFs are still trading and the access already built around them is still there. The bigger U.S. market-structure law still hasn’t made it through. There’s a lot happening outside the $XRP chart right now. The ETFs just finished another green week, Europe turned on a real tokenized settlement system, Ripple custody went live inside a South African bank, RLUSD still has more than $1 billion sitting on XRPL, and Batch could be right around the corner. That’s $XRP MONEY WATCH.