Ripple doubles the ambitions of the Stablecoin Payments space with the acquisition of Railways, a global payments platform known for speed and enterprise-grade automation.
The deal, worth $200 million, was announced on August 7th and is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2025. Meanwhile, it is still subject to regulatory approval.
Ripple President Monica Long said the rail integration will place the company at the forefront of Global Finance’s adoption of Stablecoin. She said Stablecoins is rapidly becoming essential for modern payment systems, and Rail’s technology will help accelerate the transition from legacy rails to faster blockchain-based solutions.
What does this mean for RLUSD?
The acquisition highlights Ripple’s ambition to solidify its role as a leader in corporate digital asset infrastructure and expand its stablecoin offering, RLUSD, to dominant power in cross-border trading.
Rail’s platform is designed to streamline B2B payments using Stablecoins, and is expected to handle more than 10% of the global Stablecoin Business Payments market by 2025, an estimated $36 billion.
The combined platform allows businesses to initiate, route and resolve payments in multiple currencies and digital assets, including RLUSD and XRP, through a unified infrastructure.
This prediction makes the platform a strategic asset for Ripple as it races to offer a more agile, safer and scalable alternative than traditional systems.
He has long emphasized the importance of transactions, saying:
“Ripple has one of the world’s most widely used digital asset payment networks. This acquisition highlights its commitment to helping our global customer base move money whenever we need it.”
Apart from that, the acquisition is poised to remove major bottlenecks for enterprise clients by combining Ripple’s deep regulatory license footprint with liquidity tools and Rail’s real-time payments technology.
Additionally, Ripple is better at serving institutions seeking to move funds globally without the operational burden of holding crypto directly or dealing with fragmented bank partners.
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