XRP Ledger Overtakes Ethereum as Leader in Tokenizing Commodities
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XRP Ledger is described as overtaking Ethereum in tokenized commodity growth, with $2.2 billion in year-to-date inflows. Another account says XRPL added $2.2 billion in tokenized commodity market-cap growth in 2026, and that XRP Ledger and Ethereum together made up about 90% of the commodity growth across the chains shown.
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What it means
Users and market participants who track tokenized commodities would notice that XRP Ledger is now described as the lead network for commodity tokenization growth, with $2.2 billion in year-to-date inflows. That changes which chain sits at the top of the growth table, while the rest of the activity still centers heavily on XRP Ledger and Ethereum together.
In practice, the ranking for commodity market-cap growth now places XRP Ledger ahead of Ethereum in the period described, while holder-address growth is a separate measure that XRPL does not lead. That means the headline about growth does not also mean XRPL ranked first on every network metric mentioned.
Market reaction i
The move was larger before the first headline than after. That is an observation, not an explanation: the market also moves on things nobody publishes.
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Where this sits in the Ethereum series
| When | What happened | Figure |
|---|---|---|
| 1.1 years ago | ETH at $4,245 high | today it sits -47.5% from there |
| 5 months ago | ETH at $1,566 low | today it sits +42.4% from there |
From what we have stored, starting 1.1 years ago.