Ripple is advancing its efforts to integrate XRP and Ripple USD (RLUSD) into the AI agent payment market, challenging the dominance of USD Coin. The company has introduced the "XRPL AI Starter Kit," designed to help developers create AI agent payment functionalities on the XRP Ledger. This toolkit facilitates payments, balance checks, and wallet operations, supporting automated workflows via the x402 protocol. Despite these developments, Ripple has not yet announced any large-scale customers or real-world transaction data for AI agent payments, indicating that the initiative is still in its early stages of infrastructure and ecosystem development.