RippleX has announced that users of Rakuten Wallet can now convert Rakuten Points directly into $XRP, trade it in-app, and spend it across more than 5 million merchant locations, marking one of the largest real-world retail deployments of $XRPto date.

The rollout connects a massive consumer ecosystem, over 44 million Rakuten Pay users, and roughly $23 billion worth of loyalty points, with direct access to $XRP, effectively bridging rewards, tradi