TechFlow reports that on April 15, Rakuten Wallet—the cryptocurrency trading and management platform operated by Japan’s leading e-commerce group Rakuten—will officially list XRP as both a tradable asset and a payment method, effective April 15, 2026. At that time, users will be able to purchase XRP directly using Rakuten Points and deposit XRP into Rakuten Cash for spending at over 5 million merchants across Japan.
With 44 million users, Rakuten Pay is a mainstream e-commerce payment platform in Japan; this move will expose XRP to a large number of non-crypto users. Users will also be able to directly exchange over 3 trillion Rakuten Points—valued at approximately $23 billion—into XRP. Rakuten has over 100 million members, and its annual e-commerce gross merchandise value reaches ¥5.6 trillion. XRP will thus become a spendable digital asset within the Rakuten ecosystem.
