XRP fell below $1 on Tuesday, leaving the token down more than 1% on the day and over 2% on the week even as Ripple unveiled a third South Korean partnership for 2026 with Jeonbuk Bank. The lender will become the first regional bank in South Korea to deploy Ripple Payments for business cross-border transfers aimed at importers, exporters, IT startups and online content creators, using a route Ripple says can settle in seconds to minutes instead of the multi-day SWIFT process. Ripple described the service as near real-time stablecoin settlement but did not identify the asset used, underscoring a disconnect between the company's institutional expansion and XRP's market performance as Ripple has spent the past year promoting RLUSD for institutional settlement. That split is also visible on the XRP Ledger, where tokenized real-world assets total about $1.38 billion and RLUSD accounts for $845 million, while derivatives traders remain net bullish with roughly $2.78 billion in open interest and long-to-short ratios above 3-to-1 on Binance and OKX despite the most negative social-channel commentary on XRP in three months.