XRP is the native bridge asset of the XRP Ledger. This is a live look of the last 72h on the XRPL DEX of trades going through XRP.
It's a protocol native functionality doing this by default. The XRPL routes automatically DEX offers through
$XRP if it improves the trade quality.
2 things are interesting here.
1) Because the XRPL DEX is native the protocol captures activity at scale much better than fragmented smart contract DEX's, through auto bridging for the long tail of assets. You simply operate always on the same DEX and that aggregates liquidity and trades.
2) The current usage is 0.16% of DEX trades in the last 72h.
For someone like myself who sees huge potential for the protocol and especially optimized trade quality by going through XRP on the DEX at scale when this number is double digits this is an exciting outlook to work towards.