
KEY POINTS
- $RLUSD is pegged to the U.S. dollar and 'is not an opportunity to get rich'
- Some investors were willing to pay up to 511 $XRP tokens for the first few $RLUSD coins
- An analyst said $XRP's spike stopped because of people who were trading their $XRP coins for $RLUSD
The cryptocurrency community was in a frenzy Tuesday night after Ripple's stablecoin RLUSD launched in select exchanges worldwide – over 700,000 posts were about "1la RLUSD" as crypto holders raced to explain why the stablecoin traded at $1.50 at one point earlier in the day on MoonPay.