From the Journal · July 24, 2026

The XRPL Metaverse Is Quietly Building — Here’s Who’s Behind It

A quick note from the studio on why the XRP Ledger metaverse is worth watching right now — and where to read the full story.

The XRP Ledger’s flagship metaverse, xSPECTAR, is having a genuine moment — and our Web3 marketplace app, Nexaria Digital, just published a full breakdown of the last 30 days.

Why the studio is watching

Smith App Studio builds across a lot of surfaces, and one of our apps — Nexaria Digital — lives in the Web3 world, helping people own, list, rent and monetize digital assets. So when an entire on-chain ecosystem starts moving at once, we pay attention.

Right now that ecosystem is the XRP Ledger, and the most active corner of it is xSPECTAR, an XRPL-native metaverse built in Unreal Engine 5. Over the past month it has drawn Ripple’s own XRPL presence, teased a big Q4 (“Q4 will melt faces”), and welcomed a wave of independent studios building in-world under the banner #BuildersForBuilders — including Quantum Realm Studios, America1stXRPL and TokenPunks.

Read the full breakdown

Rather than repeat it here, we’ll point you to the complete, fully-linked write-up on the Nexaria blog: xSPECTAR Momentum Watch: The Builders Lighting Up the XRPL Metaverse. It names every project, links each one, and puts the month in the context of XRPL’s broader 2026 run.

More from the studio

If you’re here for the apps rather than the metaverse, that’s the main event — browse the whole family at smithappstudio.com, or start with our introduction in The Help Desk #01.