XRP needs to push past $1.51 before any real breakout becomes possible, according to market commentator Matt Hughes — and one analyst thinks that moment could arrive this week, but not before the market knocks out the weakest holders first. A Pattern Years In The Making MichaelXBT, a widely followed crypto analyst, says XRP has spent months forming a falling wedge on its weekly chart — a structure that typically points toward an upside move once price breaks above the upper boundary. Related Reading: Zcash Soars 88% In 30 Days: Is ZEC The Stealth Winner Of This Crypto Cycle? The coin has been trapped in this pattern since July 2025, when it peaked at $3.66. Since then it has shed about 60%, landing near $1.37 amid a broader market selloff that took hold in October of that year. The upper boundary of the wedge stopped XRP cold multiple times. Attempts near $3 in late 2025 failed. A January 2026 push stalled at $2.41. Now, with price pressing into the narrowest part of the structure, Mic
On-chain data shows the XRP whales have gone on a 71 million coin buying spree over the past week even as the asset’s price has dropped. XRP Whales Have Increased Holdings Recently In a new post on X, analyst Ali Martinez has talked about the latest trend in the supply held by whales on the XRP network. “Whales” refer to the entities holding a considerable amount of the asset in their wallet balance. Related Reading: Bitcoin $78,000 Rebound Fizzles As Coinbase Premium Stays Red These investors can carry some degree of influence in the market thanks to their large holdings, so their behavior can often be worth keeping an eye on. The moves made by the whales may not always directly impact the asset, but they can still be revealing about the sentiment present among them. There are many ways to track the behavior of the whales, with one such being through their holdings. Below is the chart shared by Martinez that shows the trend in the supply of the large XRP holders. As is visible in the
XRP price started a recovery wave above $1.3620 and $1.3650. The price is now consolidating and might aim for a fresh move if it clears $1.3840. XRP price started a recovery wave above the $1.3640 zone. The price is now trading below $1.3820 and the 100-hourly Simple Moving Average. There is a contracting triangle forming with resistance at $1.380 on the hourly chart of the XRP/USD pair (data source from Kraken). The pair could continue to move up if it settles above $1.3840. XRP Price Eyes Fresh Gains XRP price remained supported above $1.350 and started a recovery wave, like Bitcoin and Ethereum. The price was able to climb above $1.3580 and $1.3620 to enter a short-term positive zone. However, the price is still below $1.3850 and the 23.6% Fib retracement level of the downward move from the $1.5495 swing high to the $1.3465 swing low. There is also a contracting triangle forming with resistance at $1.380 on the hourly chart of the XRP/USD pair. The price is now trading below $1.3750
XRP is one of the most debated cryptocurrencies, but crypto analyst Cryptollica believes the part most traders are missing is not only on the XRP/USD chart. In a new analysis shared on X, the analyst pointed to the XRP/NVIDIA ratio as a deeper signal of how much capital has ignored XRP and crypto while crowding […]
Crypto analyst Will Taylor, known as Cryptoinsightuk on X, said XRP’s market-cap dominance still shows a bullish structure despite its recent pullback from a key range high. His latest chart of XRP.D maps a potential long-term move toward 31.26% dominance, far above the current area near 3.315%. Taylor’s argument centers on market structure rather than short-term sentiment. In the chart, XRP dominance is shown holding above a major horizontal level around 3.315%, after breaking out from a multi-year range and failing to fully clear the 6.127% area. The weekly setup then compresses into a descending wedge, with the analyst suggesting that the retracement has not yet invalidated the broader breakout. “As I look at $XRP.D, I still struggle to feel bearish here,” Taylor wrote. “What I think we’re seeing is: a completed Wyckoff accumulation, a breakout above the major 3.315% resistance, a failed attempt to fully break through the 6.127% range high, then a pullback into a compressed descendi
XRP and RLUSD were described as serving separate XRP Ledger roles, with XRP routing trades and RLUSD supporting dollar-based transactions. Evernorth’s Sagar Shah described XRP as an intermediary asset that routes trades in the background, while stablecoins remain tied to issuer requirements and compliance obligations. XRP Ledger Routing Structure Separates XRP From RLUSD As tokenized […]
CME’s XRP futures suite has expanded within the regulated crypto derivatives market, reaching $62.87 billion in notional volume. The first-year figures show broader institutional use across futures, options, and spot-quoted XRP futures. XRP Futures Gain Depth Inside CME’s Crypto Market XRP has become a larger part of CME Group’s regulated crypto derivatives business as institutional […]
The Real World Asset (RWA) sector has seen remarkable growth over the past month, with the XRP, Solana (SOL), and Ethereum (ETH) ecosystems recording a significant increase in market value and adoption. However, among these three leading cryptocurrencies, XRP stands above with the highest growth rate. The cryptocurrency has surpassed ETH and SOL’s RWA expansion […]
