Overview
- Buyers quickly absorbed a short drop to around $1.12 over the weekend and pushed price back toward $1.15, keeping XRP trapped in a roughly $1.10–$1.30 range.
- Exchange-held XRP supply has fallen to about 1.6 billion tokens, the lowest in seven years, which makes prices more sensitive to large moves by big holders.
- Institutional demand has been steady since ETFs launched in November 2025 with cumulative inflows near $1.45 billion and weekly net inflows of about $10.66 million.
- Trading and derivatives volumes have risen, with open interest and options activity up, raising the odds of volatile swings when order books are thin.
- Ripple’s product rollouts for RLUSD, MXNB partnerships, Mastercard settlement links and XRPL automation tools improve the token’s utility while the CLARITY Act’s Senate path remains an important regulatory catalyst.