China’s yuan strengthened to 6.6957 per dollar Monday, its strongest level since January 2023, as the People’s Bank of China eased its longstanding grip on the currency’s appreciation. For nearly a year, Beijing had deliberately set its daily reference rate weaker than markets wanted, capping the yuan’s rise. That restraint loosened sharply this month, just …
XRP is trading at $1.49, up 8% over 24 hours and nearly 7% over the past week, as the broader crypto market added billions in trading volume today alone. The total market cap has climbed to $2.99 trillion, up 6.2%. It’s Not Just XRP Bitcoin broke above $84,000 for the first time in eight months, …
Table of contents1. August Changed the ETF Market2. ETF Volume Races Toward $6B3. Early September Flows Stayed Positive4. Cumulative Inflows Reaches $1.71B5. About 1.1B XRP Represented by ETF Holdings6. Wall Street’s XRP ETF Exposure7. September 15: CLARITY Act Vote Fails8. XRP Drops After the Senate Setback9. September 16: FED Raises Rates10. ETF Flows Turn Negative …
Ripple has expanded its banking footprint in Africa as Absa Corporate and Investment Banking launches Absa Digital Asset Custody using Ripple’s custody technology. The service gives institutional clients access to bank-backed digital asset storage, bringing cryptocurrencies and tokenized assets into a regulated banking setup. Absa Deploys Ripple’s Digital Asset Custody Platform On September 21, 2026, …
XRP price could be worth about $100 per token at a $10 trillion market capitalization if its full 100 billion supply is used in the calculation. Using the reported circulating supply of 62.74 billion XRP produces an implied price of about $159. According to analysis by cheeky crypto, the difference comes from the XRP supply …
The September 2026 XRP rich list shows that holders need about 44,237 XRP to rank among the top 1% of XRP holders. The threshold for the top 10% stands at roughly 2,100 XRP, while about 7,400 XRP is needed for the top 5%. The top 4% requires around 10,140 XRP, followed by 13,949 XRP for …
XRP price has jumped to around $1.39, up 6.6% over the past 24 hours. While the gain looks positive, XRP remains far below its previous highs. Meanwhile, crypto analyst Ali Martinez has spotted a bullish inverse head-and-shoulders pattern that could push XRP toward $2 if key resistance breaks.“XRP on the verge of triggering a 35% …
Macro analyst Jim Willie said in a recent podcast interview that a brewing bond market crisis, tied partly to geopolitical tension from the Iran war, could push countries toward using neutral settlement assets instead of US Treasuries for trade between each other. He argued that as nations grow wary of holding debt from countries seen …
A rare chart pattern in XRP’s history is pointing to a number that sounds almost too big to believe, $11, and the analyst behind the call says it’s not a guess, it’s based on math the market has followed before. XRP price is sitting at a make-or-break support zone right now. Hold it, and the …
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse says the Senate’s failed vote on the Clarity Act does not affect XRP or Ripple’s operations, pointing to the legal clarity the company already won in its court case with the SEC. What Garlinghouse Said Speaking at the HDAX event alongside Esther George, Garlinghouse reiterated that the Clarity Act’s outcome has …
A new SEC filing has surfaced for the CYBER HORNET S&P 500 and XRP 75/25 Strategy ETF, filed September 16 under Collaborative Investment Series Trust. It joins CYBER HORNET’s existing 75/25 strategy ETFs tied to Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana, adding to Wall Street’s growing lineup of XRP-linked products. Separately, the Moscow Exchange, Russia’s largest, launched …
XRP ETF demand returned just as investors pulled heavily from Bitcoin and Ethereum funds. On September 16, XRP ETFs recorded $3.5 million in net inflows, while Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs lost about $520 million combined. This has created a sharp split in institutional crypto flows after the Fed’s latest rate hike. XRP ETFs Attract $3.5 …
Ripple, a blockchain-based payment network, has released its updated Version 1.1 of its XRP Ledger (XRPL) AI Starter Kit, adding support for Stripe and Tempo’s Machine Payments Protocol (MPP). The update allows AI agents to make automatic payments for APIs, data, and computing services using XRP, RLUSD, and other supported tokens. Ripple Adds Support for …
Evernorth CEO Ashish Birla said RLUSD’s expansion on the XRP Ledger is central to deepening liquidity across the network, describing the dollar-backed stablecoin as “paramount” to XRP’s broader ecosystem. He said RLUSD’s share of XRP Ledger supply climbed from roughly 20% to 34%, a jump he called 642% growth. Birla tied that growth directly to …
XRP is trading at $1.27, down 10% over 24 hours and 11.2% over the past week, following a decline that broke a key technical support level chart watchers had been monitoring for weeks. Today’s drop lands directly ahead of the Federal Reserve’s rate announcement, expected around 2:00 PM ET, with markets pricing in a roughly …
Crypto payments have moved beyond a niche use case, with public merchant directories now tracking tens of thousands of businesses that accept digital assets globally. Bitcoin remains the dominant payment cryptocurrency, while Ethereum, Litecoin, Bitcoin Cash, Dogecoin, and stablecoins also maintain a meaningful merchant presence. The U.S. shows particularly strong adoption, driven heavily by consumer …
Grayscale has allocated 26.11% to XRP in its new Next Gen portfolio, making it the second-largest holding behind Ether at 42.34%. Solana follows with a 21.09% allocation. Together, the three assets account for nearly 89% of the portfolio. The model excludes Bitcoin and includes seven crypto funds designed for financial advisors.
XRP price fell more than 11% during the day, with the sharpest drop coming after the U.S. Senate failed to advance the CLARITY Act. XRP traded near $1.28, down from about $1.47 at the start of the session. Its market cap stood at $80.79 billion, while 24-hour trading volume rose 41.2% to $6.49 billion. XRP …
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse says Monday’s CLARITY Act defeat “stings,” and he’s promising a full breakdown of what went wrong in the days ahead. The CLARITY Act failed to advance in the Senate, falling well short of the 60 votes needed for cloture, not even reaching 50 votes. Garlinghouse called it a painful loss for …
Speaking at a digital asset event in Kansas City, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse said that while he supports the CLARITY Act, its fate won’t determine crypto’s future. “When you have a technology that’s better, faster, stronger, that usually wins,” he said, arguing existing financial infrastructure simply hasn’t kept pace. Garlinghouse also called it “ridiculous” that …
Bitcoin has dropped to $76,426.03, down 2.9% over 24 hours, fully erasing its recent pump as markets grow uneasy ahead of today’s critical Senate vote on the CLARITY Act. Ethereum fell below $2,500 to $2,423.76, down 3.8%, while XRP slipped to $1.40. More than $200 million in crypto positions have been liquidated over the past …
XRP is trading at $1.48, up 6.4% over 24 hours, as momentum builds ahead of Tuesday’s cloture vote on the CLARITY Act. Republicans released what they’re calling their “last, best and final offer” on CLARITY ahead of Tuesday’s vote. Galaxy Digital’s Alex Thorn raised his odds of CLARITY passing in 2026 from 10% to 25% …
XRP is trading at $1.40, up 4.3% over 24 hours, a bounce from the $1.34-$1.35 range it held for much of the week, against a backdrop of unusually busy institutional and infrastructure news across the Ripple ecosystem. Smart Money and Retail Are Moving in Opposite Directions On-chain data shows a widening gap between retail and …
Attorney Bill Morgan said the newly released final text of the CLARITY Act settles a long-running argument in crypto once and for all. He said XRP will be classified as a commodity in secondary markets regardless of how much of the supply Ripple continues to hold. “Deal with it Bitcoin maxis,” Morgan wrote, referencing critics …
XRP is trading near $1.35, down 1.9% today though still up 4.7% over the past week. The token is testing a level that mattered heading into the weekend, last week’s key support zone around $1.355, and slipping below it now, though not decisively enough yet to call the setup broken. According to a crypto analyst …
Crypto liquidity is becoming increasingly divided across networks and market sectors. Ethereum and Tron still hold the largest stablecoin reserves, while Solana is leading spot DEX activity and Hyperliquid dominates on-chain perpetual trading. The latest on-chain data shows that the largest stablecoin base does not necessarily translate into the highest trading activity. Solana is generating …
A recurring criticism of XRP, that it ranks far behind other blockchains on public tokenization league tables, misses what the token is actually built to do, according to commentary from Apex Crypto and a co-host discussing the topic on a recent podcast. Their argument centers on a distinction between tokenization platforms and settlement instruments, and …
XRP is trading near $1.35 as reports highlight its strong performance over the past year, up 384%, outpacing both Bitcoin and Ethereum. The token has also shown lower correlation to other cryptocurrencies, something analysts say could make it more attractive for portfolio diversification. Some experts say this could eventually help XRP move somewhat independently from …
XRP price has fallen nearly 8% over the past week, dropping from around $1.47 on September 3 to about $1.35. The decline comes as the broader crypto market also moves lower, while investors await next week’s Senate vote on the Clarity Act. The key question for XRP price is whether the token can hold the …
Ripple CTO David Schwartz reignited XRP’s flippening debate this week, telling a Twitter Spaces audience that XRP overtaking Bitcoin’s market capitalization is more likely to happen through XRP’s own growth and adoption than through any collapse in Bitcoin’s price. Crypto analyst Zach Rector broke down what that statement actually implies for XRP’s price, running the …