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XRP's network activity has contracted almost completely since its speculative peak, leaving a fragile market. The 90-day average of total fees fell 91.5%, from 5.9k XRP in February 2025 to 0.5k, a collapse in organic transaction demand. Only 58.5% of supply is in profit, the lowest since November 2024 despite a price about 4x higher, so late buyers dominate. The realized profit-to-loss ratio has sunk to 0.38 from 50 at the 2025 peak, a hallmark of intense capitulation. x.com x.comÂ
XRP's speculative wave has largely unwound at the network level, leaving the market fragile. New addresses have fallen 85%, from 18k a day in December 2024 to 2.7k, and monthly active supply has dropped from 7.45B to about 2B XRP a day. Only 58.5% of supply is in profit, the lowest since November 2024 when the price was $0.53, leaving 41.5% (about 26.5B XRP) in loss, a top-heavy market dominated by late buyers. x.comÂ
XRP faces mild selling risk as Binance's share of its supply may be rising while bears look more dominant. That share rebounded from about 2.58 to 2.66 in October; daily XRP Ledger transactions reached about 2.49 million, up 14.78%. More transactions do not automatically mean buying: they include sellers, and their destination and value are unknown. With price weak, rising exchange supply could add downside pressure, though these indicators do not directly determine price. x.comÂ
XRP's weak volume makes today's bullish mood hard to trust despite positive XRP Ledger and Ripple news. Aviva Investors added a tokenized share class and Ripple launched a treasury product, but Nodiens Coin Insights reports 24-hour volume down 24.1%, a -0.81 Sharpe ratio and a 63.60% drawdown. Volume needs to recover before the bullish mood is credible. x.comÂ
The broader crypto bull market should help XRP do very well into 2027, even as its adoption case looks less compelling. More tokenization appears to be happening on Ethereum than XRPL, Ripple feels a bit behind on innovation, and fast cross-border settlement is less distinctive now. A rising XRP price would not necessarily signal long-term success for XRPL. x.com x.comÂ
XRP faces a prolonged liquidity vacuum because 2026 capital is front-running AI cloud infrastructure and mega-cap tech IPOs instead of flowing into beaten-down altcoins as in past cycles. The chart may look symmetrical with prior cycles, but the macro backdrop isn't; a defensive retest of $0.70, which @CheekyCrypto calls the largest buying zone in eight years, is not enough. Challenging $3.32 would take a massive return of hyper-liquidity. x.comÂ
XRP is a pre-mined corporate token, not a bet on the future of money. The promise that banks will use XRP has been dangled before retail investors for years, while Ripple keeps wheeling fresh tokens out of escrow and dumping them on buyers. Bitcoin has absolute scarcity; XRP has lore, escrow, conference booths and a holder base trapped waiting for bank adoption. Buying it in 2026 is like finding a Blockbuster gift card in a landfill and calling yourself early to the future of entertainment. … Show more
Ripple's Swell event could give XRP a bump once Bitcoin finishes its correction, as more XRP news arrives while the token is already in the buy zone. Franklin Templeton added $150M in tokenized money-market fund shares to the XRP Ledger; that is adoption, not $150M of XRP buying. XRP has been cheap enough to hold. x.com x.comÂ
Selling XRP to retail as decentralized amounts to fraud, and its mandatory closed-source update exposes the risk. The network has run closed-source code for two weeks; tomorrow it becomes mandatory, and dissenting validators get removed via a permissioned node list. Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana point validators to open-source fixes, since closed binaries could hide malicious code. Consensus rests on lists published by Ripple and the XRP Ledger Foundation, and insiders took all supply to sell. … Show more
Bitcoin offers poor risk/reward after a head fake on the majors, with liquidity vanishing and altcoins lacking momentum. That setup likely means a painful liquidation of all the sloppy risk piled on. x.com x.comÂ
Ripple's growing distribution and financial scale are expanding the wider XRP ecosystem. RLUSD is now available on Coinbase and Coinbase Prime for users and institutions to convert dollars at 1:1. Ripple says it is on track to exit 2026 at $900 million in annualized product revenue, after enabling over $16 trillion in transactions across its products in 2025; it reports 1,700-plus clients, over 85 regulatory licenses and final approval for a US National Trust Bank charter. x.com x.comÂ
Internet Computer's combination of massive activity and tiny costs is exactly what blockchain adoption needs. It is among the most active blockchains by transaction count, yet its average transaction fee was just $0.0000828. x.comÂ
