Ripple has transformed from a cross-border payments company into a full-stack financial infrastructure provider by acquiring firms worth $2.45 billion in 2025. Key acquisitions include Hidden Road for prime brokerage and GTreasury for treasury management, enabling Ripple to offer custody for over 1 million wallets, 90% global forex coverage, and its USD-backed stablecoin RLUSD. This integrated platform reduces fragmentation costs for institutional clients and leverages Ripple's regulatory licenses across 60+ markets. While this expansion doesn't directly affect XRP token dynamics, it positions Ripple against competitors like Coinbase Prime and Fireblocks, with future growth to be measured by transaction volume beyond the $100 billion processed by March 2026.
XRP saw the largest 24-hour increase in open interest at 4.56% among five major crypto perpetual futures, including Bitcoin, Ether, Solana, and Dogecoin. All assets had a positive funding rate of 0.0100% per eight-hour period, favoring short position...
XRP's price has moved above the upper Bollinger Band on its four-hour chart following a period of very low volatility, known as a squeeze. This breakout is seen as a possible sign of a bullish trend forming, similar to a previous setup in August that...
RLUSD's total supply on the XRP Ledger fell by over 30% to $850 million, while its supply on Ethereum rose by 34% to $1.7 billion, signaling a shift in stablecoin activity. Despite this, XRP wallets holding over 1 million tokens reached a 2026 high o...
David Schwartz, Ripple's CTO emeritus, highlighted that increasing use of the XRP Ledger (XRPL) could drive higher demand for XRP due to its unique roles in liquidity, trading, and transaction fees. He emphasized XRP's advantages, such as acting as a...
XRP's price increased by 2.33% within one hour, reaching $1.31 on Binance's XRP/USDT spot market as of 9:50 a.m. ET on Nov. 4. Over the past 24 hours, XRP gained 2.67%, with the price moving from $1.28 to $1.31 in the last hour. During this period, $...
