The Kansas Jayhawks football team showcased XRP branding during their 51-6 season-opening victory over Long Island University, marking one of the first major football appearances for the cryptocurrency since Kansas Athletics signed a multi-year sponsorship with Ripple. The partnership includes XRP patches on uniforms across all university athletic teams and financial and technology education programs for students. Ripple also expanded its college sports presence with a similar deal at Florida Athletics, featuring XRP branding at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium. These deals increase XRP's visibility beyond traditional crypto markets into mainstream college sports audiences.
On September 6, the open interest in altcoins exceeded that of Bitcoin for the first time since December 2024, driven by increased leverage in Zcash, XRP, and Solana. Despite this shift, Bitcoin still holds about 37% of the open interest in perpetual...
XRP traded around $1.40 on September 7, showing consolidation after a strong August rally. Technical analyst Dark Defender sees patterns similar to past major rallies, projecting a potential rise to $18.23. Weekly net inflows into US spot XRP ETFs sl...
The XRP Ledger's BatchV1_1 amendment currently holds 68.57% support from validators, short of the required 80% needed to start its two-week activation countdown. This update allows bundling up to eight transactions into one, enabling new use cases li...
XRP's market leverage has decreased by 14%, with open interest falling from $558 million to $478 million and funding rates turning negative, indicating reduced speculative buying. Despite this, Binance's XRP reserves remain stable, and deposit addres...
Bitwise Asset Management's XRP spot ETF has reached over $500 million in assets under management just nine months after launching on the NYSE in November 2025. This milestone is notable as it occurred despite a significant decline in XRP's price, ind...
