Overview
- XRP hovered around $1.85–$1.90 over the weekend, with sellers repeatedly defending the $1.90 area even as trading volumes spiked, according to CoinDesk.
- New spot XRP ETFs have drawn nearly $1 billion in net inflows through mid‑December and now hold about $1.25 billion in assets without a recorded day of net outflows.
- Glassnode data show centralized‑exchange balances near 1.5 billion XRP, and market estimates indicate roughly 750 million tokens have been absorbed by ETFs since November.
- The multi‑year SEC dispute effectively ended in August when both sides dropped appeals, and Ripple later received conditional approval for a U.S. national bank charter in December.
- Ripple’s 2025 build‑out included a ~$1.3 billion RLUSD stablecoin, about $2.7 billion in acquisitions, a $500 million raise at a $40 billion valuation, and a plan to bring native lending to XRPL with voting expected in late January 2026.