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The price of XRP is back trading at $1.40, as Ripple’s monthly escrow transaction removed 700 million XRP from circulation. Yesterday morning, Ripple unlocked 1 billion XRP, then re-secured 70% of it, resulting in a net issuance of 300 million tokens.
The relock, worth approximately $974 million at prevailing prices, was confirmed via multiple on-chain payments in the XRP Ledger. The timing also overlapped with the conclusion of Ripple’s XRP Las Vegas 2026 conference, where XRP was positioned as a future global reserve currency, sparking a 2-4% rally outpacing the largely stable altcoin market.
During the Vegas event, Ripple’s stablecoin RLUSD was simultaneously listed on OKX across more than 280 spot pairs, adding the benefit of an asset bridge to the rally thesis. It’s undeniable that Ripple is rippling, but can XRP follow?
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XRP price will reach $1.50 next?
XRP has crossed the breakout level at $1.39 and is now consolidating above the 100 hourly simple moving average, with an upward trend line intact on the hourly chart. The 7-day RSI is at just below 40. It is in an oversold state, leaving a healthy amount of room before holders would normally start taking profits.
Volume is down 25-32% to the $1.68-2.98 billion range, and buying at a key resistance level is rarely a green flag. Wave C correction and RSI bullish crossover complete, but caution that conference-driven pumps often lack follow-through once hype over the event subsides.
XRP is likely to consolidate between $1.38 and $1.45, institutions await Amount To confirm the penetration. RLUSD’s reliance on OKX could provide the next demand catalyst. But again, it’s Ripple, not XRP
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Bitcoin Hyper is looking to the upside in the early stage while XRP is testing the breakout level
An XRP price at $1.40 is a really constructive setup, but even bull case targets of $1.55, or even perhaps $2.00, represent a 10-40% upside from a $73 billion market cap. This is a meaningful step. It is also nowhere near the asymmetry available at the infrastructure layer, where the real influence of this cycle tends to remain.
Bitcoin Hyper ($HYPER) It positions itself as an infrastructure play: the first ever Bitcoin Layer 2 with Solana Virtual Machine (SVM) integration, providing sub-second finality and low-cost smart contract execution while inheriting Bitcoin’s security layer.
The project addresses the three fundamental limitations of Bitcoin. Hyper fixes slow Bitcoin transactions, high fees, and lack of programmability with Canonical’s decentralized bridge for native BTC transfers and high-speed SVM processing.
The pre-sale has sparked north $32.5 million At the current price $0.0136with huge 36% annually Staking is available to early participants.
Look for Bitcoin Hyper before the next price phase.
