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XRP is a cryptocurrency created by Ripple Labs, designed to facilitate fast, low-cost cross-border payments and settlement between financial institutions.
XRP drew $145.6 million in won trading on Upbit on Oct. 15, ahead of Bitcoin at $126.5 million and Ethereum at $92.1 million. Crypto Briefing and Bitcoin News tie the lead to South Korea's block on 27 offshore exchanges, but the evidence for a retail rush into one altcoin is thin.
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XRP trades near $1.33, 62.5% below its January 2018 peak of $3.55, while bitcoin and ether stay far above their 2017 highs. Supply growth of 63% explains a drop to about $2.18, so demand-side factors have to account for the remaining fall.
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Wallets publicly attributed to exchanges added 83.94 million XRP over Oct. 13-15, taking the tracked total to 22.06 billion, CryptoSlate reported. The 0.38% rise raises a supply question, though balance data alone cannot show that anyone is selling.
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Ethereum fell 5.5% and XRP 5.1% in 24 hours against Bitcoin's 3.1% after September CPI rose 3.7%, Decrypt reported. Two analysts it quotes split on the cause: one points to the dollar and rate-hike odds, the other to profit-taking after a strong run.
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Evernorth, the Nasdaq-listed XRP treasury company, will deploy portions of its 473 million XRP through Ripple, Coinbase, Kraken and BitGo from Q4 2026. Its yardstick is XRP per share, so the yield on deployed tokens has to outrun any losses from counterparties.
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Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana ETFs shed $1.248B in the week to Oct 9, SoSoValue data reported by Cryptopolitan show. XRP funds drew $11.31M, under 1% of that, and relative to fund size the selling sits mostly in Ethereum.
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Crypto exchanges liquidated about $803 million in leveraged positions over 24 hours, 86% of them longs, according to CoinGlass. SanDisk perpetual futures took $19.09 million of that, ahead of XRP's $18.78 million.
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Researchers found an integer overflow in the XRPL payment engine that could theoretically have created XRP from nothing. The 18 trillion XRP figure came from controlled testing, and a dev.to write-up says nobody minted it on the public ledger.
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Evernorth closed its SPAC merger with about 473 million XRP and $300 million in gross cash ahead of a planned October 12 Nasdaq debut as XRPN. Only about 84 million of the tokens were bought for cash, crypto.news reported from proxy figures, so fresh XRP demand depends on how the company spends its money.
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XRP Ledger developers disclosed an integer-overflow bug in xrpld 3.4.0 and earlier that could have minted XRP beyond its 100-billion supply cap. The patch skipped the validator vote, so the cap's defence rested on one team and on node operators upgrading fast.
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US spot XRP ETFs took in a net $11.31 million last week, their 12th straight weekly inflow, according to Sosovalue data. Cumulative inflows of about $1.8 billion now exceed the $1.57 billion the funds hold.
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Doppler Finance's XRP vault passed 90 million XRP on Oct. 12, up about 76% from 51.09 million on Feb. 27, according to its transparency reports. As much as 83% of that gain was in hand by June 19, before Evernorth's Nasdaq listing.
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Binance XRP/USDT turnover fell 78.6% over the completed October 8-10 sessions while the closing price rose 1.6%, CryptoSlate reported. Binance and Bybit open interest was still below its October 8 level on October 11, and CryptoSlate sees no clear evidence of sustained buying behind the rebound.
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XRP Ledger payments by AI agents over the x402 protocol passed 13 million across 166 merchants, RippleX engineering head J. Ayo Akinyele said on October 10. On the tracker run by Ripple-backed t54, they have settled less than one RLUSD per thousand payments, so merchants are getting traffic with very little income behind it so far.
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Evernorth now expects its XRP treasury to start trading on Nasdaq as XRPN on October 12, four days later than it guided on October 1. The slip is small, but both dates are still expectations that hinge on customary closing conditions and Nasdaq's listing requirements.
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RippleX fixed a 2015-era XRP Ledger bug that let one payment create spendable XRP beyond the token's 100 billion supply cap. Both built-in safeguards would have missed it, so the cap's record on public networks rests on RippleX's finding of no exploitation.
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Ripple Prime writes total return swaps for US leveraged ETFs and collects the financing fees, while XRP fell more than 8% in a week to $1.39. Swap clients need no XRP, so the revenue builds Ripple's value without adding token demand.
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Ripple won a Malaysian court charge on Seamless Group's 60% Tranglo stake, priced at $400 million, to collect $24 million in unpaid XRP invoices. The charge became absolute a day after Currenc's deadline to sell that stake to New Margin passed without a disclosed closing.
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XRP Ledger held $1.338 billion in tracked stablecoins on Oct. 7 while its chain fees for the day came to $528, DefiLlama data show. Because fees and reserves scale with transactions and accounts, how much XRP that base needs depends on the inventory that bridges and liquidity pools keep between trades.
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Firelight on Oct. 6 activated loss cover for Sentora's DeFi vaults, backed by an XRP staking pool that passed 50 million tokens in March. Stakers collect operator-paid fees and are slashed after a confirmed loss, so XRP holders now underwrite DeFi exploit risk.
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