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<p><strong>Last Updated: October 19, 2026</strong></p>
<p>XRP traded near $1.29 on the morning of October 19 (UTC), little changed over 24 hours and down about 7% over seven days, after dipping to about $1.26 on Sunday, October 18, and rebounding to about $1.31 early on Monday, while trading volume rose 54% to about $1.74 billion, according to CoinMarketCap. The token has fallen from about $1.52 on October 4 to about $1.29 on October 17, a decline of roughly 15%, and three facts explain the mood. US spot XRP ETFs recorded a net outflow of about $1.84 million in the week to October 16, the first weekly outflow after 13 straight weeks of inflows, according to SoSoValue. XRP Ledger payment volume fell to about 119.5 million XRP on October 17, 72% below the previous day and about a fifth of its 30-day average, according to XRPSCAN. And the broader market opened the week under “Black Monday” chatter tied to the 39th anniversary of the 1987 crash, with Bitcoin near $82,800 after dipping below $80,000 last week. The nearest firm date is October 23, when the fixCleanup3_4_0 bug-fix amendment is due to activate on the XRP Ledger.</p>
<h2 id="key-takeaways">Key Takeaways</h2>
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 <li>XRP trades near $1.29, up 0.25% over 24 hours and down about 7% over seven days, according to <a href="https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/xrp/" rel="noopener noreferrer">CoinMarketCap</a>. Market capitalization is about $82.0 billion, 24-hour volume jumped 54% to about $1.74 billion, and circulating supply is 63.12 billion XRP out of a total supply of 99.98 billion. XRP closed the week to October 16 at $1.30, down 6.5% on the week, while Bitcoin is down about 1.4% over the past seven days.</li>
 <li>US spot XRP ETFs posted a net outflow of about $1.84 million for October 12 to 16, ending a 13-week run of inflows, according to SoSoValue. The week turned on Friday’s $2.47 million redemption, all of it from Canary Capital’s XRPC; over the week Bitwise’s fund lost about $3.01 million while Franklin Templeton’s XRPZ added $3.64 million. Net assets fell to about $1.47 billion from $1.57 billion a week earlier, and cumulative net inflows stand at about $1.80 billion. Bitcoin ETFs lost $228.58 million and Ether ETFs $319.97 million over the same week.</li>
 <li>The fixCleanup3_4_0 amendment has the support of 29 of the 35 validators on the default list, the minimum needed to clear the 80% threshold, and is scheduled to activate at about 09:34 UTC on October 23 provided no validator withdraws before then, which would restart the two-week countdown. The fix closes a loophole that could let an account authorized only to burn tokens on an issuer’s behalf create new ones in certain conditions, and it revises how vaults round amounts and when the lending code treats a loan as late or in default. The Lending Protocol amendment itself has 19 votes, 10 short of activation, so lending on the XRP Ledger cannot go live before early November at the earliest.</li>
 <li>On-chain and derivatives data lean bearish. Total XRP held on exchanges reached 11.81 billion on October 17, in the 99th percentile of the past year, according to CryptoQuant, and Binance open interest fell to $453 million from $538.1 million on October 4. Combined Binance and Bybit open interest dropped by 175 million XRP, or 26.5%, between September 23 and October 16, funding rates were negative on six of the previous 11 days, and whale transaction volume on the ledger fell 44% week over week.</li>
 <li>Evernorth, which holds about 473 million XRP, saw its Nasdaq-listed shares close at $15.45 on October 16, down 3.86% on the day and about 8.6% below their $16.91 close on the October 12 debut, as it prepares fourth-quarter deployments with Ripple, Kraken, Coinbase and BitGo. On October 15, Ripple Prime added real-world asset perpetual swaps referencing more than 100 markets in equities, indices, ETFs, metals, energy and currencies, traded around the clock with RLUSD accepted as collateral; Virtu is among the clients, and the release does not mention XRP. XRP was also the most traded asset on South Korea’s Upbit in the week to October 18, ahead of Bitcoin and Tether, according to 24/7 Wall St.</li>
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<h2 id="xrp-market-overview">XRP Market Overview</h2>
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    <th scope="col">Metric</th>
    <th scope="col">Value</th>
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    <td>Price</td>
    <td>$1.29</td>
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    <td>24h Change</td>
    <td>+0.25%</td>
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    <td>7d Change</td>
    <td>about -7%</td>
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    <td>Market Cap</td>
    <td>~$82.0 billion</td>
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    <td>24h Volume</td>
    <td>~$1.74 billion</td>
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    <td>Circulating Supply</td>
    <td>63.12 billion XRP</td>
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<p>Data sourced from CoinMarketCap, morning of October 19 (UTC); 7-day change from CoinGecko.</p>
<h2 id="xrp-news-today-price-analysis">XRP News Today: Price Analysis</h2>
<p>The weekend low came on thin demand rather than a single headline. XRP slipped to about $1.26 on Sunday, October 18, as traders passed around warnings of a “Black Monday” on the anniversary of the October 19, 1987 crash; Santiment counted 176 mentions of the phrase on Sunday against fewer than two a day over the prior 60 days. The rebound from $1.26 to $1.29 on Sunday triggered only about $240,000 in short liquidations across Binance, Bybit and OKX, a sign that it came from a lack of sellers rather than a wave of buyers. Volume picked up on Monday, rising 54% to about $1.74 billion, but XRP gave back most of its early move to about $1.31 and traded near $1.29 by late morning UTC. Bitcoin held near $82,800, down about 1.4% on the week, so XRP’s roughly 7% weekly loss is about five times the market’s. Our <a href="https://blockchainreporter.net/ripple-price/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">XRP price page</a> has live quotes and the January 2018 all-time high of $3.84.</p>
<p>The ETF streak ended with a whimper, but it ended. The $1.84 million weekly outflow equals about 0.12% of the funds’ net assets, and it came down to a single day: Friday’s $2.47 million redemption from Canary Capital’s XRPC more than erased Wednesday’s $740,400 inflow, with Thursday close to flat. The 13-week streak had been the main sign that institutional demand was absorbing supply while the price fell, and net assets have dropped from $1.70 billion on October 6 to $1.47 billion on October 16, mostly because of the lower price. Monday’s flows will show whether the outflow was a one-day event or the start of a pattern. XRP is not being singled out: SoSoValue data show Bitcoin and Ether ETFs losing a combined $548.6 million last week.</p>
<p>On the ledger, the news is a fix before a launch. The fixCleanup3_4_0 amendment had exactly 29 votes on October 19, the minimum needed, and it partly repairs the uncollateralized lending system Ripple has pitched to banks and payment companies since June, as well as closing the burn-only loophole. It follows an emergency release, xrpld 3.4.1, which more than 80% of default validators installed within a day of its September 25 release to patch a 64-bit overflow bug dating to 2015 that could in theory have been used to create XRP; RippleX published the details and source code on October 9, and Ripple says the flaw was found through its bug bounty program before it could be exploited. The Lending Protocol amendment has 19 of the 29 votes it needs and the vault amendments 21, and neither has started its two-week countdown, which matters for Evernorth: its plan to lend from its treasury depends on native lending being switched on. The tallies are tracked on the <a href="https://xrpl.org/resources/known-amendments" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">XRP Ledger’s known amendments page</a>, and our report on the <a href="https://blockchainreporter.net/evernorth-completes-armada-merger-nasdaq-listing/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">completed Armada merger</a> has the Evernorth deal terms.</p>
<p>The on-chain picture is the part worth watching. XRPSCAN recorded about 119.5 million XRP in ledger payment volume on October 17, down 72.3% from the previous day and far below the 30-day average of about 629.3 million, while CryptoQuant data put exchange reserves at 11.81 billion XRP, a level in the 99th percentile of the past 365 days, with Binance taking in 22 million and 29 million XRP in large transfers on October 13 and 14. Analyst Ali Martinez says $1.25 needs to hold to complete the right shoulder of a possible inverse head-and-shoulders pattern, that a sustained close above $1.56 would open a path toward $2, and that a loss of $1.25 would put $1 back in focus. Our <a href="https://blockchainreporter.net/price-prediction/xrp-price-prediction/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">XRP price prediction for 2026</a> covers the longer-term targets.</p>
<h2 id="support-and-resistance-levels">Support and Resistance Levels</h2>
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    <th scope="col">Level Type</th>
    <th scope="col">Price</th>
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    <td>Key Resistance</td>
    <td>$1.39</td>
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    <td>Immediate Resistance</td>
    <td>$1.33</td>
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    <td>Immediate Support</td>
    <td>$1.26</td>
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    <td>Key Support</td>
    <td>$1.25</td>
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<p>$1.39 is the bottom of the $1.39 to $1.44 band that capped XRP last week, $1.33 is the first resistance analysts mark above Monday’s rebound high near $1.31, $1.26 is Sunday’s low, and $1.25 is the level analyst Ali Martinez is watching, with $1.22 and $1.00 the next zones analysts cite below it. Levels are illustrative, not guaranteed.</p>
<h2 id="why-is-xrp-trending-today">Why Is XRP Trending Today?</h2>
<p>XRP is trending on the end of the spot ETF inflow streak, a weekend low of $1.26 that briefly broke the $1.30 to $1.32 support zone, the October 23 activation date for the XRP Ledger bug fix, and the drop in ledger payment volume that on-chain analysts flagged over the weekend. For the full market picture, see <a href="https://blockchainreporter.net/crypto-market-today/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">crypto market today</a>, and for today’s other headlines, check <a href="https://blockchainreporter.net/crypto-news-today/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">crypto news today</a>.</p>
<h2 id="what-this-means-for-the-days-ahead">What This Means for the Days Ahead</h2>
<p>The first daily ETF figures since the streak ended will show whether institutional demand has paused for a day or for longer, and a second weekly outflow would confirm the shift. October 23 is the activation date for fixCleanup3_4_0, and any validator withdrawing support before then would push it back by two weeks. Ripple’s Swell conference runs October 27 to 29 in New York, the Federal Reserve announces its rate decision on October 28 after September’s 25 basis point increase to 3.75% to 4.00%, and on November 1 two escrow objects holding a combined 1 billion XRP become eligible for release. Ripple-controlled escrow held 31.40 billion XRP on October 18, and Ripple re-locked about 70% of the 12 billion XRP released over the previous 12 monthly cycles, including 700 million of the 1 billion released on October 1.</p>
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    <th scope="col">Date</th>
    <th scope="col">What to Watch</th>
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    <td>October 19 to 20</td>
    <td>First daily US spot XRP ETF flows since the inflow streak ended</td>
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    <td>October 23, about 09:34 UTC</td>
    <td>Scheduled activation of the fixCleanup3_4_0 amendment, if 29 validator votes hold</td>
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    <td>October 27 to 29</td>
    <td>Ripple Swell conference, New York</td>
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    <td>October 28, 2:00 p.m. ET</td>
    <td>Federal Reserve rate decision</td>
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    <td>November 1, 00:00 UTC</td>
    <td>1 billion XRP becomes eligible for release from Ripple’s escrow</td>
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<p>On the chart, XRP needs to hold $1.25 to $1.26 to keep Sunday’s low from becoming a lower low. A reclaim of $1.33 would open $1.39, and only a close above $1.56 would change the structure, according to Martinez. Momentum is weak rather than washed out: the RSI sits near 38, below the neutral 50, while a short-term reading near 24 is in oversold territory, and oversold readings have produced only short-lived bounces this month, as the October 16 rebound to $1.34 showed.</p>
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<h2 id="where-to-buy-xrp">Where to Buy XRP</h2>
<p>XRP can be bought on major exchanges including <a href="https://blockchainreporter.net/exchanges/binance/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Binance</a>, <a href="https://blockchainreporter.net/exchanges/coinbase/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Coinbase</a>, Kraken, KuCoin, Gate.io, <a href="https://blockchainreporter.net/exchanges/okx/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">OKX</a>, and <a href="https://blockchainreporter.net/exchanges/bybit/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Bybit</a>. US investors can also get exposure through spot XRP ETFs in a brokerage account.</p>
<p><em>Data sources: CoinMarketCap and CoinGecko (prices and volume), SoSoValue (ETF flows), XRPSCAN (ledger payment volume), CryptoQuant (exchange reserves and open interest), Santiment (social mentions), and the XRP Ledger known amendments page (validator votes).</em></p>
<p><em>This article is for informational purposes only and does not constitute financial advice. Cryptocurrency markets are volatile; always do your own research before investing.</em></p>
<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="faq">FAQ</h2>
<p><strong>What is the price of XRP today?</strong><br> XRP trades near $1.29 on the morning of October 19, 2026, up about 0.25% over 24 hours and down about 7% over seven days. Market capitalization is about $82.0 billion, and 24-hour trading volume rose 54% to about $1.74 billion, according to CoinMarketCap. XRP dipped to about $1.26 on Sunday and remains roughly 66% below its January 2018 all-time high of $3.84.</p>
<p><strong>Why is XRP down this week?</strong><br> XRP is down about 7% in seven days because demand has thinned on several fronts at once. US spot XRP ETFs posted their first weekly outflow in 14 weeks, ledger payment volume fell 72% on October 17, exchange reserves sit near a one-year high of 11.81 billion XRP, and open interest on Binance and Bybit has dropped 26.5% since late September. Bitcoin is down only about 1.4% over the same period.</p>
<p><strong>Did the XRP ETF inflow streak end?</strong><br> Yes. US spot XRP ETFs recorded a net outflow of about $1.84 million in the week to October 16, ending 13 straight weeks of inflows, according to SoSoValue. Most of it came from a $2.47 million redemption from Canary Capital’s XRPC on Friday. Cumulative net inflows remain near a record $1.80 billion, while total net assets fell to about $1.47 billion from $1.57 billion a week earlier.</p>
<p><strong>When will the XRP Ledger bug fix and lending protocol go live?</strong><br> The fixCleanup3_4_0 amendment is scheduled to activate at about 09:34 UTC on October 23, 2026, provided it keeps the support of 29 of the 35 default validators until then. The Lending Protocol amendment has 19 votes, 10 short of the threshold, and has not started its two-week countdown, so native lending on the XRP Ledger cannot go live before early November at the earliest.</p>

XRP News Today: XRP Holds Near $1.29 as Spot XRP ETFs End a 13-Week Inflow Streak and an XRPL Bug Fix Nears Activation

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