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XRP<a href="https://yellow.com/asset/xrp" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">(XRP)</a> fell below $1 after a 635-day run above the level even as XRP Ledger adoption hit records, with $4.06 billion in real-world assets.<h2 id="key-points">Key Points:</h2><blockquote><ul><li>XRP first fell below $1 on Aug. 11, ending 635 consecutive days above the level.</li><li>XRP Ledger real-world assets reached about $4.06 billion after adding roughly $2.5 billion over six months.</li><li>Institutional settlement activity can bypass XRP, weakening the case that ledger adoption automatically creates demand for the token.</li></ul></blockquote><h2 id="xrp-price-break">XRP Price Break</h2>XRP <a href="https://beincrypto.com/xrp-price-below-1-despite-record-adoption/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">first</a> slipped under $1 on Aug. 11, printing $0.9915 and ending 635 consecutive days above the psychological threshold, its first breach since November 2024. The level remains under pressure.Buyers would need to reclaim $1.03 to improve the short-term structure, while analysts see $0.70 to $0.90 as the next support after XRP briefly traded below Ripple’s RLUSD<a href="https://yellow.com/asset/rlusd" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">(RLUSD)</a> stablecoin.SoSoValue data showed U.S. spot XRP products drew $3.27 million in August through the report date, roughly 88% below the $27.29 million recorded in July. Price support has not followed adoption.Also Read:<a href="https://yellow.com/news/cardano-defi-tvl-institutional-demand" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Cardano DeFi TVL Jumps 14M ADA While Institutions Stay On Sidelines</a><h2 id="adoption-divide">Adoption Divide</h2>The bullish case rests on network use: Aviva Investors, which manages $351 billion, launched a tokenized fund on the XRP Ledger, while real-world assets there reached about $4.06 billion after adding roughly $2.5 billion in six months.Lark Davis said “the token network relationship is genuinely unresolved,” a dispute sharpened by a monthly RSI reading at its most extreme level in 12 years. Santiment also recorded 32 new wallets holding at least 1 million XRP over three months.Yet Ripple completed 10 major institutional deals in 2026 using RLUSD rather than XRP, while Standard Chartered targets $2.80 and analyst Ali Martinez sees downside toward $0.62.After XRP’s 2018 peak, the token lost 95% over the following two years, and it now trades about 72.5% below its July 2025 record. Those swings frame the current $1 test.Read Next:<a href="https://yellow.com/news/kraken-payward-profit-ipo-paused" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Kraken Parent Payward Sees Profit Crushed 71% With IPO Still Paused</a>

XRP Breaks $1 Floor, $4.06B In Ledger Assets Still Fail To Lift Price

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