XRP Price Prediction: XRP hangs on a loose thread, deeper correction below $2 impending?

Source Fxstreet
  • XRP loses crucial $2.00 support amid the weekend sell-off as technicals paint a grim picture.
  • The rising number of active addresses, reaching 1.48 million, highlights strong fundamentals.
  • Ripple whales buy the dip despite weak micro factors like a dropping RSI and a sell signal from the MACD.

Ripple (XRP) is extending losses below the previous week’s critical level at $2.00, as United States (US) President Donald Trump doubled down on tariffs, stressing that America must solve the trade deficit before making a deal. The international money transfer token is trading at $1.82 during the late Asian session on Monday, after correcting 10.7% in the last 24 hours and bringing the cumulative seven-day decline to 10%.

XRP whales buy the dip amid crypto market mayhem

XRP faces increasing selling pressure, which was made worse by Trump’s reciprocal tariffs on April 2. Speaking to reporters over the weekend, the President insisted that tariffs are here to stay until the US solves the apparent trade deficit. Global markets, including stocks and crypto, sank deeper in the red on Sunday, with Bitcoin and Ethereum correcting to trade at $78,400 and $1,576, respectively, on Monday.

Meanwhile, instead of panicking, XRP whales are scooping the discounted tokens and increasing their holdings. Santiment’s data reveals a significant increase in the number of coins held by addresses holding between 100,000 and 1 million tokens, from 5.189% to 5.267% of the total supply. Investors with between 10 million and 100 million XRP also increased their exposure and currently account for 3.406% of the total supply from 3.046%.

XRP supply distribution | Source: Santiment 

XRP’s network activity has also experienced a bump, with active addresses in the last 30 days rising to 82,000 from 78,811 posted on March 7. A spike in the active addresses metric suggests that more users or entities interact with the network and that adoption is growing, translating to higher volumes or an increase in the use of decentralised applications (dApps).

XRP Active Addresses | Source: Santiment

How low can XRP go? Exploring technical indicators 

XRP finally broke the descending triangle pattern, which forecasted a 68% drop in our Ripple analysis last week. With support at $2.00 out of the way, sellers can push their agenda, inflicting more pain on holders.

Technical indicators like the Relative Strength Index (RSI) continue plummeting, targeting the oversold region. If this trend continues, XRP could retest the $1.5 and $1 areas, respectively, not to mention the triangle projection to $0.67.

The Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) sustains a sell signal in the 12-hour timeframe, calling on traders to focus on shorting XRP and adding downward pressure.

XRP/USDT 12-hour chart

According to Coinglass data, XRP derivatives’ open interest has plunged further in the last 24 hours to $3.07 billion, indicating a 16% drop. Liquidations in the same period hit $38.33 million, comprising $34.63 million in long and $3.70 in short positions.

XRP open interest | Source: Coinglass

The onslaught could continue this week as global markets digest the impact of Trump’s tariffs. Conversely, growing interest from whales could absorb the selling pressure, allowing XRP to uphold higher support at $1.8 and accentuate a major recovery above $2.

Ripple FAQs

Ripple is a payments company that specializes in cross-border remittance. The company does this by leveraging blockchain technology. RippleNet is a network used for payments transfer created by Ripple Labs Inc. and is open to financial institutions worldwide. The company also leverages the XRP token.

XRP is the native token of the decentralized blockchain XRPLedger. The token is used by Ripple Labs to facilitate transactions on the XRPLedger, helping financial institutions transfer value in a borderless manner. XRP therefore facilitates trustless and instant payments on the XRPLedger chain, helping financial firms save on the cost of transacting worldwide.

XRPLedger is based on a distributed ledger technology and the blockchain using XRP to power transactions. The ledger is different from other blockchains as it has a built-in inflammatory protocol that helps fight spam and distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks. The XRPL is maintained by a peer-to-peer network known as the global XRP Ledger community.

XRP uses the interledger standard. This is a blockchain protocol that aids payments across different networks. For instance, XRP’s blockchain can connect the ledgers of two or more banks. This effectively removes intermediaries and the need for centralization in the system. XRP acts as the native token of the XRPLedger blockchain engineered by Jed McCaleb, Arthur Britto and David Schwartz.

Disclaimer: For information purposes only. Past performance is not indicative of future results.
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