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Story: XRP Active Wallets Down 47% as Ripple’s Institutional Push Fails to Move Markets

By Steven Anderson

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Santiment's 47% Loss Figure. The Santiment findings are specific: active wallets, not just dormant ones, are down 47% on…

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XRP Ledger Still Running, Market Still Cold. To be fair, the XRP Ledger itself hasn't broken down. It's still operating.

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What the Divergence Actually Means. The core tension here is simple to state, harder to resolve.

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XRP is bleeding. Badly. According to analytics firm Santiment, active XRP wallets have posted an average loss of 47% over the past thirty days — a number that's hard to spin as…

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That kind of drawdown doesn't happen in a vacuum. Analysts who track on-chain behavior often point to this type of wallet-level loss as a hallmark of market capitulation — the…

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The Santiment findings are specific: active wallets, not just dormant ones, are down 47% on average over thirty days. That's not a rounding error.

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Santiment's data also put a spotlight on something that's been nagging at XRP watchers for a while now.

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That's a disconnect. A pretty significant one.

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To be fair, the XRP Ledger itself hasn't broken down. It's still operating. Ripple's institutional work continues. None of that has stopped.

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This kind of thing isn't new to crypto broadly. The relationship between a blockchain's technical health and its token's price has always been murky.

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Read also: XRP Slips Under $1.35 as Traders Brace for Test of $1.30 Floor

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But XRP's situation feels particularly sharp right now. Ripple has worked hard to position itself as a serious institutional player, especially on the payments and cross-border…

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Skepticism is rising. That's probably the honest way to describe where investor sentiment sits.

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The core tension here is simple to state, harder to resolve. Ripple's institutional progress and XRP's market performance are moving in different directions.

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It's unclear yet which way that resolves. Probably no one knows.

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