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Story: XRP Surges Past $1.50 as Binance Sees 663% Inflow Spike

By James Thorp

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Buyers Are Eating the Supply. So where did all those tokens go? Basically, straight into buyers' hands.

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What the Reserve Data Actually Says. The 0.22% reserve increase above the quarterly baseline is worth sitting with for a second.

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The $1.80 Target and What Gets It There. Traders are watching $1.80 as the next meaningful level. Getting there from $1.

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XRP punched through $1.50. And the numbers behind that move are hard to ignore.

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Daily average inflows on Binance hit roughly 21.7 million XRP tokens during the week ending September 20, per CryptoQuant data.

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The gap between what's flowing in and what's accumulating on the exchange is the telling part here. Normally, a flood of deposits would push visible supply up and weigh on price.

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What that pattern probably means: buyers are absorbing new tokens almost as fast as sellers drop them on Binance. It's not a slow grind.

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Not a guarantee of anything. But it's a setup traders pay attention to.

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The 0.22% reserve increase above the quarterly baseline is worth sitting with for a second. Binance holds roughly 2.63 billion XRP.

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That's the core dynamic driving the bullish read here. It's not that XRP suddenly got a major fundamental catalyst — there's no new partnership or regulatory ruling cited in the…

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Whether that continues is unclear. Inflow surges can fade fast. If sellers keep depositing and buyers slow down even slightly, reserves will start building and price pressure…

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Still, the immediate price response was clean. Five percent in 24 hours, a clear break above $1.50, and an intraday print of $1.59. That's real movement, not noise.

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Traders are watching $1.80 as the next meaningful level. Getting there from $1.59 means another roughly 13% move. Not huge in crypto terms, but it's not automatic either.

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The math on reserves is probably the clearest signal to track. If Binance's XRP holdings stay flat or drift lower while inflows remain elevated, that's a sign buyers are still in…

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