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Story: XRP Drops to $1.05 as Fed Decision Looms Over 7 Active Spot ETFs

By Julie Binoche

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Seven XRP ETFs, and Flows That Haven't Cracked. Since late 2025, seven U.S. spot XRP ETFs have been live.

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Fed Decision Could Crack the Range Either Way. Most market participants seem to expect no rate change at the upcoming meeting.

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Market Cap Math and an Emerging Alternative. XRP's market cap sits above $60 billion. That's not a small number, and it matters for anyone…

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XRP slid to around $1.05, off roughly 5% in a single day. Traders aren't panicking yet, but they're not exactly buying either.

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Bitcoin fell to approximately $63,450 after briefly touching $64,900, and that defensive mood spread pretty much everywhere.

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Since late 2025, seven U.S. spot XRP ETFs have been live. That's a meaningful number — seven separate products competing for institutional dollars.

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The gap between weak price action and steady ETF demand is basically the central tension for XRP right now. Prices are soft.

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Bitcoin's Coinbase premium has gone negative, which means spot buying from U.S. institutions is subdued. XRP tends to underperform during these risk-off stretches.

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Most market participants seem to expect no rate change at the upcoming meeting. A 25 basis point hike is still on the table, though, and that possibility alone is enough to keep…

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Some analysts think easing later this year could support an XRP recovery, especially if ETF interest holds.

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More context: Meta AI Sees Bitcoin Hitting $78K as CLARITY Act Vote Looms

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Resistance sits between $1.18 and $1.20. If buying pressure picks up — and a dovish Fed statement could do that — there's a path to $1.22, maybe even $1.32.

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The price has been compressing for weeks. That kind of technical setup tends to resolve sharply in one direction. The Fed announcement is the most obvious trigger.

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Bitcoin Hyper is worth mentioning here — not as a direct comparison, but as context for where some of that speculative appetite might be going.

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XRP at $1.05 is a macro trade with a specific thesis: Fed pivots, institutional ETF demand holds, resistance breaks. It's not a complicated story.

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