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Story: XRP Futures Drop $700M as XRPL Nears $4 Billion in Tokenized Assets

By Bruce Buterin

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Spot ETF Outflows Break a Nine-Week Streak. On the spot side, U.S. XRP exchange-traded funds saw net outflows of about $7.

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XRPL's $4 Billion Institutional Pipeline. Strip away the short-term noise and there's a bigger story building on the ledger side.

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XRP's futures market just took a serious hit. Open interest fell roughly $700 million in a matter of weeks, even as the XRP Ledger quietly builds what looks like a meaningful…

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The numbers are pretty stark. Per CoinGlass, XRP futures open interest slid from nearly $3 billion in June down to about $2.3 billion by mid-July.

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Funding rates told a weird story, though.

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XRP funding rates on Binance actually rose 266% during the same stretch. That means bullish traders are paying higher premiums to keep their long positions open — even as the…

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On the spot side, U.S. XRP exchange-traded funds saw net outflows of about $7.2 million for the week ending July 10, according to SoSoValue.

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Cumulative net inflows are still sitting at $1.48 billion, and fund assets were close to $1 billion by the end of that week. So it's not a collapse.

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Meanwhile, XRPL's own user activity is sending mixed signals. Santiment put XRPL at its second-quietest day of the year, with only 25,350 active wallets on a single day.

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Read also: XRP ETF Outflows Hit 2026 High as Institutional Appetite Fades Fast

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But here's the thing: the wallets that are active are doing more. Transactions using source tags — the kind exchanges and payment providers typically use — rose 28.6%.

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Transaction counts overall were up roughly 3% to 4% week-over-week and month-over-month, though they're still about 21% below the three-month average.

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Strip away the short-term noise and there's a bigger story building on the ledger side. Evernorth, a digital-asset treasury company, says about $4 billion in tokenized real-world…

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And the development roadmap is clearly aimed at pulling in more of that institutional money.

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For institutions, that matters a lot. Banks and asset managers aren't thrilled about competitors seeing every transaction in real time.

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