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Story: XRP Holds $1.41 as $25M ETF Inflows Fail to Spark Rally

By Evie Vavasseur

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ETF Money Returns in April. The ETF picture turned around last month. After March became the first month ever where XRP funds…

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Why XRP Can't Keep Up. The disconnect is kind of wild. Money flows into XRP ETFs. Ripple expands globally.

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Waiting for a Real Breakout. Traders keep waiting for that decisive move. The one that finally breaks XRP out of this range and…

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XRP sits around $1.41. That's pretty much where it's been for days, even after exchange-traded funds pulled in nearly $25 million this week. The token touched $1.

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Ripple keeps busy on the business side. The company partnered with OKX to list RLUSD, its stablecoin product, and opened fresh headquarters across the Middle East and Africa.

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The ETF picture turned around last month. After March became the first month ever where XRP funds closed in the red, April saw money flow back in.

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Bitcoin hit a three-month high near $83,000 recently. Solana jumped. Dogecoin surged over 8% in a single week. XRP? It ended April up 2%. That's it.

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Analyst Ali Martinez thinks breaking past $1.45 could unlock higher prices. He's not alone—plenty of traders see potential targets above $1.

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The disconnect is kind of wild. Money flows into XRP ETFs. Ripple expands globally. The company settles major legal issues and buys strategic assets. Yet the token itself just...

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Bitcoin's rally to nearly $83,000 sparked talk of altseason. That's when smaller coins typically explode while Bitcoin consolidates. Except XRP missed the memo.

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Ripple's strategic wins—the SEC settlement, the acquisitions, the global expansion—haven't translated to price action. Not yet, anyway.

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See also: XRP ETFs Pull $1.3B as Ripple Joins Cyber Defense Network

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Traders keep waiting for that decisive move. The one that finally breaks XRP out of this range and sends it toward those $1.80+ targets analysts keep mentioning. So far, nothing.

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The $25 million in ETF inflows should've helped. Fresh money entering the market typically drives prices higher, especially when it's concentrated in a single asset.

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Other coins didn't have this problem. Solana ripped. Dogecoin jumped. Even smaller altcoins managed respectable gains as Bitcoin's rally lifted the entire market.

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