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Story: XRP Whales Accumulate $2.2 Billion in 96 Hours as Market Signals Shift

By Evie Vavasseur

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Cold Wallets, Binance Inflows, and What It All Means. Here's where it gets a bit interesting. On-chain data picked up a substantial wave of XRP flowing…

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The $1.55 Level That Everyone's Watching. Technically, XRP is sitting on a setup that bulls find pretty compelling.

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Large XRP investors didn't wait around. Over just four days, whale wallets absorbed roughly 1.54 billion XRP tokens — worth about $2.

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The move has traders talking. Whale address balances, tracked by analytics platform Santiment, broke through a plateau that had held for some time.

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Here's where it gets a bit interesting. On-chain data picked up a substantial wave of XRP flowing into Binance — which, under normal conditions, you'd read as bearish.

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Instead of a drop, demand absorbed the inflow. Tokens moved off exchanges quickly — into cold wallets, long-term storage, out of immediate circulation.

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The cold wallet migration is kind of the whole story here. Investors moving tokens into cold storage aren't planning to sell tomorrow. They're locking up supply.

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Technically, XRP is sitting on a setup that bulls find pretty compelling. An inverse head and shoulders pattern has formed on the XRP/USD daily chart — a formation that traders…

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See also: XRP Surges 6.93% as Bitcoin Climbs Above $80,000

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But patterns don't confirm themselves. The key level is $1.55.

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A daily close above that resistance would do a couple of things. It'd validate the technical pattern.

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Bulls need to hold that pressure. Can't let the momentum bleed out. A failed close above $1.55 and the whole setup gets murkier.

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The four-day buying frenzy has built up a head of steam, but the market is still watching, still waiting.

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Whale investors carry outsized influence in crypto markets — that's not new. Their accumulation patterns shift sentiment, affect liquidity, and can trigger cascading interest…

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See also: XRP Open Interest Plummets 32% on Binance as Uniswap and NEAR Rally 30%

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