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5 Deals, Zero Price Lift: Why XRP and Ripple's Growth Are Diverging | Oct 19
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XRP dropped 13% while Ripple signed five institutional partnerships in ten days — the gap between Ripple's business growth and XRP demand is widening. ETF outflows end a 13-week streak and exchange reserves hit the 99th percentile: here's what it all means.
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Five institutional partnerships in ten days. Zero price lift.
That tension gets sharper when you look at where RLUSD actually stands against its main competitor. Circle distributed eight hundred nineteen million dollars to over one hundred fifty partners in the first half of twenty twenty-six.
The ETF picture shifted this week too. US spot XRP ETFs recorded one-point-eight-four million dollars in net withdrawals in the week of October twelfth through sixteenth.
On the technical side, three separate Elliott Wave timing counts are converging simultaneously in late October twenty twenty-six. The reading is that XRP may be completing a double-zigzag correction near one-thirty, with recovery targets in the two-to-three dollar range if support holds.
Community sentiment has shifted noticeably. A year-end price prediction of two hundred ten dollars drew public backlash, with XRP holders noting that even two-ten, one hundred sixty times the current price, would require extraordinary catalysts none of them can currently identify.
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