XRP surged 8% to $1.23 as T. Rowe Price's actively managed crypto ETF wins SEC approval with XRP as a discretionary holding. Ripple targets $1B revenue, CLARITY Act stalls, and institutional short interest collapses — your full briefing for June 15.
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T. Rowe Price just got SEC approval to list an actively managed crypto ETF on NYSE Arca, and that's not a small thing.
XRP responded. On June fifteenth, the token moved from one dollar fourteen to one dollar twenty-three, an eight percent gain on the strongest volume since the early-June selloff.
CEO Brad Garlinghouse announced Ripple is targeting one billion dollars in operating revenue by end of twenty twenty-six. The detail that matters is what he explicitly excluded: XRP holdings.
On the regulatory side, the CLARITY Act's July fourth passage target is now officially off the table. Unresolved ethics provisions, committee merger delays, and the sixty-vote Senate threshold make it realistically impossible on that timeline.
Institutional confidence has other signals too. Short interest in Grayscale's XRP Trust fell fifty-eight point four percent in May, down to just under thirty thousand shares.
One development that hasn't made enough noise: India now requires per-transaction reporting on virtual digital asset activity, starting this fiscal year. Forty-four thousand tax notices have already been issued.
The real metrics to track from here are three. First, whether XRP holds one dollar eighteen and confirms the breakout as trend reversal rather than oversold bounce.
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