According to recent insights from COINOTAG on January 16th, XRP’s recent upward momentum can be attributed to several pivotal factors. In an interview, Ryan Lee, Chief Analyst at Bitget Research, emphasized that a favorable shift in Ripple’s ongoing legal confrontation with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) serves as a major driving force. A potential restructuring within the SEC leadership could further enhance this trajectory.
Moreover, the overall political environment in the United States appears to be increasingly crypto-friendly, fostering a more conducive landscape for digital assets. Notably, activity in the XRP derivatives market has reached unprecedented levels, with recent data from Coinglass revealing a remarkable 22.66% surge in the open interest of XRP futures contracts across leading crypto derivatives exchanges, culminating in a record high of $7.7 billion.
This growth trend is further supported by the XRP perpetual futures open interest, which indicates a positive funding rate, reflecting robust market confidence. Over the last eight hours, the funding rate has stabilized around 0.01%, underlining traders’ willingness to incur a premium to sustain long positions, suggesting a prevailing optimistic sentiment surrounding XRP.