XRP Holds $1.14 as Exchange Supply Hits 7-Year Low, ETF Inflows Near $1.45B

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The XRP Ledger has pushed a set of critical fixes to the network through its 3.2.0 release after an independent security audit surfaced exploitable flaws. The review, carried out with blockchain security research firm Common Prefix, stress-tested the network’s consensus architecture using formal verification — mathematical modeling backed by machine-assisted proofs. During the work, auditors flagged computational inconsistencies in xrpld, the software that powers the network’s validator nodes, along with irregular system behavior that surfaced under specific conditions. The XRP Ledger Foundation confirmed that the identified defects have been remediated and folded into the 3.2.0 build. The patches carry extra weight because they touch the Payment Engine, the component that settles value transfers and underpins multi-currency payments and decentralized exchange functionality.

On the regulatory front, the institutional door has swung a little wider for XRP. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on June 12, 2026 approved the rule change clearing the T. Rowe Price Active Crypto ETF to list on NYSE Arca. The actively managed fund can rotate across roughly 5 to 15 altcoins depending on market conditions, and XRP, Solana, Dogecoin and Shiba Inu all sit on its eligible-asset list. Access delivered through a long-established asset manager reframes XRP — shifting it from a token tracked mainly by retail traders toward an instrument that advisor-managed and retirement-oriented portfolios can realistically hold.

On price, the story is one of a sharp drawdown followed by an attempt to find footing. XRP has slid roughly 68% from its cycle peak of $3.66 to around $1.14, leaving it well below the level recorded as its all-time high (ATH). Analysts read the coin’s ability to hold above the $1.10 to $1.30 band as a zone where accumulation is concentrating. Looking at prior cycles, drawdowns of this depth have often appeared in the late stages of an uptrend rather than signaling, on their own, that the trend is over. In a bullish scenario, traders are watching the $2.00 to $2.50 band first, then whether the $3.65 peak can be reclaimed.

On-chain readings from June 22 added a note of unease. The XRP Ledger’s payment statistics showed both account-to-account payment volume and active user counts dropping to zero on the same day. Over the prior year, daily payment counts had run steadily into the hundreds of thousands — and on many days cleared 1 million transactions — which made the near-vertical break stand out. A genuine unwinding of network activity would taper gradually, so a drop this abrupt points more toward a short-lived technical issue in data collection, an indexer outage or an API fault. Tellingly, price showed no sharp reaction that would suggest the network had actually halted; trading and volume continued uninterrupted across exchanges.

Across the broader market, the search for a floor is the dominant theme after heavy selling. Bitcoin lost its support in the $72,000 to $74,000 range and slid below $60,000, with bids emerging in the $61,000 to $63,000 band as selling pressure eased. Even so, Bitcoin is still trading beneath its 50- and 100-day moving averages, and former support at $72,000 now stands as firm resistance. Ethereum is working back toward $1,800 resistance while XRP tries to rebuild toward $1.20. Indicators recovering out of oversold territory point to a basing process rather than a strong rally, and the picture remains fragile under bear market pressure.

The supply side tells a more structural story. As XRP held the $1.10 to $1.30 band on June 21 and 22, the amount of XRP sitting on exchanges fell to a seven-year low. On June 22 the price dipped intraday to $1.1213 before a pickup in buying lifted it back to $1.148 within hours. XRP-linked investment products, meanwhile, drew $10.66 million in net inflows in the week ending June 18. On the ecosystem side, Ripple extended its integration of the dollar-pegged stablecoin RLUSD to Mastercard’s settlement rails and African payment corridors, and joined a peso-based MXNB project on the XRP Ledger alongside Bitso. The automated market maker (AMM) infrastructure run by the Payment Engine sits at the core of this expanding payments network.

According to COINOTAG’s 42-indicator composite support/resistance scoring engine (as of 23:55 UTC), XRP is trading at $1.1300, with the strongest support standing out at $1.1125 on a 76/100 score — a level fed by the confluence of the Fibonacci 0.114 retracement, S1 and the HVN 4 volume node. Below that, $1.0501 (66/100, lower Donchian band) acts as a buffer. To the upside, the first threshold sits at $1.1532 with 63/100, backed by the middle Bollinger band, the SMA 20 and the prior day’s high, followed by $1.2628 (62/100, Fibonacci 0.382 and upper Donchian band). RSI is weak at 39.24, though the MACD signal is bullish. On the derivatives side, the funding rate reads -0.0051, open interest stands at $678.97 million and the long/short ratio of 3.01 (75% long) signals heavily one-sided positioning; together with a Fear and Greed Index at 20 (Extreme Fear), a loss of $1.1125 would invalidate the constructive case.