XRP Ledger Activity Hits 2026 High at 32,604 Active Accounts

Active Accounts Reach 32,604

XRP Ledger activity climbed to its highest reading of the year on Tuesday, October 27, when daily active accounts, the unique senders on the network, reached 32,604. That count sits well above the 30-day average of 19.4K and marks the busiest day the XRP Ledger has recorded since the start of 2026. The XRP price is moving the other way: the token trades near $1.29, down 2.6% over the past 24 hours, and has slid since early October, when it changed hands close to $1.50.

The market has not followed the ledger higher. Our composite support and resistance scoring puts the strongest overhead barrier at $1.3401, scored 100 out of 100, where the 20-day and 100-day exponential moving averages meet the first pivot resistance; the nearest floor is $1.2536, scored 95 out of 100, and it lines up with the $1.25 zone buyers have defended twice. Spot trades near $1.29 at this writing, marginally higher than when the activity figures were published. Positioning leans long: open interest stands at $909 million and the long/short account ratio reads 3.81, with 79.2% of accounts long, while the RSI at 39.64 and a sideways trend classification confirm the momentum gap between usage and price. Sentiment sits in the middle, with the crypto fear and greed index reading 51 out of 100.

For most of the past year, daily active accounts held between 13K and 20K. A handful of short spikes lifted the count above 30K, but each faded within days. The latest jump is wider and cleaner than those moves, and it follows a deep trough in late August and early September, when activity collapsed to nearly 4,000 accounts. The all-time high of 106K active accounts, set in an earlier cycle, still stands far above both the October peak and the current level.

The Usage-Price Divergence

The surge is already cooling. The most recent reading has eased to 30.5K, down 6.3% in 24 hours, with the count pulling back sharply toward 18K. Even after that retreat, the ledger is carrying materially more daily users than it did a few weeks ago, when numbers sat near the bottom of the yearly band. On the chart, the token now trades below its 50-day and 100-day moving averages near $1.33 and $1.36, and the 200-day average close to $1.37 sits overhead too, leaving three layers of resistance between the market and any recovery. Buyers have defended the $1.25 zone twice in recent weeks; below it, the next areas are $1.20 and the August breakout band near $1.10 to $1.15. Our XRP technical analysis tracks these levels in real time.

Higher active accounts can reflect more senders settling payments, trading or moving funds across venues, and that pattern, taken alone, supports the network's long-term case. Ripple, the ledger's main commercial backer, has been building the usage story around a projected $900M product revenue run-rate for the year. Short-term price behavior, however, has never tracked ledger activity one for one. Spikes in accounts can come from bots, airdrop claims or one-off events, and every prior peak this year faded within days, dropping the count back inside its old band. The infrastructure side keeps broadening as well: the XRP Ledger Foundation recently expanded its 35-validator list with Flare, which strengthens the network's base without moving the tape. For XRP to turn bullish, price has to reclaim the 50-day average near $1.33 and then the 200-day close to $1.37, levels that have turned back every rally since early October. Trading volume has stayed low through the decline, which suggests the sell-off has been orderly rather than panic-driven, but it also means buyers have not committed size. The reading above holds only while activity stays elevated: if daily active accounts cool back into the 13K-to-20K band, the way earlier spikes did, while price loses the $1.25 support, the usage argument loses its force and the sideways trend simply extends. A sustained hold above 30K combined with a reclaim of $1.33 would be the first sign that the busy ledger is finally being priced in.