XRP Ledger Transactions Jump 55.9% to 3.5 Million in a Day

25,700 Active Accounts, Fewer Payments

Activity on the XRP Ledger surged on Wednesday, October 21, but the XRP price has not followed. Data from the on-chain explorer XRPScan shows daily active accounts reached 25,700 that day, up about 12% in 24 hours and roughly 38% above the network's 30-day average of 18,600. New account creation rose 35.6% to about 4,500, which means most of the increase came from existing wallets that had gone quiet rather than from first-time users. A single person can control several wallets, and exchanges or automated systems operate many accounts at once, so the figure measures account activity on the blockchain, not the number of people using it. Transaction counts moved harder still. The ledger processed 3.5 million total transactions, a 55.9% jump from the previous day, and 2.9 million of them, up 67.8%, completed successfully. Throughput per ledger climbed 61.5% to 179.34 transactions, and fee burn from the busier network rose 20% to 747.6 XRP, a negligible sum against total supply. The split between activity and actual payments is the detail that matters. Payment transactions fell 4.4% to roughly 741,900, while the volume of XRP moved in payments dropped 49.6% to about 350.9 million tokens. The network was busier while moving less value, a mix that points to decentralized exchange orders, token operations and account management rather than large transfers, though a full breakdown of transaction types has not been published. The same release lists a separate active-user count down 50% to 85,200, a differently defined measure that should not be read directly against the 25,700 account figure. XRPScan's payments volume metrics confirm the divergence. When the dataset was published, XRP traded near $1.33 after an intraday range of $1.32 to $1.37; our live monitoring now puts spot near $1.31, down about 4.5% over 24 hours.

Santiment Counts 8.24 Million Funded Wallets

A second dataset points in the same direction. The on-chain analytics firm Santiment reports that the number of XRP Ledger wallets holding a nonzero balance has reached 8.24 million, an all-time high for the network. Santiment counts funded wallets, addresses holding at least some XRP, and a small reserve is required to activate an account, so the metric tracks reach rather than wealth. Its records show the count climbing steadily through months of price swings rather than spiking once, and the pace accelerated recently: 4,772 new wallets were created in a single day, the fifth-largest daily increase since March. Santiment took that reading while the token traded near $1.36, a level the market has since left behind. The firm frames its own data cautiously, saying network growth can feed higher prices only if the price trend confirms it. It lays out two scenarios for the short term. A sustained move above $1.40 combined with daily new wallet creation holding at or above about 4,000 would, on its reading, open a relatively quick return to $1.50. The negative case is a loss of $1.30 alongside daily new wallets falling below roughly 3,000, which would weaken the adoption read in the near term. The two Wednesday datasets measure different things, and the difference matters. Santiment's count is a slow-moving stock of cumulative holders, while the explorer's daily figures track activity that can spike on automated systems without new capital arriving. What they share is direction: more addresses hold XRP today than at any earlier point, and participation sits well above its monthly norm. Capital flows add their own nuance, with $112.4 million in recent XRP whale inflows to Binance against XRP ETF inflows that have reached $1.8 billion cumulatively.

Our composite support and resistance scoring frames the resulting map. The strongest floor sits at $1.2687, scored 98 out of 100, some distance below spot near $1.31, while the heaviest resistance stands at $1.4061, scored 85 out of 100, close to the $1.40 trigger in Santiment's scenario. Positioning leans long, with 77.1% of tracked accounts holding longs and open interest near $913 million. With the token down about 4.5% over 24 hours, the $1.30 threshold is already in play, and losing it would leave the 98-score floor at $1.2687 as the next meaningful defense. Readers tracking the levels can follow our XRP technical analysis page.