XRP Trails Bitcoin by 8% Over Seven Days of Altcoin Selling

An 8% Gap Against Bitcoin

XRP has spent the past seven days losing ground to every major asset it is usually measured against; the token shed roughly 12.4% over the week while Bitcoin fell 4.9%, leaving XRP close to 8% weaker against the leading cryptocurrency by market cap. The gap accumulated through a Sunday session in which selling ran across the entire altcoin complex: Ethereum lost 7.4% over the same seven days and Solana 8.6%, yet the drawdown in XRP still finished the deepest of the group. Measured against Bitcoin alone, the difference compounds to nearly 8% of the token's value in seven days, a gap that has widened on every bounce. Market data showed a 4.9% loss for the token in the 24 hours to early Monday, and live pricing has since put the XRP price near $1.09, about 6.9% lower over the same span; the token had been quoted around $1.10 before the overnight wave came through. A large share of those orders reached the market through basic order types, and the thinning order book deepened slippage as sellers pressed into the bid. Bitcoin's own retreat carried it to roughly $73,761 at one point on Sunday before a partial recovery, a move that set the tone for everything trading below it, and its weekly loss stayed at 4.9%, less than half of XRP's. Unlike Bitcoin (BTC), XRP did not claw back a meaningful share of its losses into Monday morning; the recovery bid that lifted BTC after its Sunday low largely passed the token by. The relative-weakness pattern is the structural fact of the week; whatever drives each session's selling, XRP has absorbed more of it than its peers, as the weekly table makes plain.

Nvidia Board Opens Inquiry

Sunday's escalation arrived from outside the crypto market. Weekend reports carried claims that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang had been involved in an affair with a businesswoman whom U.S. intelligence has accused of connections to Chinese espionage, and Nvidia's board has since opened an independent investigation into whether its chief executive was the target of a foreign intelligence operation. The company has emphasized that it sees no reason to believe national security or corporate secrets were compromised; so far nothing beyond the board's statement has been disclosed, with no scope, timeline or finding published. The stock still fell about 3.4% in after-hours trading, and the tremor carried into risk assets broadly; an artificial-intelligence trade that has supported equity and crypto valuations alike for two years suddenly faced a governance question with no visible end date. Nvidia, whose chips anchor much of the global AI buildout, is among the most closely watched names in technology equities, which is why a story about its chief executive moved markets well beyond the stock itself. Crypto held no direct exposure to the allegations; what it absorbed was the second-order effect, a haircut across every asset priced off the same growth assumptions. Within the XRP community, the pushback against XRP-specific readings came quickly. Vet, a widely followed XRP Ledger validator, made the point in a sarcastic post on X, writing that he forgot to mention an XRP thesis does not protect against the Nvidia executive's conduct; the November 8 post also noted that Ethereum and Solana had taken heavy losses of their own, framing the sell-off as market-wide pressure rather than a verdict on the ledger itself. Bitcoin's smaller weekly loss is what turned that shared pressure into an 8% relative gap.

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A Scored Floor at $1.0523

COINOTAG's composite scoring places the strongest support under the market at $1.0523, a level carrying a score of 81 out of 100, with dense resistance overhead at $1.1404 scored 95; XRP's market cap now sits near $69.0 billion. Positioning has not flipped with the tape: perp funding still reads positive at 0.0039% and open interest stands near $781.9 million, so the leveraged long side has yet to be flushed, even after sessions that saw long bets liquidated. With the scored floor near $1.05, commentary that XRP's $1 zone is back in play has already resurfaced. What the Nvidia shock did not change is the week's underlying shape; the gap against Bitcoin has held through every intraday bounce, funding has stayed positive throughout, and until that relative pattern breaks, the XRP technical analysis resistance near $1.14 remains the ceiling the tape must clear.