🔥 $XRP Going Crazy on Deribit – Pump Incoming or Fake Out?
XRP is moving like a beast today on Deribit. First, funding rates shot up showing traders were ready to bet heavy on the upside. Right after that, open interest crashed hard, which usually means positions were wiped out or traders pulled back fast. But just as quick, open interest bounced again, like fresh money jumped back in. That kind of whiplash isn’t random, it shows a battle going on between bulls and bears in real time.
The bigger picture matters here. $XRP already has ETF filings making noise, and the XRP Mastercard launch gave the community a fresh bullish vibe. Those things normally set the stage for upside, but the way traders are jumping in and out makes me feel like this market isn’t ready to move cleanly yet. It’s building pressure.
For me, it feels like one of those setups where you either catch a monster breakout or get dumped on hard if you chase too late. The volatility isn’t a bad thing—it’s a sign XRP is getting attention again. I’m watching if the next funding rate spike lines up with another open interest surge, because that’s when things can really blow up. Right now, it’s pure chaos, but sometimes chaos is the start of something big.
XRP's Little Brother Becomes Top 100 Cryptocurrency
Ripple USD (RLUSD), the stablecoin tied to Ripple’s ecosystem, has now officially made it to the biggest 100 cryptocurrencies byCoinMarketCap, reaching $687.7 million with a supply of 687.95 million tokens already in circulation.
Designed to match $1, RLUSD is holding its peg tightly, and with $84 million in 24-hour volume, it is now seeing daily flows comparable to some mid-tier altcoins that have been around for years, even though it was launched just this year.
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Its trading presence has quickly spread across both centralized and decentralized exchanges. Bitstamp, Kraken and Bullish are running active markets, while Curve and Uniswap have added decentralized depth.
According to CoinMarketCap, the most liquid books are onXRP and USDC pairs, each handling tens of millions of dollars in turnover, with smaller but still active flows seen against BTC, ETH and SOL. This distribution givesRipple stablecoin more reach than many expected in its early weeks, pointing to Ripple’s networking push to make it a useful settlement token.
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What stands out is that RLUSD, despite its newcomer status, is already sitting alongside other well-known stablecoins in terms of adoption. It now ranks just below PayPal’s PYUSD, which has a market cap of around $1.15 billion, and above smaller projects like FDUSD and World Liberty USD.
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The big players in the sector — USDT at $167.1 billion and USDC at $68.1 billion — dominate the field, but RLUSD’s climb into the same leaderboard shows it has scaled much faster than many other attempts at entering the $290 billion stablecoin market.
$ASR I only see 2 options, it’s either a Pump & Dump, or all #FanTokens are going to shoot up 🚀, with ASR being just the first one. I’m going with the second option... I want more FanTokens⚽!!!
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