RIPPLE XRP - Largest of 2026?! Records Being Broken! You Know What Comes Next!

Added: 2026-05-16

[00:00:01]You know, it's been kind of quiet as of late in terms of the news for XRP, for XRP ledger, but that doesn't mean progress has not been being made. In fact, we are now hitting some record levels that I'm excited to share with you guys for XRP. Some very big things taking place behind the scenes. In fact, this has now become uh one of the largest weeks we have seen in 2026. May actually end up being the largest. We'll discuss all that and more in this video.

[00:00:26]So again, if you're new or haven't already, make sure you like, comment, subscribe, show your support for the channel down below. But I will say that yesterday XRP got just a a little bit poppy, a little bit excited. Um, we actually closed yesterday up, what was it, 4% after surging almost uh 8%. I think we actually might have been up eight or nine% for the day. Uh, and we were looking really, really good. And a lot of that excitement came off of yesterday's Clarity Act voting in the Senate Banking Committee. Obviously, I've talked about that in every video today. Um, I will say that that was a major hurdle for the industry that has now been crossed, has been passed, and now we're waiting for this to actually go to the Senate floor for voting, which probably won't take place for a few weeks, but it's an exciting step forward nonetheless. And we continue to make major progress in this industry, and we are accelerating towards adoption. And obviously, the developments that have taken place for XRP ledger um have positioned us very well for infrastructure adoption, right? Now, here's the thing is XRP has been very quiet as of late, but it has been slowly churning up and to the right. You guys can see a very clear deviation from the long-term trend. This is an uptrend. It has been an uptrend since basically the start of April. And yesterday actually brought us to the highest price we had seen since all the way back in the middle of March. So, great steps forward being made there. This is obviously while BTC is continuing to show some resilience near the top of its trend.

[00:01:50]This does need to hold. And here's what I will say is obviously we had some ugly news to start the week. We had some good news yesterday. We don't need any surprises this weekend. Remember there still is hanging out there the potential bombing campaign that might be coming from the US uh in Iran. Hopefully that is not going to happen. Hope we don't get surprises. Obviously things have changed just a little bit since uh Donald Trump sat down with Xi Jinping and did the you know summit in China. So hopefully we hear positive news.

[00:02:21]Hopefully, we hear news of progress, right? That's what we want. We don't want progress. We don't want uh regression, right? We don't want escalation, if you will. Now, we're still dealing with a lot of capital sitting on the sidelines that has not rotated into the market yet, but it is slowly but surely creeping in. I don't know if you guys have noticed this, and we're starting to see some of the onchain um some of the onchain data reflect reflecting in this. Um totally lost my train of thought how I was going to explain that. We are seeing the onchain data uh impact fundamentals.

[00:02:54]For example, XRP ledger actually hits an all-time high of 332,230 wallets holding at least 10,000 XRP, signaling growing conviction from larger holders even amid months of price uncertainty. But that's not the only thing. XRP whales are at their highest accumulation since 2018, holding 45.83 83 billion tokens worth 68.5 billion as XRP eyes $150 according to Santiment. So again, you're watching fundamentals.

[00:03:26]Wow, I said that weird. Fundamentals get stronger and stronger and stronger while retail again has questions and uncertainty while the market's stuck in basically this neutral state. There doesn't seem to be a whole lot going on.

[00:03:38]Doesn't matter for the big players. They just continue to buy and buy and buy and build their positions and and prepare for uh the future. We're obviously once again seeing XRP get very close to BNB.

[00:03:48]Uh very close to flipping back into the fourth spot in all of crypto. Um number three if you don't count USDT, which you guys know I don't like to count stable coins, but we're not just seeing this growth, you know, in the whale side.

[00:03:59]We're not just seeing this growth on on the midsize retail side. We're also seeing growth on the institutional side.

[00:04:06]In fact, this week has had some massive massive buy days. yesterday, uh, $18.52 million worth of XRP bought by institutional players. Back on Monday, $25.8 million worth of XRP bought by institutional players. This is now bringing us to the point that this week is currently currently the third largest week of 2026. And in fact, if if we get another day like this, it's probably going to be the largest week of this year. And that's while we're still having questions surrounding the US and Iran. While we just had a week that had two just it's a [ __ ] uh you know macro reports, right? So the large holders, they don't give a [ __ ] They're preparing for the future. And that's the thing I keep stressing. That's why I keep saying, like I mentioned in my H bar video today, that that retail is going to get burned if they're sidelining themselves because the big holders, they don't care. They don't care what's going on with the macro.

[00:05:05]That's why institutional positions are larger than when we entered the year um despite all the uncertainty. And that's why enterprise holdings are up as well.

[00:05:13]So that's all I have to say about that.

[00:05:16]But I love to see the progress being made. More updates to come. I appreciate you guys. Have a great day. Show your love below. Catch you guys in the next one. Take care.