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XRP Soars, But What’s Really Happening? Can Ripple Blast Past $10 This Year?
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August 26, 2026
XRP is trading at $1.41, down 2% over the past 24 hours in a mild pullback after one of the sharpest weekly moves in the top-10. The token is still up more than 45% over seven days, and the question everyone’s asking is whether this is the start of something bigger or just a leveraged bounce running out of road.
XRP gained 50% over the trailing week, outpacing every other major altcoin, with a 40% move over 30 days despite still sitting 20% down year-to-date. Analyst Ali Charts flagged a 650% spike in active addresses, from 47,180 to 356,070.

All the signs are pointing to a move that is typically associated with sharp participation surges and, historically, elevated volatility. Receiving addresses reportedly jumped by over 698%, and three consecutive days of record Bitwise XRP ETF volume indicate “real accumulation.”
Whale positioning tells a more nuanced story than the retail hype cycle suggests. Long positions that dipped after initial profit-taking are climbing again. This means that smart money that already booked gains and is now rebuying the dip in a pattern that usually precedes continuation, not collapse, provided macro conditions cooperate.
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Can XRP Hit $1.60 This Week?
At just above $1.40, XRP sits in a post-breakout consolidation zone. Technical structure points to resistance at $1.51, $1.53, $1.57, and $1.62, while support is layered at $1.31, $1.30, and a much stronger floor near $1.00. The 24-hour flatness-to-slight-decline pattern suggests traders are digesting the prior surge rather than reversing it outright.
The bull case comes if XRP closes above $1.51 on sustained ETF inflow volume, opening a run toward $1.62-plus, with some analyst models citing $2.50 upside if fresh catalysts emerge. Consolidation between $1.31 and $1.52 could also happen, but a break below $1.30 invalidates near-term bullish structure and puts the $1.00 zone back in play.
$10 this year would require roughly a 7x move, which is not impossible in crypto, but nothing in the current data (ETF flows, address growth, whale re-entry) points to a catalyst of that magnitude yet. Worth tracking, not betting the farm on.
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Maxi Doge Targets Early Mover Upside as Ripple Token Tests Key Levels
XRP holders riding this rally have reason to feel validated, as a 45% weekly gain is nothing to scoff at. But XRP’s $80 billion market cap means even a run to $2.50 is “only” a double.
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