XRP Metrics Crash 65%… Is The Ledger Lounging or Lurking? Click!

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Picture, if you will, the bustling little bazaar that is the XRP Ledger, once teeming with merchants and money‑lovers, now reduced to a quiet whisper of activity. The numbers-those pesky crystals of truth that the analysts love to fuss over-have nosedived from a hearty 200,000 proactive users to a modest 38,000; a traffic‑jam of three‑quarters gone into oblivion. Even the pound‑for‑pound flow of payments has collapsed, from a dazzling 2.5 billion XRP to a dusty 80 million. As if that weren’t enough delight, the swarm of unique cost‑plus‑cents senders has shrunk from over 40,000 to a potted 3,000. In short, the ledger’s public face has slipped from the roaring roosters of commerce to a shivering sparrow’s whisper.

Now, idle speculation wants to know whether this is a rash collapse or merely a polite refusal by the ledger to expose its true workings to the eyes of the masses. Arthur, the wiry market commentator in question, has drawn the line in digital sand: on 18 February a shiny new feature-XLS‑81, a sop‑of‑the‑soul permissioned exchange for regulated bodies-was activated. Transactions now waltz through its private channels without attracting the public’s ever‑watchful gaze. The sudden veil of secrecy, Arthur muses, explains the drop. He further suggests that the mid‑summer surge, otherwise blamed on the maverick retail flows, may well be the result of silent, sophisticated institutional hopping.

Public XP View Falls Like a Lead Balloon

Arthur, in a social media scroll worthy of a silver‑tongued gourmand, notes stark differences: from over 200,000 now to a blink‑at 38,000; from 2.5 billion XRP now at a 80 million blink; from 40,000 senders to a squeaky 3,000. “Bad,” he dains, yet insists the figures surely hide the surplus of real demand lurking behind the curtain.

He hurls a jab at the dizzying price forecasts, like the frolicsome claim that XRP will cruise to $15 by March and $70 by May. “Liquidity & macro… matters more than the hedons of high‑boost tweets,” Arthur chokes.

Meanwhile, the price remains on a galloping descent. At $1.39, it’s slid roughly 2% in the last day, 5% in the last week, and a whopping 27% over the last month. Over the past year the coin has fallen by over 46%, leaving it a handy 60% under the July 2025 high of $3.65.

For contrast, Bitcoin takes a more leisurely stroll, the analysts’ pseudonym Darkfost noting that the market seems to have found itself in a kind of sideways waltz, with altcoins fretting about directionless ambition.

Darkfost further scoops that a whopping 31 million XRP slipped into Binance wallets in a single day, the ex‑hides and sighs of binatis suggest a writ‑up of $45 million in potential selling pressure if those coins, trudging through humility, decide to revisit the open market.

Loss Figures and Valuation Metrics: A Tale of Mixed Signals

Santiment, ever the contrarian narrator of this cryptocurrency saga, released a report that places the present loss spike in a grander context. XRP’s largest realised loss since 2022 is seen as a mounted galloping horse that dropped from around $3.60 to $1.10 earlier this month. Yet Santiment conspires not to predict a recurrence of the prior 114% price surge, noting it may have been a random flummox.

Comparatively, Santiment’s MVRV ratios (a metric that tells if holders are in profit or loss relative to their cost basis) rank the great Ethereum as the most undervalued major coin at -14.3%, followed by Bitcoin at -6.9%, and then our dear XRP at -4.1%. A slight, yet apparently potent, reminder that the ledger is far from lost; it has simply slipped into the shadows where the numerate “analysts” may not wish to peer.

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2026-02-23 22:12