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XRP is sitting exactly where the market’s patience is being tested the most with an undecided price forecast. Five major US spot XRP ETFs are collectively underwater by $746.1 million on a cost basis of approximately $1.7 billion, yet investors continued buying anyway.
SEC filings show Bitwise, Canary Capital, Franklin Templeton, 21Shares, and Grayscale recorded around $629.9 million in primary-market share creations against $309.1 million in redemptions through H1, leaving net capital flow positive by $320.8 million even as fair value dropped 44.1% below cost.
Bloomberg ETF analyst James Seyffart described the demand as “surprisingly resilient” in an Aug. 31 post, placing cumulative net inflows across the asset class at $1.8 billion.
That’s an unusual signal for a market typically averse to sitting on losses this large. Set against a scheduled 1 billion XRP escrow unlock and a broader risk-off tilt across altcoins, the paper-loss data forces a real question for anyone still on the sidelines: Does institutional conviction here mean something, or is it just sunk-cost stubbornness dressed up as strategy?
Price action has cooled from the late-August peak near $1.70, and XRP now sits in the mid-$1.30s after shedding roughly 8% on the week. The $1.34–$1.35 zone is the critical level, and a break below opens the door toward $1.25–$1.27, near the 61.8% Fibonacci retracement.
Supertrend support sits at $1.341, and short-term momentum remains soft. A reclaim of the $1.41 pivot flips the structure back bullish, with $1.47 and eventually $2 psychological targets back in play.
A choppy consolidation between $1.34 and $1.41 could also occur while the market digests the September 1 escrow release of 1 billion XRP. This is notably happening with a price near $1.43 this cycle versus roughly $1 during the prior unlock, a materially stronger setup.
Worst case is a clean break under $1.34 invalidates the August rally structure and drags price toward the mid-$1.20s. Watching the support test here matters more than chasing green candles.
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Holding through a $746.1 million paper loss takes conviction, or a fairly narrow definition of pain tolerance. Either way, XRP at this size isn’t handing out 50x moves anytime soon; the market cap is simply too large for that kind of asymmetric return. That’s the gap early-stage capital tends to chase instead.
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