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Since 2020, XRP has struggled to remain relevant and valuable to its investors. The US Securities and Exchange Commission’s attack on the project brought a drastic decline that no one expected. However, amid the ongoing case, XRP showed resilience, leading supporters to commend it as an asset to watch. Related Reading: Terra Classic (LUNC) Down 4% As Developer Accuses Terraport Of Rugpull Even though the price has seen some pullbacks and rallies, the trend aligns with the fluctuations in the overall crypto market due to environmental factors. But today, the global market cap is up by 0.06%. XRP surpassed the first five assets with a 2.33% price gain in 24 hours.  XRP Price Gains Even With Declining Network Activities  The current price outlook for XRP is positive. The controversial asset trades above its 50-day and 200-day simple moving averages.  XRP price is $0.4814, with a 2.33% increase in 24 hours. Its seven-day price gains also show an addition of 5.89% in the same time frame. The hourly price change is also green, and CoinMarketCap data indicates the asset recorded a price change of 2.87% since yesterday’s closing price of $0.4803.  The difference between XRP’s opening and closing price indicates an uptrend since April 28, and continuing today. There’s hope for more gains as it remains above its SMAs. However, the trading volume is declining by 48.86% in 24 hours. This indicates the traders’ uncertainty, given the upcoming summary judgment by Judge Torres.  XRP Technical Outlook The Simple Moving Average (SMA) indicator computes the closing price of XRP in the nearest days. Since XRP is trading above its 50-Day and 200-Day Simple Moving Average (SMA), there are strong bullish signals in the market in the coming days to weeks.  For the past 39 days, March 21, 2023, there have been persistent Buy signals from the 200-Day SMA, while the 50-Day Buy Signal occurred in the last two days, April 27. As such, the XRP price may experience more rallies, resulting in price volatility for the asset. On the other hand, the Relative Strength Index (RSI) value of XRP is 49.02 at the time of writing. Its upward movement shows that the indicator is gradually approaching the overbought region (above 70). Thus, there would be a possible price rise for short and long-term trades. Related Reading: Terra Classic Recent Efforts Could Benefit LUNC’s Growth Potential XRP’s Moving Average Convergence/Divergence (MACD) is below the signal line, confirming the asset’s current price drop. However, the faded histogram bar represents possible price growth in the nearest days.  The asset’s support levels are $0.3074, $0.3622, and $0.4105, while its resistance levels are $0.5527. XRP is trading below its $0.5527 resistance. If the bullish pressure continues, the asset could break through this resistance level. According to the abovementioned indicators, XRP has a promising price outlook for the coming days and could extend to weeks. Thus, expect more rallies. Featured image/Pexels and chart/TradingView

Ripple is a cryptocurrency firm that has been on the radar of United States regulators for years and its native token XRP has suffered greatly for it. However, despite the legal battle with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Ripple has not backed down and it looks like investors are increasingly bullish on the cryptocurrency. Ripple’s Q1 Report Exceeds Expectations In a Q1 report that was posted by Ripple titled ‘Q1 2023 XRP Markets Report’, there has been tremendous growth for the firm in the first three months of 2023. The first thing that stands out from this report is that Ripple has been experiencing rapid adoption during this time period. Related Reading: Bullish Momentum Expected For ARB As Arbitrum Completes DAO Airdrop At a time when other cryptocurrencies were seeing a decline in new users and adoption, the crypto firm reports that over 114,000 new wallets were added in the first quarter of 2023. Furthermore, the number of transactions for this time period also crossed 116 million. The decentralized exchange (DEX) volume for XRP also grew to over $114.5 million compared to the $85.7 million figure recorded in Q4 of 2022. However, transaction fees were higher compared to the previous quarter and its price did not perform as well, closing at an average price of $0.40 compared to $0.42 for Q4 2022. Ripple sees impressive growth in Q1 2023 | Source: ripple.com This rise in transaction fees, as well as the increased number of transactions, saw the total XRP burned for transaction fees reach 140,993 for Q1 2023 compared to 101,968 XRP for Q4 2022. Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) contributed greatly to this volume as the report notes that over 1.2 million NFTs have been minted since XLS-20 went live on mainnet. Thus, Ripple has emerged as a Top 10 chain for NFT trading volume as well. Community Turns Bullish On XRP The expectations of the XRP community have returned to bullish territory given the numbers published in the quarterly report. It has instilled a sense of confidence given that it shows rapid adoption for Ripple despite its troubles over the years. XRP price trending at $0.47 | Source: XRPUSD on TradingView.com XRP’s price has also responded positively with a 2.34% gain in the last 24 hours, data from Coinmarketcap shows. Its trading volume also saw a similar uptrend, rising 2.31% on the day to reach$1.67 billion at the time of this writing. Related Reading: Kaspa (KAS), Render (RNDR), Injective (INJ) See Upside Amid Market Crash, What’s Going On? The token’s current price of $0.47 puts it well above its 50-day and 100-day simple moving averages, making it bullish in the mid to long-term. However, its price is threatened in the short term after falling below its 20-day moving average. The digital asset is now seeing resistance at $0.48, making it the point to beat if bulls are to try to reach $0.5 once again. Follow Best Owie on Twitter for market insights, updates, and the occasional funny tweet… Featured image from iStock, chart from TradingView.com

Recently, XRP has been facing significant rejection at its overhead resistance level, including a rejection that occurred just a week ago. On the daily chart, XRP has shown a slight upward movement of 3%. However, over the past week, this altcoin has not made much progress as its price has decreased by 0.4%. This indicates that the XRP price is indecisive over longer time frames. The technical outlook for XRP suggests that the market is bearish. There is a low demand for the altcoin, and accumulation remained less too. However, if XRP manages to move above its overhead resistance, this could trigger a recovery. Related Reading: How Soon Will Litecoin Breach This Psychological Resistance Level? Currently, the BTC price is hovering below the $30,000 mark, and most altcoins have followed a similar trend. If BTC breaks through the $30,000 mark, XRP could attempt to move upwards. At its current level, the altcoin is at a crucial point, as an increase in demand could cause a rally, while a decrease in price could result in a loss of up to 16% of its value. Furthermore, the market capitalization of XRP has decreased, indicating an increase in the number of sellers. XRP Price Analysis: One-Day Chart The altcoin was trading for $0.47 at the time of writing. It is trading underneath its overhead resistance of $0.48. The aforementioned resistance mark is crucial as it has served as a price ceiling previously. A break above the $0,.48 mark can push XRP to $0.50, which might act as another ceiling before the altcoin targets $0.53. A move to $0.53 means over a 10% rally. On the flip side, a fall from the current price level will drag XRP to $0.44 and then to $0.40, thereby bringing bearish influence back. The amount of altcoin traded in the last session was red, indicating a fall in demand. Technical Analysis Since the altcoin dropped below the $0.50 level, demand for the altcoin has failed to recover. The Relative Strength Index (RSI) indicates that selling strength outweighs buying strength, as the RSI is below the half-line. Additionally, the altcoin remains below the 20-Simple Moving Average (SMA) line, which signifies that sellers have control and are driving the price momentum in the market. However, if demand for XRP increases slightly, it could push the coin above the 20-SMA line. This would signal a return of bullish strength on the chart. In line with other indicators, the altcoin is displaying sell signals. The Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD), which indicates price momentum, has formed red histograms, signalling to sell. Related Reading: Ethereum Shark & Whale Addresses Up 5.7% Over Past Year: Santiment Furthermore, the Bollinger Bands, which portray price volatility and fluctuation, have opened up. This suggests that the coin may experience significant price fluctuations over the next few trading sessions. Featured Image From UnSplash, Charts From TradingView.com

XRP is looking extremely bullish on a short-term outlook. In the long game, the timeframe charts show an incredible selling opportunity in the next three months. XRP looking bullish from a short-term perspective Price mid-point of $0.36 is now poised as both key resistance and support zones Ripple to target $1 next However, XRP bulls may need to wait a little longer for a breach to take effect. In June, the crypto was seen to breach the support key of $0.39. Since the support zone was breached, this same level was also poised as the key resistance. XRP price was also spotted to form a range from $0.3 to $0.41, with the mid-point set at $0.36 which acted as both the resistance and support zones. Related Reading: How Litecoin (LTC) Is Able To Muster A 5-Day Straight Rally Chart from TradingView.com XRP Bulls Losing Aggressiveness? In August, XRP is seen to try to breach the $0.39 level for two weeks. However, the bulls are running out of steam sending the price crashing down under the range’s mid-point. The price dropped further down to the $0.30 level after a couple of days. According to CoinMarketCap, XRP price has nosedived by 0.12 % or trading at $0.3558 as of this writing. Technical indicators for the token demonstrate a sudden twist in bearish foreplay. RSI has surged past 50 and hoisted it to act as support showing a strong uptick that could linger for the next couple of days. More so, the Accumulation/Distribution (A/D) line was able to breach the key resistance level spotted in May which is a very critical development so far. But, such development may not validate further progress above the $0.39 level. On the flip side, this would indicate that a breach is a possibility and could happen in a couple of weeks. XRP’s Chaikin Money Flow (CMF) also climbed, surpassing +0.08 showing remarkable buying activity. Spike In XRP Demand Shows Bullish Stance The sudden surge in the crypto’s demand indicates that the bulls may have taken the driver’s seat. However, a breach that would rip off the key resistance may take some time to happen. Beyond the SEC issues, the challenge is breaching the resistance line that has been rock-solid since May 2021.  XRP has tested and failed this resistance zone many times but it’s dead-set to retest it again. Flipping the resistance zone will definitely help hoist XRP to target $1 next. Related Reading: Avalanche Outmatches Top Cryptos As AVAX Posts 11% Rally In Last 7 Days XRP total market cap at $17.2 billion on the daily chart | Source: TradingView.com Featured image from Cryptocoin Spy, Chart from TradingView.com

Despite the recent sluggishness of XRP, the token is performing significantly better compared to other coins. The bulls successfully defended the $0.3 support and tried to reverse the trend by breaching above the crucial resistance.
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The crypto community got a major surprise two years ago when a leading provider of crypto solutions for businesses was slapped with a lawsuit by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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XRP has been hovering within a price range over the past few days. Over the last 24 hours, the coin attempted to move slightly on the upside. The market movers also noted slight uptick on their charts after the Federal Reserve raised interest rates by 75-basis points. Technical outlook for XRP continues to paint bearish picture for the coin. The altcoin could soon attempt to move near its next support zone. Price of XRP has just managed to remain above the $0.30 mark. Immediate fall will push the coin to trade near the $0.24 price level. Sellers are still in panic mode as the asset continues to hover near the extreme selling zone on the chart. Bulls have tired out as choppiness has taken over the market, XRP over the last two days flashed an increase in buying strength but as the coin fell in value again, sellers have taken over. The global cryptocurrency market cap today is at $941 Billion with a fall of 0.5% in the last 24 hours. XRP Price Analysis: One Day Chart The altcoin was at $0.31 at the time of writing. It seems to have found its support at the $0.24 price level. After consolidating between $0.40 and $0.30 levels respectively, its looks as though further downside could be on the charts. Overhead resistance could be pointed at $0.38 as the coin has struggled to move past that aforementioned level lately. In the last week itself, XRP slumped by 22%. At the moment, the altcoin has fallen by 90% from its all time high value of $3.40. Price of XRP last touched these lows in the month of February 2021. Trading volume displayed an increase signifying a sell-off. The bar was in the red which is a signal of bearish price action prevailing in the market. Technical Analysis The asset has touched the oversold region a couple of times both in the month of May and June. Over the last 48 hours, XRP tried recovering from the undervalued zone but again noted a fall in buying strength. In conformity with the same, Relative Strength Index displayed a downtick and was moving close to the 20-mark. Continued selling pressure can again make XRP fall to the oversold region. Directional Movement Index determines the direction of price change and the current price momentum. DMI was negative as the -DI line was above the +DI line. ADX (Red) was steady above 40, which signified strength in the current price momentum. This meant that XRP could move further south. Related Reading | XRP Consolidates, Is It Going To Retrace Now? Bollinger Bands indicate price volatility or incoming price fluctuations in the market. In the above chart, Bollinger Bands opened up which is a sign of increased price volatility. Going by the other indicators that point towards bearishness, the opening up of the bands can also mean a further depreciation of price in the near term. Awesome Oscillator displayed change in price trend and flashed red signal bars. These red signal bars are linked to sell signal for the asset. Going by the charts, Ripple might stay near the $0.30 price level a little longer before the buyers cause the price to move upwards. Related Reading | Bitcoin Amidst Relentless Sell Off; Is It Targeting $13,000 Now? Featured image from UnSplash, chart from TradingView.com

XRP among other leading altcoins have been consolidating on its chart. Bitcoin slid below the $30,000 price level which has dampened the price action of altcoins. Over the last 24 hours, XRP made no price movement. In the last 24 hours, the altcoin gained a minor 2.4%. On the chart, the coin displayed bearish price action as the coin might be breaking the consolidation. The coin currently has found support at $0.34. The coin last touched the price level in the month of February 2021. If the coin pushes below further then it may touch the support level of $0.28. The global cryptocurrency market cap today was at $1.28 Trillion with a 0.7% positive change in the past 24 hours. If bulls still continue to struggle to break past the $0.43 resistance level then the coin is headed for another downslide. XRP Price Analysis: One Day Chart The coin was trading at $0.38 at the time of writing. The local support level for the coin stood at $0.33. If the coin continues to experience selling pressure then it could fall to a low of $0.28. Overhead resistance for the coin stood at $0.40. For the bulls to be back, XRP needs to break past the aforementioned price resistance and trade near $0.43. The volume of XRP traded had plummeted as seen on the one day chart. The volume bar was seen in the red which showed bearish significance in the market. Technical Analysis The buying strength tried to rise on the chart. After the coin was oversold it recovered slightly as seen on the Relative Strength Index. At the time of writing, the RSI was above the oversold zone, despite the same selling pressure was strong in the market. The price of XRP was struggling to move over the 20-SMA line. At press time the coin was still below the 20-SMA signifying that bears were driving the price momentum in the market. In case the demand for the coin shows up, the coin can move above the 20-SMA line which could push XRP to trade near $0.40 price mark. Related Reading | Arthur Hayes Says Ethereum (ETH) Could Reach $10K Level By The End Of Year XRP could soon bottom out and then aim for the next resistance level. The coin displayed a buy signal on the chart. The Awesome Oscillator depicts the price momentum and it displayed a change in price momentum. The green signal bars on the AO are synonymous to a buy signal which can also mean a change in the price action. The Directional Movement Index was positive which corresponded with the AO. The +DI was above the -DI line indicated bullish build-up. The Average Directional Index was also above the 40 mark and that is a mark of price trend strengthening in the market. Related Reading | Polkadot At $9.30, But Is There A Chance Of Slight Shift In Trend?

The total supply of XRP circulating in the market is now at 48.3 billion from the total XRP supply of 100 billion. XRP whales currently hold from 1 million to 10 million XRPs and are on a massive hoarding spree with an uptick in supply stretching out t…

Ripple (XRP) has plummeted to $0.43, with bears now skyjacking the market following a tremendous drop in the past week.
While the price seems to have improved in the past couple of days, the bulls have somewhat shoved bears to their current market mov…

Following the massive dump in the past week, Ripple price regains its stance on a long trend. Moreover, bulls must tower the bears in this current market momentum. Last week wasn’t a good trading week for Ripple buyers, as the XRP token recorded a massive 42% loss. As a result, the week closed below $0.4255. Notably, the entire week had the token’s price steadily following a huge bearish trend, declining to $0.4018 before climbing back to $0.4123 and terminating there for the week. Notably, most indicators have been engrossed in the oversold zone, implying the possibility of a temporary uptrend. However, the token’s price must create a higher low and higher high to validate this momentum reversal. This also means that the bulls must push XRP’s price up to $0.65 before it can create form a bullish trend. What Are The Odds? Due to the massive decline, one can only expect the XRP token to record a bullish momentum, or bullish mean reversal, temporarily. On the other hand, we can expect it to be short-term, given the present market structure. The technical oscillator’s value shows that the token tested the all-time-low (ATL) in the hourly, daily, and weekly charts. Related Reading | More Stress For El Salvador As Bitcoin Dips To $29,000 It’s also worthy to note that the token’s price is still trading below the 50-day & 100-day Exponential Moving Average (EMA). Thus, a rejuvenated buying pressure would force the price to reach the 50-day Exponential Moving Average before testing the psychological $0.50 mark. On the other hand, a decline in the bearish momentum would cause the coin to continue in a steady decline or downtrend. Should XRP break below the current session’s low value, it’d test Friday’s low at $0.40. Technical Indicators Moving Average Convergence Divergence: The MACD trades underneath the midline with steadily growing bullish momentum. Relative Strength Index: The RSI hovers close to the average line, having no stated directional bias. A Brief On Ripple? Ripple is an innovative crypto project that functions very interestingly as a cryptocurrency and a payment gateway. Created by the Ripple Labs, the Ripple crypto project enables users to facilitate payments, cryptocurrency lending, and other financial platforms. While Ripple enables worldwide payments, the XRP token allows users to swap between cryptocurrencies. Related Reading | Exchange Inflows Rock Bitcoin, Ethereum As Market Struggles To Recover Notably, Ripple was established in 2012 by Chris Larsen together with Jed McCaleb. Four years after then, the company purchased BitLicense from New York State to increase the integrity of its XRP token. However, following the global cryptocurrency crackdown, Ripple dropped by over 21% and struggled within that zone for a long time. Featured image from Pexels, chart from TradingView.com

XRP price shoots 6% over the past 24 hours despite suffering a slump of 28% on April 16. The crypto was able to bounce back on May 1 and get stronger by the day with a surge of 12%.
XRP is set on its road to recovery in the coming weeks.
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Executives of Ripple Labs and the US Securities and Exchange Commission have agreed to prolong the timeline of their lawsuit and postpone court proceedings until the end of 2022, implying that their legal standoff would likely last well into next year….

In an interview with CNBC, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse revealed to feels optimistic about the company’s future and its legal battle. The payment solution company was sued by the U.S. Securities And Exchange Commission (SEC) in 2019 for the alleged illegal sales of a security, XRP. Related Reading | Price Analysis: Where’s XRP Headed After Ripple’s Big Win Initially, the battle was expected to be an easy win for the regulators. This had a negative impact on the price of XRP, the cryptocurrency that powers the XRP Ledger, and some of the products from the payment company. However, Ripple has been using its resources and appears to be turning the table in its favor. In court, the payment solution company has presented evidence that claims the SEC was made aware of XRP, and Ripple’s business model with the cryptocurrency using a product called Ripple Network. The evidence goes as back as 2013 and includes documents that suggest the SEC failed to provide clarity over the digital asset’s classification as a security. According to legal experts, the evidence could demonstrate to the court that Ripple was actively seeking to remain compliant with U.S. securities law. In that sense, Garlinghouse told CNBC the following on his perception of the status of the case: The lawsuit has gone exceedingly well, and much better than I could have hoped when it began about 15 months ago. But the wheels of justice move slowly. Other evidence has come to light that could continue to favor Ripple. As highlighted by CNBC, the judge handling the case ruled against the SEC editing emails about how it has treated XRP and other cryptocurrencies, including Ethereum. The second crypto by market cap, there are currently no standing cases against it as it is not deemed a security. If Ripple can successfully argue that XRP and ETH operate as decentralized cryptocurrencies, could score a win in its legal pursuit. Ripple Touched Bottom, Only Up From Here? Despite the legal battle, Ripple has not seen a slowdown in its operations. According to its CEO, the company is “already operating in the worst-case scenario”, but registers “record growth” outside of the United States. On the other hand, the XRP token records a 7% profit in the last 24-hours potentially as a reaction to Garlinghouse’s statements. The market seems to be positively pricing any development around the legal case with the SEC, but the macro-economic outlook still seems unfavorable for risk-on assets. On higher timeframes, the token still trends to the downside far from its $2 high in 2021. A positive conclusion of the case could send XRP to those highs. Related Reading | Ripple Vs. SEC: XRP Showing Strength In The Legal Fight As New Evidence Arises Garlinghouse added the following on the importance of Ripple’s case for the crypto industry: This case is important, not just for Ripple; it’s important for the entire crypto industry in the United States. It would really be negative for crypto in the United States (…). If you determine XRP as a security of Ripple, we have to know every person that owns XRP. That’s an SEC requirement. You have to know all of your shareholders. It’s not possible.

Ripple’s latest victory pushed XRP on the bullish trajectory in the past 24 hours. The federal judge ruled that Ripple could push for fair notice as it is completely entitled to do so. This meant that Ripple’s central arguments against the U.S Securities and Exchange were validated by the court in the ruling against SEC’s motion. Judge Analisa Torres, denied SEC’s motion to stop Ripple from using the “Fair Notice Defense”. Ripple for the longest time had expressed concerns over the same by stating that SEC hadn’t given them enough notice that it considered XRP to be a security. Following this news, XRP was northbound and attempted to topple over its immediate resistance of a $0.76 price level. In the last 24 hours, XRP registered near about 15% gain and it traded close to $0.84. Currently, XRP is sideways on its charts displaying range-bound price action at the time of writing. In the past week, however, XRP continued to make gains as the coin appreciated by 6%. Related Reading | Dogecoin Spikes 10% After Elon Musk Reveals He’s Not Selling XRP Price Analysis: Four Hour Chart XRP was trading for $0.76 at the time of writing. The coin despite a massive boom in prices had dipped slightly over the last 24 hours. It lost around 2.2% of its value over the past day. The coin was seen moving sideways over the immediate past trading sessions. Overhead resistance for the coin stood at $0.80, the coin despite noting a slight fall managed to remain above its $0.76 mark. The aforementioned price resistance has been a long-standing one for the coin. On the flip side, the support region for XRP stretched from $0.74-$0.71. In case XRP again surges and manages to cross the $0.80 price mark, the coin could witness stiff resistance at $0.85. XRP hasn’t gotten past that point in over a month. From the technical outlook, it seems as though the bears have not given up their momentum completely and continued pressure from sellers could cause XRP to break below its immediate support level. Technical Indicators Trading Volume also noted a significant decrease in the last 24 hours. According to the four-hour chart, the volume of the token traded was much lower compared to the previous trading session. On the brighter side, the bar closed in the green which meant that buyers could be resurfacing soon. It is however not enough to conclude if XRP was regaining strength. On the 20-SMA, prices were spotted below the 20-SMA line. This reading signifies that sellers have gathered momentum and the price movement is being dictated by the sellers. The Relative Strength Index was in accordance with the other indicators, the indicator was seen below the half-line. This marked bearish pressure as selling strength preceded buying strength in the market. The MACD indicator is known to determine the current price momentum. The indicator noted a bearish crossover followed by the presence of red histograms at the time of writing. MACD crossed below its zero-line, which is a sign of bearish pressure. Related Article | Bitcoin Hashrate Swells 15% Since Last Week As Analysts Expect Mining Difficulty To Increase

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The returns on Ripple were promising in the past decade, but it largely missed out on significant crypto gains. However, it did succeed during the early parts of last year until April, when its value grew significantly higher than before, only to be replaced by other cryptocurrencies later in autumn, which had much better performances throughout that period. XRP has been making lower highs since 2017, and the price is bearish. Other cryptocurrencies continued to make record highs until November 2021, but XRP’s price had grown slowly. During last month’s dip, XRP had slipped below $1, falling to $0.55. It met SMA200 (purple) on weekly charts, which provided support for a second time; then started bouncing higher again in January this year. Related Reading | Representing Lawyer of XRP Holders Predict SEC’s Next Move As Ripple Price Hikes XRP/USD is climbing higher, but buyers haven’t been able to push the price above 50 weeks SMA (yellow), which stands at $1.9 and acts as resistance in the top level for now; however, a jump from 055 did show some bullish signs since they gained around 60%. A week later, markets turned bearish again overall, but XRP holding onto its gains indicates that there could be more upsides left within rangebound periods. XRP Fight Against SEC The main reason XRP is falling behind the rest of the crypto market has been a legal battle that started more than one year ago, when SEC opened their case against Ripple, claiming it’s an investment contract. Everyone following this lawsuit will determine how blockchain technology should develop in America for future generations. Ripple has faced many challenges in its lawsuit against the SEC. One recent twist was that judge Analisa Torres granted them permission to respond, which they did with fair notice of defense earlier this month. Analysts Reviews On Ripple Fate The end may be near for this case, which would mean greater appreciation in XRP’s price. Related Reading | Bitcoin Plunges Below $40 As Russia Has Reportedly Given Its Forces Order To Attack Ukraine James Wo, founder, and CEO of  DFG said in an email to CoinDesk; We’ve seen in tech history that no matter the result of the trial, verdict or closed-door agreement, supporters regularly see the ending of a legal battle as a bullish sign. This increase could be the beginning of a bullish period for XRP if indeed the long-lasting trial comes to an end in the upcoming months. Some people predict that XRP will lose favor among investors because there is now a newer, more popular payment token in the market. Another statement by Vladimir Gorbunov, CEO of Crypterium, explains; Ripple’s outlook remains questionable because market conditions have changed dramatically over the past few years. A large number of companies making similar solutions to Ripple. However, Ripple is the most popular service in the segment of interbank transactions. Featured image from Pixabay, chart from TradingView.com

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Today’s Ripple price analysis is rather cloudy, and analysts are expecting the market to reverse course near the $0.90 level.
After being dragged down from recent highs, the XRP/USD pair may be on the verge of a new bottom.
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Ripple, a Fintech company, makes substantial headway in its legal fight with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The XRP (the world’s seventh-largest cryptocurrency) issue will be resolved soon, according to CEO Brad Garlinghouse, who is…

The past few days may have weakened the image of Solana (SOL). High levels of network congestion brought a new outage to the network and SOL fell the hardest amongst the top 20 cryptocurrencies amidst the market crash. Here’s What Happened Last week, it was reported that Solana’s network was clogged, resulting in many failing transactions and DeFi users not being able to adjust their collateral positions to reflect the new valuation of the coin amidst the crypto market fall. In a Solana blog post, the team explained that the incident experienced by validators was due to excessive duplicate transactions sent by bots and “related to issues previously identified that engineers have been working to improve and resolve”. This is not the first outage for the Solana network. The 18-hour network outage in September 2021 caused by heavy transaction traffic remains the harshest one. And just this month, this has been the second, following an outage on January 4. Related Reading | Algorand, Solana, And More Lead List Of Biggest Losing Altcoins Liquidated Solana Users The DeFi lending protocol built on Solana, Solend, stated that the market crash “caused many accounts to become liquidatable and created many profitable arbitrage opportunities.” SOL price dramatically plummeted as the whole crypto market tumbled, thus users with collateral needed to increase their position in order to not have their assets liquidated. Position liquidators receive a bounty from liquidated positions, so when scenarios like this happen they “race to close eligible positions”, as Laine the blockchain business that operates validators on Solana explained. This is the reason behind bots, created to help liquidators win the race, but for this, “they submit the same transaction dozens or hundreds of times”. This turns into a mass of duplicated transactions that need to be verified by validators. There was a massive quantity of attempts by Solend users trying to deposit and repay to avoid liquidations, but all they met was network congestion. “This large load caused validators to falter, especially since they were not filtering out duplicate transactions optimally, wasting precious compute. The thousands of duplicate bot transactions also drowned out legitimate user transactions.” Solend further stated, “In addition, there was some erroneous volatility on the Pyth price feed, which caused wrongful liquidations (e.g. some users supplying mSOL and borrowing SOL were liquidated due to prices moving out of sync).” Solend later announced that they are working to reconcile problems encountered by users. The platform will “Reimburse 100% of the penalty for users liquidated due to abnormal volatility on the SOL feed” and “Reimburse 50% of the penalty for other liquidations.” SOL Price Tanked SOL is now down 42% in the last week and decreased dramatically from $144 on early Thursday to around $80 on Monday. It has now recovered slightly to $92,42 at the time of writing. Consequently, SOL lost its position as the 7th-largest coin to XRP, and overall saw the deepest pool of blood among the top 20 cryptocurrencies, with many users left wondering if their network is worth the risk. Related Reading | Solana Could Flip Ethereum To Become “Visa Of Crypto,” New Study By Bank Of America Shows What’s Next For SOL? Solana released the v1.8.14 update to “mitigate the worst effects of this issue” and alleged that “engineers have been working to improve and resolve” the issues related to network congestion starting with the 1.8 release. More updates to implement v1.9 are expected over the following 8 to 12 weeks. “These forthcoming releases are aimed at improving the state of the network, with more improvements expected to roll out in the next 8-12 weeks. Many of these features are currently live on Testnet, where they are being rigorously tested.” Many users didn’t find relief in the answers from the Solana-supporter CEOs and its co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko and called them out for allegedly doing false claims and dishonest wordplay. The network might be in a key point for its future growth. The new updates need to scale with the demand and provide trust to the disappointed users.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) made a surprise attack on the Ripple case by filing a letter of supplemental authority to strike Ripple’s “fair notice” defense. Simultaneously, the token XRP is down 2.33% in the last 24 hours to $0.7 following the market’s downtrend. The SEC’s Surprise Move As the popular SEC vs. Ripple case is expected to be resolved around April this year, the SEC has made a new move that left many wondering if previous expectations could change. The American regulator is using a winning move from another case to strike at Ripple’s key arguments. The SEC had taken John M Fife and five entities controlled by him to court in September 2020 for selling $21 billion of penny stocks and gaining a profit of $61 billion without registering as security dealers. FIFE’s defense adopted an argument similar to Ripple’s, alleging the SEC hadn’t given them a fair warning and the term “dealer” can be widely interpreted. Last month, the court denied this argument. What Does It Mean For The Ripple Case? Naturally, the regulator now aimed to use this denial to strike at Ripple’s “fair notice” key defense. Similarly, Ripple’s “fair notice” defense alleges the regulator failed to notify them about a possible violation of federal securities laws and claimed the term “investment contract” is being misused by the SEC, adding that “The SEC’s theory, that XRP is an investment contract, is wrong on the facts, the law and the equities.” No foreign regulator has determined that XRP is a security. In fact just the opposite is true. The U.S. would be the unfortunate outlier. The SEC is using the FIFE case latest outcome to insist that the term “investment contract” is bound by legal parameters since 1946: In Ripple’s case, binding authority construing the term “investment contract” has existed since 1946. W.J. Howey Co., 328 U.S. at 298–99. Thus, Fife provides additional authority for striking Ripple’s fourth affirmative defense. However, the cases have distinct terms. The attorney Jeremy Hogan explained via Twitter that the FIFE case outcome “marginally helps the SEC’s position in its Motion to Strike Ripple’s Fair Notice Defense so the SEC filed it with the court.” Although the SEC is trying to make a move out of the similarities from both cases, Hogan claims that FIFE’s “was in a very different stage of litigation and the standard is completely different than the SEC v. Ripple case. In the “Fife” case, the Defendant tried to argue “Fair Notice” in order to dismiss the lawsuit entirely (and failed) because the burden is very high on a party moving to strike a pleading. In the Ripple case, it’s the SEC that is trying to strike the affirmative defense of Fair Notice and it has the high burden to meet.   Ripple CEO Brad Garlighouse had remained hopeful at the end of 2021 as he expressed to CNBC: Clearly we’re seeing good questions asked by the judge. And I think the judge realizes this is not just about Ripple, this will have broader implications. Related Reading | XRP Builds Momentum With 7% Increase As Ripple Launches New ODL Partnership The Impact On XRP Related Reading | Ripple Had Its Strongest Year Ever Despite The Sec’s “Attack On Crypto” The next hearing will be a key day for the outcome of the Ripple case, thus XRP’s price. The timing is rather complicated for XRP. Its downtrend seems to follow the general crypto market movement. XRP is down 2.33% in the last 24 hours to $0,7634 as it shows in the next chart:     After the SEC filed the lawsuit against Ripple in December 2002, the XRP price plunged dramatically from $0.60 to $0.1748. It continued to drop and lose ground but remains inside the top 10 crypto Ranking. Then, XRP recovered throughout 2021 and reached highs of $1.34 on November 10, 2021, although it didn’t manage to close the year above $1.01. The XRP enthusiasts’ expectations are for Ripple to win the case and XRP to enter a massive rally, surging to its all-time high of $3.4 or even double numbers. However, the previous projections hadn’t taken into account the current crypto market downtrend. And if the Ripple case were to have a surprisingly negative resolution, XRP might see an outcome just as sad.

Ripple Labs managed to stay strong in 2021 despite the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)’s “attack on crypto”, AKA the lawsuit against Ripple and its executives. Now the payments solutions company celebrates its “strongest year ever”. Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse announced the achievements and had some comments to share about the SEC’s case. Ripple’s first On-Demand Liquidity (ODL) was launched earlier this year during 2021’s Q3. It is a payments solution that “allows customers to instantly move money around the world at any time”. This service first appeared as a corridor between Japan and the Philippines that leveraged the token XRP. They have recently announced Ripple’s first ODL deployment in the Middle East as well. Related Reading | Ripple Announces New Payment Corridor in Japan As XRP Rallies 23.5%, More Profits Ahead? Now, a Ripple report shows that the XRP-based On-Demand Liquidity payments accounted for 25% of the total dollar volume across RippleNet. Garlinghouse celebrated the results and added that the ODL tokens are up 25x from Q3 2020, and 130% quarter over quarter. “All of this growth came from outside the US for (sigh) obvious reasons” tweeted Garlinghouse. Related Reading | Ripple Partners With Republic Of Palau To Develop National Digital Currency The report notes that Ripple’s ODL users have access to over 20 countries “for their payment needs”, and transactions over the Ripple network have more than doubled since Q3 2020. Ripple made sure to mention the effects of regulatory uncertainty, noting that their U.S. ODL flows were “essentially halted”. However, “international ODL volume has continued to surge”. ODL is thriving in regulatory jurisdictions that embrace innovation and understand that crypto is critical to creating a more inclusive, equitable and efficient global financial system. CEO Brad Garlinghouse Slams At The SEC SEC Chairman Gary Gensler is famous in the crypto world, but not for good reasons. Since filing the case against Ripple and its two executives a year ago, many have feared the possibility of falling subject to enforcement actions. Gesler has repeatedly called crypto the “Wild West of our financial system,” and Brad Garlinghouse doesn’t agree –nor does the community.   The Ripple CEO stated that “Calling crypto the “Wild West” is a farce” noting that Gary Gensler “has taken an aggressively anti-crypto approach”, which he claims is making companies move outside the U.S. He pointed out that “Web2 was built with many American companies” and suggested that Web3 might not be given the same fair chance. Garlinghouse claims that most crypto-related companies “are complying with financial regulators globally” and added that “This industry shouldn’t be punished for asking for regulatory clarity & regulation that is consistently applied with a level playing field.” Garlinghouse referred to the SEC’s lack of clarity refusing to answer questions about the legal status of Ethereum and questioned: “Is the agency actually living up to its mission of protecting investors w/ regulation by enforcement & what Hester Peirce calls “strategic ambiguity”?” 2021 has been a watershed year for crypto. Acceptance and awareness of the opportunity to bring billions of people into the global financial community has never been so clear. It’s been incredible to see a lot less ‘maximalism’, and many more builders joining the industry.