XRP Soaks Up Whale Selling While Its Ledger Steals The RWA Spotlight

XRP (XRP) held near $1.15 this week even as whales sold more than 30 million tokens, while its ledger drew $1.9 billion into tokenized real-world assets.

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XRP Holds $1.15 As Whales Trim Stakes

The token changed hands near $1.15 to close the week, holding a level it has tested again and again through a punishing stretch of distribution and a broad crypto pullback. On-chain trackers flagged more than 30 million XRP distributed by large holders inside five days, with the worst of it landing as a brief push toward $1.28 stalled and reversed. A hawkish turn from new Federal Reserve chair Kevin Warsh, who cooled hopes of a rate cut, handed the bears their opening.

The range has bent without breaking.

Buyers kept stepping in near $1.13, soaking up the offloaded coins even as one midweek selling burst ran roughly 170 percent above the daily average before the close. Underneath the churn, wallets holding at least a million XRP still control about 74 percent of the supply, having added more than 1.5 billion tokens over six months.

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XRPL RWA Inflows Outpace Ethereum

Away from the price chop, the ledger has pulled ahead in tokenized real-world assets. The network topped every rival over the past 90 days, gathering $1.9 billion in net inflows and beating Ethereum (ETH)'s $1.6 billion and Stellar (XLM)'s $1.4 billion. Analysts read the run as deliberate institutional execution by funds and issuers, not scattered retail flow.

The pace reshapes a chain long defined by cross-border payments. Ethereum still anchors about 53 percent of all tokenized value and roughly $17 billion in assets, so the lead reflects the speed of fresh money rather than the size of the overall pile.

Spot XRP products logged their strongest month of 2026 in May, gathering more than $118 million in an acceleration from April, while cumulative inflows have pushed past $1.4 billion since their late-2025 debut.

XRP's month has been a round trip. The token sank toward $1.10 on Jun. 11, rebounded about 13 percent to near $1.28 as US-Iran tensions cooled, then surrendered the gains once whales resumed selling. Even after the bounce, it sits down by roughly half from a January peak above $2.30.

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