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The XRP price plunged 6% in the last 24 hours to trade at $2.46 as of 4 a.m. EST on a 17% decrease in trading volume to $8.54 billion. The Ripple token price has been under heavy pressure since Friday, with crypto trader Ali on X telling his 160k followers that on-chain data shows whale investors have sold 2.23 billion XRP since then. 2.23 billion $XRP sold by whales since Friday! pic.twitter.com/H9HLAHdm1b — Ali (@ali_charts) October 14, 2025 That’s one of the largest outflows in months. The impact of these sales was immediate, with XRP’s price sliding from near $2.90. Losses have snowballed, with more than $10 billion wiped off XRP’s market capitalization in less than a week. XRP Price On-Chain Signals: Whales And The Battle for $2.30 On-chain data backs up these reports, showing that whales are consistently releasing XRP. Data from platforms like Santiment shows a sharp drop in whale holdings, just as XRP’s price briefly fell below $2 for the f...

The Ethereum Foundation — the non-profit organization dedicated to supporting Ethereum Ethereum (ETH) and related technologies — announced it had sold 1,700 ETH for USD Coin (USDC). According to an Oct. 9 tweet by blockchain data service Scopescan, the Ethereum Foundation just sold 1,700 ETH for about $2.76 million of the USDC stablecoin. Further data from Arkham Intelligence shows that the exchange was an Uniswap transaction. As of press time, CoinMarketCap data shows that Ethereum’s price fell by 0.56% over the last hour, 3.8% over the last 24 hours and 6.66% over the last seven days. While a clear causal link cannot be established the transaction was followed by a continuation of the recent fall of Ethereum’s price. You might also like: Grayscale files to convert $5b Ethereum fund into spot Ether ETF The transaction was met with alarm by some Twitter commentators and has been described as a bearish sign. On inspection, it is hard to think of a non-bearish rea...