The XRP price is facing renewed selling pressure even as Ripple announces another move toward deeper institutional integration with the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem.
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The token is trading near $1.42, down more than 10% in the past 24 hours, as market participants focus less on business developments and more on weakening technical and on-chain signals. The difference shows a familiar pattern in the markets; positive infrastructure news does not always translate into price support.
The latest decline accelerated after XRP fell below $1.60, a level that had previously served as short-term support. Once that bottom broke, automated sell and stop-loss orders appear to have intensified the move, pushing prices closer to levels not seen since the last broader market pullback.
XRP's price trends to the downside on the daily chart. Source: XRPUSD on Tradingview
XRP Price Drops as Major Support Breaks
Technical indicators suggest the sell-off was sharp. The Relative Strength Index is approaching oversold territory, reflecting strong downward momentum rather than a slow decline. Trading volumes have also increased during the decline, a sign that sellers are trading with conviction rather than hesitation.
Data about the chain contribute to the cautious outlook. Recent statistics show a decrease network activity and limited evidence of continued accumulation at current levels. In previous corrections, the XRP price often stabilized as portfolio activity and number of transactions began to increase.
If the price fails to regain $1.60, analysts are increasingly pointing to the psychological $1.00 level as the next area to watch. While oversold conditions can sometimes trigger a short-term rebound, the broader structure suggests that XRP remains vulnerable unless sentiment improves.
Ripple’s Hyperliquid integration fails to improve XRP
The price weakness comes despite Ripple’s announcement that its institutional prime brokerage arm, Ripple Primehas added support for Hyperliquid, a decentralized derivatives platform.
The integration allows institutional clients to access on-chain perpetual futures while cross-linking those positions with assets such as foreign exchange, fixed income and other digital assets through a single account.
The market reaction was mixed. While this move underlines Ripple’s commitment to bridging traditional finance and DeFi, it does not directly create a new demand driver for XRP itself. Some investors had hoped that Ripple would prioritize deeper integration of the XRP Ledger.
Divergent signals across the market
Elsewhere the contrast is clear. Hyperliquid’s native token, HYPE, has shown relative strength following the integration news, trading above major moving averages even as the broader market weakens.
That difference suggests that capital is flowing to platforms tied to institutional trading activity, rather than to legacy large-cap tokens that are experiencing technical glitches.
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For now, XRP’s trajectory appears to be determined more by market structure and on-chain signals than by Ripple’s growing institutional footprint. Until buyers act decisively, the risk of a deeper XRP price towards $1.00 remains on the table.
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