XRP is trading in the $1.40 range, as on-chain data paints a picture that looks worse than the news headlines are saying. New daily addresses on the XRP Ledger have collapsed by over 80% from 18,000 in December 2024 to just 2,700. Yet institutions are quietly settling tokenized assets on public blockchains in real time.
. @Ripple network activity continues slowing down!
New wallet creation dropped from 18,000 per day in December 2024 to around 2,700 today.
Active $XRP supply also declined sharply during the same period. pic.twitter.com/hkOGsMmUXL
— CryptoBusy (@CryptoBusy) May 8, 2026
According to Glassnode data, monthly active supply dropped more than 70% from 7.45 billion XRP to roughly 2 billion XRP. Exchange reserves simultaneously hit historic lows at 12.9 billion XRP, suggesting holders are moving coins to self-custody and not to sell.
Whales have also accumulated 110 million tokens through March, even as retail participation faded. “The network is shifting from retail speculation only to institutional rails,” RedStone co-founder Marcin Kazmierczak notes. “That transition rarely looks pretty in the address chart.”
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