XRP price failed to clear the $1.50-$1.60 resistance zone last week, exactly the area we said buyers needed to reclaim before a more convincing move higher could develop. Instead, XRP moved l
XRP price failed to clear the $1.50-$1.60 resistance zone last week, exactly the area we said buyers needed to reclaim before a more convincing move higher could develop.
Instead, XRP moved lower with the broader crypto market and is now trading around $1.39.
The latest two-hour chart shows that the token has stabilized after a steep drop toward $1.32, but momentum is still weak and price remains below several important resistance levels.
Over the past seven days, XRP traded close to $1.50 before the market-wide sell-off accelerated.
The decline took price below $1.45 and $1.40 before XRP briefly touched roughly $1.318.
That level produced a strong reaction, but the recovery has stalled around $1.40.
The current structure leaves several clear levels to watch:
Level Importance $1.31-$1.33 Major short-term support $1.36-$1.38 Immediate support $1.40-$1.42 First resistance $1.45 Important recovery level $1.50-$1.52 Major resistance $1.60 Larger bullish confirmation zoneThe $1.40-$1.42 region is the first barrier bulls need to reclaim.
A move above $1.45 would improve the setup further, but XRP still needs to recover the $1.50-$1.52 area before the chart begins to look materially stronger.
Source: CoinAnk
On the downside, losing $1.36 would put $1.33 back in focus.
A clean break below $1.31 could expose the $1.25 area.
The short-term momentum indicators are not giving bulls much confidence yet.
RSI readings are around 40.4, 45.0 and 44.2.
That keeps all three below the neutral 50 level.
This means XRP has recovered from deeply oversold conditions, but momentum has not yet turned bullish.
MACD is also weak.
The DIF is near -0.0025, the signal line is around -0.0022, and the histogram remains slightly negative.
The indicator is no longer showing the same extreme downside momentum from the crash, but it has not confirmed a strong reversal either.
CCI is near -61.
That keeps momentum below neutral but well above the extreme oversold levels recorded during the sell-off.
Overall, the indicators point to stabilization rather than a confirmed recovery.
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There were several major XRP-related developments this week.
Ripple-backed digital asset treasury firm Evernorth completed its SPAC merger and is preparing to trade on Nasdaq under ticker XRPN.
The company holds roughly 473 million XRP, worth around $662 million at current prices, and raised more than $1 billion.
That gives public-market investors another way to gain indirect exposure to XRP.
Another major development came from RippleX.
The team disclosed and patched a critical integer-overflow vulnerability that had been present in the XRP Ledger since 2015.
In theory, the bug could have allowed an attacker to create spendable XRP beyond the network’s 100 billion token cap.
The important part is that RippleX reported no evidence that the flaw had ever been exploited on the public network.
Avalanche founder Emin Gün Sirer also commented on the broader security issue.
He warned that increasingly capable AI systems could eventually uncover hidden software vulnerabilities in blockchains faster than human researchers.
His comments were speculative and were not tied to any active exploit affecting XRP Ledger.
So the week’s news produced a mixed picture.
Evernorth adds another institutional XRP vehicle, the XRPL bug was serious but has been patched, and the AI-security debate adds another long-term issue for blockchain developers to monitor.
The chart leaves three realistic scenarios for October 12-18.
Scenario What could happen XRP price range Bullish XRP reclaims $1.42 and builds momentum above $1.45 $1.48-$1.52, potentially $1.55 Neutral XRP consolidates after the recent crash $1.35-$1.45 Bearish $1.36 fails and sellers retest recent lows $1.31-$1.33, potentially $1.25The bullish case needs XRP to reclaim $1.42 first.
A move above $1.45 would then reopen the path toward $1.48-$1.52.
If XRP can finally break above $1.52, the next target would likely move toward $1.55-$1.60.
The neutral scenario would keep price trapped between roughly $1.35 and $1.45 as traders wait for broader crypto conditions to improve.
The bearish scenario becomes more likely if the XRP price loses $1.36.
That would bring $1.33 back into play, followed by the recent $1.318 low.
A sustained break below that area could expose $1.25.
For this week, the main battle is simple.
XRP needs to recover $1.42-$1.45 to rebuild momentum.
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