XRP trades well below its 2025 highs right now, but that alone isn’t unusual for crypto. What stands out is what’s happening underneath the price. Exchange scarcity on Binance just climbed to
XRP trades well below its 2025 highs right now, but that alone isn’t unusual for crypto. What stands out is what’s happening underneath the price. Exchange scarcity on Binance just climbed to its highest reading in a chart stretching back to 2024.
Crypto commentator Xaif (@Xaif_Crypto) flagged the move. He pointed to a pattern that has shown up twice before, right before XRP made its biggest moves.
What the Chart Shows
The chart Xaif shared tracks XRP’s price against a Binance scarcity index. That index measures how much XRP is on the exchange relative to historical norms. A falling index means more XRP is piling up on Binance. A rising index means supply is thinning out.
Twice, the index plunged sharply. The first plunge came in April 2024, and the second came in late 2024. XRP’s price stayed flat during the first plunge, then surged following the second. That surge at the end of the year sent the asset up by over 500%.
The Current Setup
Now the index sits at its highest point since the chart began. XRP’s price, meanwhile, has slid from its all-time high of $3.65 down to around $1.10. Scarcity is rising, and Xaif’s post argues that less XRP on exchanges means less available supply to sell once demand returns. He believes the current setup mirrors the conditions that preceded both previous rallies.
Short-Term and Long-Term Reading
In the short term, a thinning exchange supply doesn’t guarantee an immediate price reaction. The current index has been climbing gradually since mid-2025 rather than spiking suddenly. That gradual build could mean any resulting move plays out differently than the sharp reversal seen in 2024.
In the long term, sustained scarcity on a major exchange like Binance typically notes holders moving XRP into self-custody or long-term storage rather than keeping it liquid for trading.
That kind of behavior tends to reduce available sell-side pressure over time. If demand picks up while supply on exchanges stays thin, the price impact could exceed what looser supply conditions would produce.
XRP’s current setup combines a familiar historical pattern with a supply signal that has now moved past its previous extremes. Whether that translates into a third rally similar to 2024’s moves remains an open question. The market will answer it in the coming weeks.
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