Why Did XRP Volume Crash 37% Despite Price Jump? 🤔💸

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Oh great, XRP is up-or is it? Just like the time I thought I was headed places but ended up stuck in a traffic jam for no good reason. Here we go again, XRP’s price is jumping higher than my hopes for a quiet weekend. Altcoins too, just adding to the chaos, unprompted. It’s like when Judith decides to rearrange my entire living room because she thinks everyone likes her newfound sense of taste. 🙄

XRP hit a peak price-wait, what?-$1.877 today. Just when I was getting used to $1.86, it tanks and then rebounds like that time when I thought my stand-up career was over but then got a gig at a dive bar. Seems like whatever happened on Dec. 21-25, which might as well have been my childhood fantasy of world peace, traders got too cautious just before the holidays. Everyone’s afraid of their presents not being good enough, huh?

So, it’s up 1.7% today. That’s one step closer to the nearest whatever to meaningful, right? Except by typical Larry logic: people are still afraid to commit. XRP’s volume just dropped by 37% to $1.06 billion. It’s almost like trying to follow a diet where you cheat, but then you deny it so hard it’s as if you’ve never had an extra cookie. Literally, it’s holiday behavior. Thin liquidity and treacherous pickup lines-trading’s at its silliest just when you should be sipping eggnog.

If only crypto markets had the discipline of Trader Joe’s return policy. Now, we’ve heard from Coinbase Institutional-yeah, that’s a thing-about entering a new phase where the activity concentration is supposedly more important than whatever story people are selling. The year 2026, they say, will test whether crypto’s core market can scale under more disciplined conditions. I’ve heard similar motivational speeches at my gym, only to leave without working out because parking was too hard. 🚗🏋️‍♂️

Coinbase’s word of the day: “stability.” Because apparently, stablecoins and payments are the new, boring go-tos in the crypto world. Seriously, who decides these things? It’s as if Joey’s cooking club became known for getting things done efficiently. So, payment activity, if you even care about understanding it, is weaving itself into everything like a tangled ball of holiday lights, including AI-driven side hustles. How do they even do that? 😂

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2025-12-28 16:46