{"id":19201,"date":"2026-08-20T17:55:36","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T17:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nile1.com\/en\/?p=19201"},"modified":"2026-08-20T17:55:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T17:55:43","slug":"xrp-surges-30-to-1-29-as-macro-treasury-plan-triggers-crypto-wide-breakout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nile1.com\/en\/2026\/08\/20\/xrp-surges-30-to-1-29-as-macro-treasury-plan-triggers-crypto-wide-breakout\/","title":{"rendered":"XRP Surges 30% to $1.29 as Macro Treasury Plan Triggers Crypto-Wide Breakout"},"content":{"rendered":"

In brief
\n* XRP<\/a> gained 10.40% on Wednesday alone, marking its largest single-day advance since February 6, before pushing its weekly gains to roughly 30%.
\n* The rally followed Bitcoin<\/a>‘s surge past $72,000, driven by $3 billion in short liquidations<\/a> and a U.S. Treasury buyback plan starting September 9.
\n* Spot ETF inflows for XRP slowed during the price spike, while derivative futures open interest declined more than 11% from its peak.<\/p>\n

A weekly surge of approximately 30% has pushed XRP to trade around $1.29, lifting the Ripple-linked cryptocurrency back above the $1 threshold it hovered beneath last weekend.<\/p>\n

The advance marks the digital asset’s most significant weekly performance in months, emerging from price territory unseen since immediately preceding its late-2024 political surge. After hitting a low of $0.9862 last week, the token matched the identical range it occupied prior to the November 2024 rally that drove it toward a peak near $3.65.<\/p>\n

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The bulk of those gains materialized during Wednesday’s trading session. XRP surged 10.40% that day, recording its largest single-day percentage gain since Feb. 6, a session that featured a spike exceeding 20%. Momentum extended into Thursday with a second upward push, advancing the weekly candle toward $1.32\u2014the narrowest gap to its 200-day moving average since early in the year..<\/p>\n

\"XRPXRP price data. Image: Tradingview<\/p>\n

As usually occurs across alternative crypto assets, Bitcoin served as the primary catalyst. Bitcoin surged past $72,000 Thursday to reach its highest level since a June flash crash, spurred by a U.S. Treasury statement outlining plans to double long-bond buybacks to a minimum of $4 billion per operation beginning Sept. 9. That policy notice forced $3 billion in short liquidations within 24 hours, unfolding just prior to a White House meeting between Trump and leadership from Coinbase, Ripple, and Robinhood.<\/p>\n

Government debt buyback operations effectively inject liquidity into the financial system by exchanging long-dated Treasury securities for cash, reducing net bond supply and easing financial conditions. In digital asset markets, such expanded liquidity historically enhances investor risk appetite, frequently triggering liquidations among traders maintaining leveraged short bets.<\/p>\n

While macroeconomic news supported the rally, XRP exceeded the gains typically implied by its historical correlation with Bitcoin. On daily technical charts, its Relative Strength Index<\/a>, or RSI, spiked to 79.2.<\/p>\n

The RSI metric evaluates price momentum on a 0-to-100 scale, where depressed readings denote oversold conditions and elevated values flag overbought levels. Reaching nearly 80 puts XRP firmly in overbought status. Meanwhile, the token’s Average Directional Index, or ADX, score is holding well above 29, indicating an increasing trend strength due to the explosive movement. (ADX measures trend strength, regardless of direction, with anything over 25 signaling a confirmed trend.)<\/p>\n

Institutional capital flows, however, presented a contrasting picture. Daily XRP ETF inflows fell from $5.81 million to $2.35 million the same day the token beat Bitcoin\u2019s gains, while Bitcoin ETFs pulled in $517 million, their biggest single-day haul since May.<\/p>\n

<img alt="XRP ETF data. Image: CoinGlass<\/a>” loading=”lazy” width=”1272″ height=”496″ data-nimg=”1″ class=”object-contain object-center w-full” style=”color:transparent” src=”https:\/\/nile1.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Captura-de-pantalla-2026-08-20-140918.png@webp.webp” \/>XRP ETF data. Image: CoinGlass<\/p>\n

Futures open interest has already dropped 11.31% from its rally-day reading, and XRP still trades about 17.5% below its 200-day trend.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, the divergence between spot momentum and falling futures participation underscores key technical hurdles ahead. With the token still situated roughly 17.5% beneath its long-term moving average, buyers must sustain upward price action over subsequent sessions to confirm a genuine structural trend reversal.<\/p>\n

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