XRP ETF Inflows Lift XRPI to $13.12 and XRPR to $18.57 as XRP-USD Price Targets $2.40+

XRP ETF Rotation 2026: XRPI And XRPR Move To Center Stage

XRPI And XRPR Price Snapshot: Leveraged Play On XRP-USD Above $2

XRPI (NASDAQ: XRPI) last traded around $13.12, down 2.42% on the day after a $0.32 drop from $13.44. Intraday it moved between $12.77 and $13.89, against a 52-week range of $10.44–$23.53, with average daily volume near 530,000 shares. That puts XRPI in the upper half of its yearly band, but still more than 40% below its peak, giving room if XRP-USD re-tests or clears its old high near $3.84.
XRPR (BATS: XRPR) trades around $18.57, down 2.77% from a prior close of $19.10, with a daily range of $18.10–$19.62 versus a 52-week corridor of $14.79–$25.99 and much thinner liquidity at roughly 27,600 shares per session. XRPR sits mid-range, but its band is narrower and more volatile, reflecting a more concentrated structure and higher sensitivity to flows. Both funds are essentially wrappers on the same underlying move: XRP-USD trading around $2.30–$2.40, after touching $2.41 intraday and delivering daily jumps of ~10–12% and weekly gains of roughly +25–27% at the start of 2026.

Spot XRP-USD Momentum: From Underperformer To Leader In Early 2026

On the token side, XRP-USD has flipped from chronic laggard to front-runner in the large-cap basket. Prints around $2.36–$2.41 represent a daily rise of ~9.5–12%, with year-to-date performance already near +27% on some tapes and more than +10% in a single session in others. One feed shows XRP at $2.39, up over 12% on the day, another has it at $2.36 with a 24-hour high near $2.41, and another records $2.37, up 10.69% in a day.
Key price zones are clearly defined. The $2.00 handle is acting as a psychological pivot; short-term support has been mapped around $2.01–$2.03, while prior resistance clustered into the $2.22–$2.30 area has now been tested or broken on elevated volume. Technical frameworks looking at recent structure flag upside checkpoints around $2.49, $2.94, and $3.26, with the major ceiling still the legacy high near $3.84. For XRPI and XRPR, that means current NAVs are being driven by an underlying asset that has reclaimed the $2 zone, is working through multi-year resistance, and is doing it while ETF demand is still building, not fading.

XRPI And XRPR ETF Flows: From Launch To $1.3–1.6 Billion In Record Time

The defining feature of the XRP ETF trade is the flow profile. Since U.S. spot XRP ETFs launched in November, net subscriptions have accelerated far faster than a typical altcoin product cycle. One dataset shows cumulative inflows of roughly $1.18 billion and total ETF assets around $1.37 billion; another set of figures puts ETF-held net assets at about $1.65 billion after a single day where clients bought $46.1 million worth of XRP through ETFs. In parallel, total cumulative inflows across five listed funds are reported above $1.6 billion.
The behavior is consistent:
Daily intake has reached about $46–48 million in recent sessions Weekly inflows have printed around $43 million December alone saw roughly $483 million flow into XRP ETFs There was a streak of about 30 consecutive trading days with net inflows, broken only by a day with zero, not negative, flow
Total inflows since launch are now quoted in the $1.3–1.6 billion range, and assets under management sit in the $1.37–1.65 billion band depending on the cut. For a product class that did not exist a few months ago, this is a very fast ramp and it is happening with no confirmed series of outflow days. That is exactly the pattern you want behind XRPI and XRPR: a steady, rules-based bid from institutional allocators rather than hot money cycling in and out intraday.

Rotation Versus Bitcoin And Ethereum ETFs: Why XRP ETFs Are Gaining Share

The strength in XRPI and XRPR becomes clearer when you overlay flows into Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs. On one side, spot BTC ETFs still post blockbuster sessions – around $697 million of net inflows on a recent trading day, more than $1.1 billion over the first two sessions of 2026 – but this follows two months of heavy outflows, roughly $3.48 billion in November and $1.09 billion in December.
On the other side, over the past weeks XRP ETFs absorbed about $483 million, while Bitcoin ETFs bled approximately $1.09 billion and Ethereum ETFs lost around $564 million. That is direct, measurable rotation: capital exiting older, larger products at the margin and re-entering the sector via newer XRP-linked ETFs. December data reinforces the point – $483 million into XRP funds, negative for BTC and ETH – and the first week of 2026 continues the pattern with XRP inflows and BTC/ETH still digesting prior leverage.
This is why some frameworks now rank XRP spot ETFs as the stronger opportunistic bet for 2026, even while acknowledging that Bitcoin ETFs remain the primary core holding for risk-controlled portfolios. XRPI and XRPR sit where the incremental dollar of institutional demand is actually going.

Derivatives And Market Structure: Futures Open Interest, Liquidity, And Volatility

The derivatives tape confirms that the current XRP move is not a thin, illiquid spike. Futures open interest has climbed from roughly $3.6 billion to about $3.8 billion in a single day, signaling that traders are adding gross exposure rather than simply repricing existing positions. This rise in open interest is occurring alongside higher spot volumes and the ETF inflow numbers above, which means:
Order books are deep enough to absorb XRPI/XRPR creations without immediate slippage The ETF arbitrage mechanism has a robust underlying market to lean on Volatility is structurally higher, because any future reduction in that $3.8 billion stack can cascade into both spot and ETF pricing
Analysts tracking liquidity behavior also highlight that the aggressive leg higher has left several fair-value gaps and inefficiencies below current price. Historically, those zones often act as magnets during pauses or corrections, implying that while the dominant trend is up, XRP-USD, and therefore XRPI/XRPR, are not going to move in a straight line from $2.30–$2.40 to the next resistance cluster without sharp setbacks.

ETF Inflows As A Structural Demand Engine For XRP, XRPI And XRPR

The crucial difference between this XRP cycle and prior attempts to break out is the nature of demand. Earlier rallies were driven primarily by retail spot buying and leveraged futures flow; the current advance is anchored by regulated vehicles – XRPI, XRPR and their peers – that must hold the underlying asset.
Since launch, XRP funds have accumulated about $1.18–1.6 billion of net inflows, with total ETF assets in the $1.37–1.65 billion range. These vehicles purchase XRP as primary creation units expand, and that inventory is typically held in institutional custody rather than being recycled quickly. That makes ETF flows a structural buyer of XRP every day flows stay positive.
For XRPI and XRPR holders, this matters more than short-term price noise. As long as:
Daily flows remain net positive or at least flat Cumulative inflows continue to trend higher ETF AUM ticks up toward the $2–3 billion area over the year
you effectively have an embedded demand engine under the price of XRP-USD, which in turn supports NAV for both ETFs.

Macro And Regulatory Context: Why XRP ETFs Suddenly Fit Institutional Mandates

The rotation into XRP ETFs would not be happening without two broader shifts. First, macro: the market now expects several U.S. rate cuts through 2026, lowering the opportunity cost of holding non-yielding and high-beta assets. In that environment, allocating a few percentage points of a portfolio into crypto becomes easier to justify, especially when the alternative is cash yielding less each quarter.
Second, regulation and structure: clarity around XRP’s legal status has reduced headline risk, and the arrival of spot ETFs under standard securities regulation gives institutions exactly what they need – a simple ticker, centralized custody, and a 1099-friendly wrapper. That is why you see figures like $483 million of XRP ETF inflows in a single month, $43 million in a week, and $46 million on an individual session so early in the life of these products. The AUM numbers around $1.37–1.65 billion are still small next to Bitcoin, but the slope is what matters for XRPI/XRPR holders.

Longer-Term Scenarios: From $3.84 ATH To Double-Digit XRP Targets

Beyond the immediate breakout, several structural analyses map higher-timeframe scenarios for XRP-USD, which implicitly frame the upside skew for XRPI and XRPR. One cycle model compares current price action to the 2017 structure and assigns a “base case” band around $33–$50 for the token on a full expansion, with an extended “cup-and-handle” style pattern pointing toward $77–$100 in an extreme scenario.
Others are more conservative but still well above today’s $2.30–$2.40 region. Some projections focus on a move through the old $3.84 high and into a $4–$5 range on a combination of ETF demand, macro tailwinds and real-world usage. Shorter-term technical views flag $2.49, $2.94, and $3.26 as interim waypoints if the current leg holds.
None of these paths are guaranteed, but they define the asymmetry: at roughly $13.12 for XRPI and $18.57 for XRPR, with XRP around $2.30–$2.40 and still roughly 40% below its historical high, the ETF complex is pricing in a bullish continuation but not a full post-ATH discovery phase yet. If XRP simply revisits $3.84 with similar ETF leverage, both funds have meaningful upside; if it overshoots, the convexity to the token is significant.

Risk Profile: ETF Outflows, Ripple Concentration, And Pullback Zones

The bullish structure around XRPI and XRPR does not eliminate risk; it concentrates it. Key vulnerabilities include:
Flow reversal: the same flow engine that lifted XRP can reverse. Bitcoin ETFs saw about $3.48 billion of outflows in November and $1.09 billion in December after an earlier inflow wave. A similar pattern in XRP – for example, a turn from 30 straight inflow days and $483 million in December inflows to sustained outflows – would remove the structural bid that underpins the current move.
Supply concentration: Ripple still controls a large block of XRP. Recent on-chain data flagged a 250 million XRP transfer from escrow, worth more than $520 million at that moment, with around 45 billion XRP remaining in escrow and about 1 billion XRP outside escrow in Ripple-linked wallets. Even if those transfers do not immediately hit exchanges, the market must constantly discount the possibility of new supply entering over time.
Technical air pockets: the rapid rally toward $2.40 left “gaps” and untested demand zones lower down. Analysts point to potential retrace areas around prior resistance bands and unfilled fair-value regions; if demand fades, XRP can revisit those zones quickly, which would translate into sharp drawdowns for XRPI/XRPR.
Correlation risk: XRP continues to trade like a high-beta risk asset rather than a macro hedge. When broader sentiment flips – for example, on weak U.S. data, a hawkish shift from the Fed, or equity stress – crypto tends to move with tech and growth stocks, amplifying losses.

Investment Stance On XRP ETFs XRPI And XRPR: High-Risk Bullish Bias

Taking all the data together – spot prints around $2.30–$2.40, ETF prices near $13.12 for XRPI and $18.57 for XRPR, cumulative ETF inflows in the $1.18–1.6 billion range, assets under management of about $1.37–1.65 billion, December inflows of $483 million, a 30-day inflow streak, weekly price performance near +25–27%, futures open interest climbing toward $3.8 billion, and clear rotation away from Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs – the picture is straightforward.
The market is treating XRP-linked ETFs as the aggressive leg of the 2026 crypto allocation story. XRPI and XRPR are tightly wired into that narrative and currently sit in the sweet spot where:
Flows are still early but already large Price has broken out but has not yet reclaimed the $3.84 all-time high Structural demand is real, not hypothetical
On that basis, the stance on XRPI and XRPR is bullish, with a clear high-risk profile. From a pure data perspective, the setup justifies a speculative Buy view for investors who understand that:
Volatility will remain extreme Drawdowns back toward earlier support zones are likely A reversal in ETF flow behavior would be a hard sell signal
If flow momentum, macro tailwinds, and technical structure stay aligned, XRPI and XRPR have room to rerate higher alongside XRP-USD as long as the token continues to hold above the $2.00–$2.20 band and ETF assets keep grinding up from the $1.3–1.6 billion area toward the next scale.

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