The XRP price is facing renewed selling pressure even as Ripple announces another step towards deeper institutional integration into the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem.
The token is trading near $1.42, down more than 10% in the last 24 hours as market participants focus less on enterprise growth and more on weakening technical and on-chain signals. The divergence shows a familiar pattern across markets, with positive infrastructure news not always translating into price support.
The recent decline accelerated after XRP fell below $1.60, a level that had previously served as short-term support. As this lower level has subsided, automated selling and stop-loss orders appear to have intensified the move, pushing prices closer to levels not seen since the last broader market pullback.
XRP's price trends to the downside on the daily chart. Source: XRPUSD on Tradingview
XRP prices fall as key supports are broken
Technical indicators suggest the sell-off has been acute. The Relative Strength Index is approaching oversold territory, reflecting mighty downward momentum rather than a tardy decline. During the decline, trading volume also increased, showing that sellers are acting with conviction rather than hesitation.
Supply chain data supports the cautious outlook. The latest indicators show a decline network activity and narrow evidence of sustained accumulation at current levels. In previous corrections, the XRP price often stabilized as wallet activity and transaction volumes began to escalate.
If the price fails to regain the $1.60 level, analysts are increasingly pointing to the psychological $1.00 level as the next area to watch. While oversold conditions can sometimes trigger short-term bounces, the broader structure suggests that XRP will remain vulnerable unless sentiment improves.
Ripple’s Hyperliquid Integration Doesn’t Boost XRP
The price weakness came despite Ripple’s announcement that its institutional brokerage arm, Ripple Primeadded support for Hyperliquid, a decentralized derivatives platform.
The integration allows institutional clients to access perpetual futures contracts on-chain, while also connecting these positions to assets such as foreign exchange, fixed income and other digital assets through a single account.
The market reaction was mixed. While this move highlights Ripple’s desire to combine conventional finance and DeFi, it does not create a direct fresh demand driver for XRP itself. Some investors had hoped that Ripple would prioritize deeper integration of the XRP Ledger.
Divergent signals on the market
The contrast is stark elsewhere. Hyperliquid’s native token, HYPE, has shown relative strength following the integration news, trading above key moving averages even as the broader market weakens.
This discrepancy suggests that capital is flowing towards platforms associated with institutional trading activity, rather than towards older large-cap tokens that are struggling with technical failures.
For now, it appears that XRP’s trajectory is driven more by market structure and on-chain signals than by Ripple’s growing institutional reach. Until buyers step in decisively, the risk of a deeper move in the XRP price towards $1.00 remains present.
Cover image from ChatGPT, XRPUSD chart on Tradingview
