XRP Defies Ripple-SEC Legal Drama: Bullish Momentum Unshaken in 2025
XRP's price action laughs in the face of regulatory uncertainty—again. While the SEC and Ripple's lawyers duke it out in court, traders keep stacking satoshis like there's no tomorrow.
Price resilience meets institutional FOMO
The sixth-largest crypto isn't waiting for permission to rally. Whales accumulated 120 million XRP last week alone, betting heavy on a settlement bounce. Meanwhile, retail traders keep chasing the 2024 ATH like it's the last chopper out of Saigon.
Technical breakout or dead cat bounce?
That 200-day moving average just got wrecked. The MACD histogram flipped green for the first time since the last SEC delay tactic. And yet—somehow—the 'experts' on CNBC still can't decide if this is a 'real' asset. Newsflash: your boomer bonds aren't exactly killing it either.
XRP's proving what crypto natives knew all along: markets move faster than bureaucrats. Whether this ends in moonshot or massacre, one thing's clear—the only thing more volatile than the charts is Gary Gensler's mood.
New data from blockchain analytics firm Santiment shows that while Optimism around Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) has recently cooled, retail sentiment for XRP is overwhelmingly positive.
BTC and ETH, the crypto market’s top two cryptocurrencies, have both witnessed a noticeable drop in positive sentiment on social media since late May.
Santiment noted that their sentiment ratios, which measure positive against negative commentary, have trended downward. This cooling in social buzz comes amid wild price volatility and downward pressure on both crypto’s prices, suggesting a more cautious stance among investors.
Bitcoin is trading at $106,897 at the time of publication, down 2% over the past 30 days. The alpha crypto hit $110,266 around two weeks ago on June 10, before entering a downtrend a day after Israel launched airstrikes on Iran that tanked equities and crypto markets.
Meanwhile, Ether recently dipped to $2,429. The crypto has been stuck below the psychologically important $3,000 mark for over 20 weeks following gradual erosion in trader confidence.
XRP Sentiment Positive As Judge Slaps Down $50M Settlement Request
In sharp contrast, XRP’s bullish-to-bearish comment ratio has climbed 2.1:1 — the highest in roughly 17 days.
Santiment analysts pointed out that this spike comes after New York judge Analisa Torres denied a joint request from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Ripple for her to grant a proposed settlement agreement that would reduce Ripple’s civil penalty to $50 million and lift the permanent injunction against the blockchain payments firm.
Despite the SEC adopting a more crypto-friendly regulatory posture in recent months under its new leadership, Torres found that the law hasn’t changed.
Although Torres’s ruling was a massive legal blow that could prolong the nearly five-year-long case, it seems to have unexpectedly sparked positive discussion and belief among XRP holders.
XRP was changing hands around $2.08 on Friday, a 2.4% decrease over the past day.
