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XRP Longs vs. Shorts: The Numbers Behind the $1 Battle Aren’t What They Seem

Summary by CryptoPotato
XRP’s fight to hold $1 has come with a side effect: a swirl of derivatives numbers that do not agree with each other. Open interest figures, long-short ratios, and taker volume splits have all been circulating this week, and Bird, a builder on the XRP Ledger, spent a long post untangling why none of them measure the same thing. Breaking Down the Real Numbers Bird’s starting point was open interest, the total value of futures contracts still open…
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XRP again fights for the level of $1 in a session full of contradictory signals. As Binance operators open up more and more bassist positions, the big investors — whales — have reduced their deposits to at least four years. The result is a battle between a selling market and an offer that, in parallel, is running out. The XRP Ledger cryptocurrency is listed in the $0.998 environment at the close of this edition. Open interest in Binance marks a …

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CryptoPotato broke the news on Monday, August 17, 2026.
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