We track the XRP Ledger and Ripple ecosystem the way a serious analyst would: weekly news reviews with sourced commentary, on-chain and market data reports, RLUSD stablecoin monitoring, and long-form deep dives on the stories that actually move XRP. Five columns, built for depth over frequency.
The latest report in each of our five weekly columns — earlier editions are archived on each column page.
Sixteen sourced stories from a risk-off week: XRP down 8.3% to $1.3946 as hawkish September Fed minutes hit a market priced for cuts, three XRPL amendments activating inside eighteen hours, Evernorth's merger closing with the Nasdaq debut slipping to the coming week, a thirteenth straight positive ETF week at +$11.31M set against $1.25 billion of outflows from the rest of the complex, Ripple Prime's $35 billion mandate, RLUSD at $2.53 billion, the ledger's stablecoin mix and its one-issuer concentration, the CFTC's digital-commodity restatement and the SEC's cross-trading proposal, and a leverage book draining to $3.15 billion — each with a summary, an editorial take and the week's data snapshot.
Twenty-two sourced metrics for a liquidation week: a $1.3217–$1.5285 tape closing at $1.3946 (−8.3%), escrow carried at 31.54 billion with no cycle run, ETF inflows at +$11.31M while the complex's net assets fell to $1.57 billion against $1.80 billion of cumulative flows, $1.25 billion of cross-asset alt-coin outflows, RLUSD at $2.53 billion with about half of it on the ledger, the ledger's stablecoin base carried at its last dated read, and futures open interest at $3.15 billion with funding back to zero — every line with its source and snapshot date.
Five structured questions — whether anything actually broke or only the price, what a thirteenth straight ETF week means when the complex's assets fell, what the ledger actually turned on and who can use it, why Ripple's institutional week did not move the token, and what decides the week ahead — plus an honest 2-for-5 scorecard with its misses dissected and five new calls, each carrying a timestamp and a one-sided risk.
A risk-off week closing at $1.3946 (−8.3%): ETF inflows extended to a thirteenth straight positive week at +$11.31M while the complex's net assets fell to $1.57 billion against $1.80 billion of cumulative flows, open interest drained to $3.15 billion as funding returned to zero, RLUSD held above $2.5 billion, and XRP underperformed the majors into a $1.28 floor that now defines the downside case.
Research report: three XRPL amendments — Permission Delegation, Batch's signature fix and Batch itself — activated inside eighteen hours and took the ledger from 94 to 97 enabled features. What each one actually changes, why both had been withdrawn before, what the xrpld 3.4.1 upgrade requirement really gates, and the six signals that will confirm or falsify whether delegated permissions and atomic multi-step transactions get used — every figure sourced and dated.
Each column publishes one substantive report at a time — sourced, dated and editorially independent. Every figure we publish carries a source and a snapshot date; see our editorial policy.
Five regular research features across the XRP ecosystem — focused on depth over frequency.
10–20 of the week's most important XRP & Ripple stories, each with a sourced summary and an editorial take. We filter, de-duplicate and cross-verify before we publish.
Week-over-week and four-week trend analysis of the XRP Ledger's core metrics: market and supply data on two bases, escrow, network activity, RLUSD and ETF flows — every figure sourced and dated.
The same five questions every edition — network health, stablecoins, DeFi, payments, and an outlook for the week ahead. Scored against outcomes, and the questions stay identical so consecutive editions read side by side.
A combined weekly snapshot and monthly report: price, derivatives, ETF flows, relative strength, driver decomposition and scenario analysis.
One research-grade report at a time on the story that matters most — ETF flows, RLUSD milestones, XRPL upgrades, regulatory turns. Background, data, multiple perspectives, scenarios and risks.