New York, May 31, 2026, 06:25 (EDT)
- XRP hovered around $1.34 on Sunday, mostly flat for the session and down for the week.
- Spot XRP ETFs listed in the U.S. pulled in new inflows. Bitcoin and ether products, on the other hand, saw outflows.
- ETF flows, more U.S. crypto-policy news, and XRP’s hold on the $1.30 level are in focus for the week ahead.
XRP stuck close to $1.34 on Sunday after a choppy end to May. There wasn’t a clear upside breakout, but flows into XRP-linked funds stayed positive. CoinGecko priced XRP at $1.34, off 0.4% in 24 hours and down 2% for the week. 24-hour trading volume was about $1.17 billion and total market value was near $82.8 billion.
XRP ETFs in the U.S. brought in $11.88 million on May 29 and around $35 million over the May 20-29 window, according to CoinDesk, which cited SoSoValue data. That came as bitcoin and ether ETFs saw outflows close to $2 billion in the same period. But XRP’s price hasn’t followed the inflows yet.
Crypto losses widen for May; Bitcoin holds at $73,674, ether at $2,014. CoinDesk late Friday said the sector is heading for its first monthly drop in three months, with bitcoin losing 4.5% and ether more than 11% so far in May.
XRP had a bumpy week but didn’t see big swings. The token opened at $1.3501 on May 25, dropped to $1.3074 on May 27, hit a low of $1.2687 on May 28, then came back to $1.3400 Saturday and $1.3411 Sunday, according to data.
The late-week rebound was enough to prevent the market from breaking down completely. The token is still rangebound, leaving both bulls and bears on edge.
Crypto trading firm Wincent’s senior director Paul Howard told Barron’s, “Crypto sentiment has broadly weakened since Oct. 10, 2025.” Howard said thin liquidity and a lack of new catalysts make the market more sensitive to geopolitical headlines. Barron’s
Policy took a back seat. The U.S. Senate Banking Committee pushed the Clarity Act forward on May 14, moving a crypto market-structure bill to the full Senate. But Reuters said two Democrats who voted for it in committee warned they could change their minds when the bill reaches the floor as talks go on. Miller Whitehouse-Levine, CEO at the Solana Policy Institute, called it the product of “years of work.” Reuters
Market structure gets a shakeup this week as Coinbase and Kalshi said Friday they’re rolling out regulated perpetual crypto futures in the U.S. These “perps” are derivatives with no set expiry and pack in a lot of leverage, which means both profits and losses can be bigger. “Onshore, safe, and regulated perps will improve capital allocation and risk management,” Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour said. Reuters
ETF inflows may not be enough to balance out selling in the token, according to CoinDesk. Analysts put $1.30 as the main support level, where buyers usually step in, and say XRP has to climb back above $1.32-$1.34 to turn things around. If it loses $1.30, downside risk to $1.20 opens up.
XRP heads into June with mixed signals. Funds are picking up some demand, but the rest of crypto stays soft, and price hangs in the low $1.30s. There’s no rally here. The market is stuck in wait-and-see mode.
