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While XRP price is breaking through local lows, the real and far more important story is unfolding directly inside the blockchain. Over the past two weeks, on-chain engagement in the XRP Ledger has jumped by 71.7%, according to Ali Martinez and Santiment, increasing the number of daily active addresses from a stagnant 23,000 to more than 39,500.
This sudden revival points to a deeper shift in XRP users' behavior that is happening separately from the current price action, where the coin remains trapped in a downtrend near the $1.04 mark and is testing a local support level.
Unexpected force behind XRP's 71% network surge
The "Active Addresses" metric captures not just speculative trades, but the activity of unique wallets: users have started actively moving funds, interacting with smart contracts, or redistributing their positions inside the network.
In practice, such concentrated spikes have historically signaled hidden portfolio rebalancing by whales or a phase of quiet accumulation, directly linking the technical health of the blockchain to its market prospects, since large players always move capital long before real commercial payment flows grow within the XRPL ecosystem.
At the same time, the chart shows that XRP price is currently trading well below its moving averages, with EMAs at $1.12 and $1.24, pointing to a strong divergence between falling market value and rising fundamental indicators.
In the cryptocurrency industry, on-chain activity often serves as a leading indicator, since market value usually follows network utility, while "sleeping" blockchains rarely manage to sustain upward trends.
The fact that the XRP Ledger has delivered such a powerful spike in on-chain metrics in just 14 days may catch traders off guard — the network has officially awakened, and now the only question is how quickly this inflow of liquidity can reverse the chart and push the price toward the nearest key resistance around $1.50.
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Dan Burgin
