XRP drops nearly 8% against Bitcoin in a week as crypto market sells off

By Khal · · 2 min read

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In brief

  • XRP fell 4.9% in 24 hours and 12.4% over the week, per CoinGecko data cited by U.Today.
  • Bitcoin dropped 1.4% in 24 hours and 4.9% over seven days in the same snapshot.
  • XRP lost nearly 8% of its value against Bitcoin in one week, U.Today calculated.
  • XRP also trailed Ethereum (down 7.4%) and Solana (down 8.6%) over the week.
  • XRP community members, some of them, rejected claims the drop points to problems with XRP itself.

How the numbers stack up

XRP's slide looks sharper once you set it against Bitcoin. BTC was down just 1.4% over the same 24 hours and 4.9% over seven days, according to the CoinGecko data U.Today cited (again, measured when U.Today's report was written). Comparing that 4.9% weekly decline with XRP's 12.4% drop, U.Today calculated that XRP lost nearly 8% of its value against Bitcoin in a single week.

That's a wide spread for seven days.

Bitcoin wasn't spared, either. U.Today reported that BTC fell to around $73,761 at one point on Sunday before it recovered somewhat. XRP's decline came as part of that wider market sell-off, not in isolation.

XRP also trails ETH and SOL

Ethereum held up better. It was down 7.4% over the week, per the same CoinGecko figures reported by U.Today. Solana lost 8.6% over seven days, a bigger fall than ETH's but still short of XRP's 12.4% decline.

Out of the four assets in U.Today's comparison (XRP, BTC, ETH and SOL), XRP posted the largest weekly loss. It's the only one of the four that dropped by double digits over the week.

Community pushes back

Not everyone in the XRP community reads the drop as a sign of trouble with the token. U.Today reported that some notable members took aim at those claiming the latest crash is a symptom of problems with XRP itself. Vet, a popular XRP Ledger validator, also pointed out that Ethereum and Solana had taken large losses, according to U.Today's account.

So is this an XRP problem or a market problem? The figures U.Today cited don't settle that question on their own. What they do show is a market-wide decline in which XRP fell harder than its larger peers over the week, with every number here a snapshot taken at the time of U.Today's writing.

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