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#XRP remains under pressure as the broader market downturn continues into its seventh month. Amid the price decline, on-chain data from Glassnode shows market participation has not recovered after the October 2025 crash, with the XRP Open Interest (OI) still sliding.
Key Points
XRP’s open interest dropped from 7 billion XRP in October 2025 to 2 billion XRP, marking a 71% collapse.OI has since declined further to 1.5 billion XRP worth, showing that traders have not rebuilt positions.Coinglass data shows OI peaked above $10 billion in July 2025 before falling after the October 10 crash.Low OI shows weak momentum in the short term but could support a stronger and more stable rally if accumulation continues over time.
XRP Seeing Weak Derivatives Activity
In its recent analysis, Glassnode stressed that a major deleveraging event took place in early October 2025, when XRP perpetual futures open interest fell from 7 billion XRP to 2 billion XRP, a 71% drop. This decline came as many leveraged positions were wiped out during the price crash.
Since then, open interest has continued to shrink. Specifically, it has dropped another 25% to 1.5 billion XRP, now valued at about $2.01 billion. 

According to Glassnode, this sustained decline shows that traders have not returned to the derivatives market. Notably, this is largely because market participants are still cautious and unwilling to take on high-risk positions.
Historical Data
Additional data from Coinglass confirms this trend. The chart shows that the XRP open interest rose from about $4 billion in June 2025 to over $10 billion in July 2025. This increase happened during a strong rally that pushed XRP to a new all-time high of $3.6.
After reaching this peak, both price and open interest started to fall. However, open interest stayed relatively high between $7.3 billion and $8.2 billion from late July to early October 2025, showing that traders were still active. 
This changed after the Oct. 10, 2025, crypto market crash, which caused heavy liquidations across the market. During this period, the XRP open interest dropped from $9 billion on Oct. 7 to $3.49 billion by Oct. 19, 2025.

The decline continued in the following months. Specifically, open interest stayed near $3 billion until January 2026, then fell further to $2.6 billion by early February 2026. 
It now stands at about $2.4 billion based on Coinglass data. This is slightly higher than Glassnode’s figure of $2.01 billion (1.5 billion XRP), mainly because Coinglass tracks a wider range of data. Even so, both sources show that open interest has not recovered since the October crash and has kept falling.
How Does This Impact XRP’s Recovery Chances
With lower open interest, price movement often becomes weaker and less clear. Notably, fewer active positions mean less momentum, which can lead to slow trends, weak breakouts, and short rallies that do not last. This helps explain why XRP has struggled to hold gains during recent attempts to recover.
Meanwhile, lower leverage also reduces the chances of sudden, sharp moves caused by liquidations. This can make the market feel calmer for a while. However, if open interest starts to rise again, volatility could quickly rise.
There are two ways to look at the current situation. On the bearish side, the low open interest shows weak confidence, suggesting that large traders are either staying away or quietly buying in the spot market instead of using leverage. This can slow down any strong recovery.
On the other hand, the drop in XRP’s open interest could be a healthy reset over the long term. When the market removes excess leverage, it becomes more stable, which can support stronger and more lasting rallies later on. In most cases, major uptrends begin after this kind of reset.
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I’ve been sitting with this for a while, not trying to sort it out too quickly. Just letting it unfold in small pieces. The kind of story that doesn’t really arrive all at once—it sort of seeps in, quietly, until you realize it’s already around you.

When I think about Eric Swalwell stepping away from Congress, it doesn’t feel dramatic in the way headlines try to make it. It feels… tired. Like something that’s been carrying weight for too long and finally sets it down, not with a loud drop, but with a kind of quiet acceptance. I imagine the days leading up to it—not the public ones, but the private ones. The conversations that go in circles. The moments of staring at nothing in particular, knowing a decision is getting closer even if you don’t say it out loud yet.

There’s always more behind a resignation than what we’re told. Not secrets exactly—just layers. Doubt, pressure, maybe even relief mixed with something heavier. Leaving isn’t always about one reason. Sometimes it’s about everything at once.

And then, almost at the same time, there’s Donald Trump and Pope Leo XIV, speaking at each other across something as large and distant as the Iran War. But even calling it “distant” doesn’t feel right. It has a way of pulling everything closer, even conversations that seem like they shouldn’t overlap.

I keep noticing how different their voices feel. One sharp, immediate, almost forceful. The other slower, reaching for something that sounds like conscience, or maybe just restraint. But when those two tones meet, they don’t balance each other. They scrape. And the friction becomes the story.

It makes me wonder what happens to the space in between—where people are just trying to understand what’s right, or even what’s real. When leaders argue like this, especially over something as heavy as war, it doesn’t just stay between them. It spreads. It settles into the way everything else is talked about. It changes the atmosphere, even if no one says that directly.

I think what stays with me most is not the conflict itself, but the feeling around it. A kind of quiet unease. Like things are being decided somewhere just out of sight, while what we see are only the edges of it. A resignation here. A public clash there. Moments that feel important, but also incomplete, like they’re part of something still forming.

And there’s something strangely human in all of it. Not in a comforting way, exactly, but in a real one. People under pressure. People reacting. People holding onto their version of what matters, even when it collides with someone else’s. It reminds me that behind all the titles and roles, there’s still hesitation, ego, belief, uncertainty—all the things that don’t show neatly in public statements.

I don’t think any of it lands cleanly. A resignation doesn’t fully close a chapter. A feud doesn’t fully define a truth. They just shift the weight around. Move it somewhere else.

So I keep sitting with that feeling—that things are still moving, even when they look like they’ve stopped. Like there’s more beneath all of this that hasn’t surfaced yet. And maybe won’t, at least not in a way that feels complete.

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I’m just sitting with it, watching the way it all gets talked about like it’s far away, like it belongs somewhere else, when it never really feels that distant once you stay with it long enough. A president speaks in that firm, clipped way that tries to sound like the world can be lined up neatly if the words are strong enough. A pope answers in a different rhythm altogether—slower, heavier in a way that doesn’t push, but lingers. And between them, Iran becomes the center of attention, as if naming it clearly makes everything else easier to hold.

But it doesn’t. It rarely does.

What keeps catching me is not the clash itself, but what sits just outside it. The things that don’t get said twice. The consequences that aren’t part of the original sentence. It always starts with something that sounds decisive, and then slowly you begin to notice how many directions it spreads into after the moment has already passed. Not loudly. More like a quiet widening.

I keep thinking about how different these voices are, and yet how similar the pressure underneath them feels. One leans into certainty, into action, into the idea that delay makes things worse. The other seems to carry a kind of weight that asks people to pause, to think about what action leaves behind once it’s already done. And neither one really feels complete on its own. They both feel like they’re holding part of something larger that never fully shows itself.

What’s harder to see is where all of this actually lands.

Not in the speeches, not in the headlines, but afterward—when the moment is gone and people are just left adjusting to what’s changed without ever being asked if they were ready for it. That’s where it gets real in a different way. A quiet shift in tone. A bit more tension in everyday conversations. People reading between lines they didn’t used to have to read between. It doesn’t announce itself. It just starts to sit in the background of things.

And I don’t know why, but I keep coming back to that part more than anything else—the aftermath that doesn’t have a voice. The part that doesn’t get debated on stage, but still has to be lived in by people who were never in the room when the decisions were shaped.

There’s also this feeling that so much of it depends on what is left unseen. Not in a dramatic sense, not like hidden plans or clear secrets, but just the ordinary distance between decision and understanding. Things are explained, but not fully. Words are chosen carefully, but they don’t always carry everything they’re supposed to. And most people are left to fill in the gaps with whatever makes the most sense at the time.

That’s where uncertainty settles in—not as a big event, but as something gradual. Something you only notice after it’s already there.

And maybe that’s what makes this particular moment feel heavier than it should on paper. It’s not just the disagreement between powerful figures. It’s the sense that once something like this starts moving, it doesn’t stay contained inside the language used to start it. It spreads outward into places that never asked for it, reshaping small things in ways that are hard to name while they’re happening.

I keep trying to stay with that feeling instead of rushing past it. Because it doesn’t feel like something that can be neatly understood from a distance. It feels more like something you notice slowly, while living alongside it, while hearing different versions of it depending on who’s speaking.

And even now, it doesn’t feel like it’s settling into anything clear. It still feels open. Still moving. Still unfinished in a way that makes you realize the story is not really happening in the statements themselves, but in everything that quietly comes after them.

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