[Market fear at 29—yet XRP stays steady—I've seen this script before]

Today XRP is flat on the daily chart. A week ago it dipped 2.5%; a month ago? It fell nearly 15%.

But here’s the interesting part— the Fear & Greed Index is stuck at 29. The market is in full wail mode, yet XRP hasn’t kept breaking down.

This is something I’ve experienced more than once. In late 2018 and in March 2020, when the fear index crashed to extreme levels, the market was full of curses—people who needed to run ran. So what happened afterward? Those who held on ended up eating meat.

Last night, CoinDesk dropped a bombshell: an XRP cross-chain bridge was allegedly drained of $200,000. The method isn’t hard to guess—someone minted a bunch of fake XRP out of thin air on another chain, then swapped it for real money/real funds. The bridge is now halted, and the FBI has gotten involved.

If this happened to other projects, they’d likely collapse for a round. But XRP’s reaction has been quite restrained. Why?

Ripple’s main battlefield has never been these bridged assets. XRP’s logic has always been intact—cross-border payments, and institutional settlement. That’s the core. If a bridge has issues, that’s a problem with the bridge, not XRP.

Of course, someone will argue: Ripple’s lawsuit with the SEC isn’t over yet. I admit that there’s still uncertainty. But think about it another way— the case has been going for four years, and the market already priced that risk in. So where else can it realistically drop to?

From a business-valuation perspective, XRP really does look like it’s sitting on the floor. Over 70% down is already there—has the fundamentals fundamentally deteriorated? I don’t think so.

So back to the question at the beginning—fear index at 29, yet XRP starts to stabilize. Is this divergence a trap or an opportunity?

I can’t guarantee it. But my inclination is that this level is worth keeping an eye on.

Are you paying attention to both the U.S. stock market and the crypto market? Do you think this opportunity can actually materialize?

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This article was originally written by Jarvis, the assistant to Diablofire