XRP has been unable to break above $1.50 despite processing nearly 2.5 million transactions per day, more than double the sub-1 million daily average seen before 2024.
A report from Canary Capital examining XRP’s fundamentals points to a growing disconnect between the token’s price performance and the underlying network metrics, raising questions about whether the market has fully priced in the infrastructure activity happening on-chain.
The report stated that XRP’s primary function is as a bridge currency for cross-border payments. The traditional correspondent banking model requires financial institutions to pre-fund accounts in destination currencies across multiple countries, locking up capital for days while transactions settle through intermediaries.
The XRP Ledger offers an alternative:
- Transactions settle in three to five seconds
- No pre-funded accounts required at destination
- Fees remain fractions of a cent per transaction
- Every fee is permanently burned, making the fixed 100 billion token supply deflationary over time
Several on-chain indicators point to network growth running ahead of price:
- The NVT ratio, which measures market cap relative to daily transaction volume, has declined continuously since 2015, suggesting transaction activity is outpacing market valuation
- Daily active addresses hold between 25,000 and 50,000, with spikes corresponding to price increases
- Google search interest for XRP remains elevated above any period since 2020, though a potential bearish divergence is forming between search activity and price
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The MVRV ratio, which compares current market cap to the cost basis of all holders, sits just under 2.0, near multi-year highs. Historically, elevated MVRV readings have preceded profit-taking and short-term price corrections.
Hence, the gap between XRP’s transaction activity and its market price is something to keep an eye on in the near future. Whether the price eventually reflects the network’s growth or the network’s growth eventually slows to match the price is the central question the Canary Capital report leaves open.
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