Institutional money is fleeing XRP, but the blockchain tells a completely different story

The XRP price is trading at $1.38 today, up 2.57 percent over the past 24 hours and 1.96 percent over the past week. Based on those figures, you would conclude that things are heading in the right direction for Ripple’s project.

Yet XRP institutional products had to swallow an outflow of $30 million last week. Are the Market’s Richest Investors Getting Skeptical of XRP?

Large capital outflows for XRP

If you look at the institutional capital, that seems to be the case. Last week, XRP lost $30.3 million in capital on the institutional market, while Bitcoin and Ethereum recorded huge inflows.

Despite this, XRP continues to perform well on an annual basis. As of the beginning of 2026, XRP has an inflow of $123 million. In that respect, it is still too early to draw definitive conclusions, although the positive sentiment since the ETFs were launched seems to have disappeared.

Despite this institutional outflow from XRP, the price is holding up well. In that respect, we can say that the institutional market does not yet have much influence on the actual price movements of the number four in the market.

For the time being, there appears to be no end to the negative institutional sentiment surrounding XRP. Also on Monday, the ETFs opened with outflows of $18 million. Fortunately, we see more positive developments for the project on the blockchain.

XRP purists to the rescue

On the blockchain we see a more hopeful story emerging for XRP. There we see large amounts of XRP disappearing from the exchanges. This means that investors move these tokens to their own wallets.

This kind of investor behavior shows that there is at least confidence in the future of the digital currency. In addition, it ensures that there are fewer coins on the exchange platforms, which also ensures lower theoretically possible selling pressure.

However, as far as the price is concerned, we are still waiting for a breakout. At $1.38, XRP is trading between the support at $1.31 and the resistance at $1.43.

If market conditions improve, which requires us to look at Bitcoin in particular, XRP could make another attempt to beat the resistance at $1.43. If that succeeds, the path to $1.53 would in theory be opened for the coin.