XRP Caps a 50% Week as Treasury Buybacks Reprice Crypto Risk

By Isaac • August 23, 2026 3:13 pm •

XRP has just delivered the kind of week that forces the entire crypto market to pay attention.

The fourth-largest digital asset climbed roughly 50% over seven days, putting it on pace for its strongest weekly performance since November 2024. The live market snapshot on Coinbase showed XRP near $1.51 on Sunday afternoon, up from roughly $1 a week earlier.

The advance lifted XRP’s market value to about $95 billion and left it behind only Bitcoin, Ether, and Tether in Coinbase’s popularity ranking. Trading volume remained above $6.5 billion over 24 hours, while the token’s one-month gain had stretched beyond 37%.

The speed of the move is the key fact. XRP outran Bitcoin by a wide margin