XRP Just Broke Above Its Bearish Barrier—But One Signal Still Has Not Flipped

By Isaac • August 21, 2026 11:07 am •

XRP did more than join the latest crypto rally. It pushed through the technical ceiling that had kept every August bounce under control—and it did so while outperforming every other top-10 cryptocurrency.

That is the bullish part. The important catch is that price has cleared the barrier, but the moving averages themselves have not yet completed the crossover that would formally reverse XRP’s bearish setup.

XRP cleared both moving averages

Decrypt’s market analysis reported that XRP opened Friday near $1.27, reached an intraday high of $1.43 and traded around $1.40. More importantly for chart watchers, the daily candle moved above both the 50-day and 200-day exponential moving averages for the first time since the bearish crossover