XRP's Two Clocks: Fund Money Drains While the Ledger Rewrites Its Rulebook
Published on 11/12/2026 at 21:51 | Editorial boerse-global.de
XRP changed hands at 1.03 USD on Wednesday, down 2.5% on the day, as a soft crypto market compounded a run of redemptions from US spot XRP exchange-traded funds. The funds have now posted net outflows for three straight sessions — Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday — leaving investors to weigh a deteriorating demand picture against a technical roadmap that is only partly built.
Where the money went
Monday's net redemptions from the US spot XRP ETFs totalled 10.4216 million dollars, according to media reports. Tuesday added another 7.62 million dollars, and Wednesday extended the streak. The two-way drag is clear: broad weakness across crypto assets on one side, shrinking demand through the ETF wrapper on the other. The price decline coincides with both.
That makes the fund flows worth watching well beyond a single trading day. A more constructive read on this demand channel would only be justified once the direction of money movements turns, and the reported figures so far point the other way. Whether full daily disclosures confirm the outflow run — or hint at stabilisation — is the next marker to watch.
A quantum-resistant account, targeted for 2028
Running on a longer clock is the XRP Ledger Foundation's proposed shift to quantum-resistant account keys, sketched out on Tuesday. Under the plan, users would be able to add a protected signing key and deactivate their existing one. The roadmap aims at a full migration by 2028.
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Development and testing are not finished, so any security benefit remains tied to successful execution. For holders, the two timelines sit side by side: fund flows track short-term capital movement, while the key migration is a long-horizon engineering task whose payoff depends on whether the proposal becomes a workable solution.
Lending protocol short of the votes it needs
Governance offers a nearer-term test. Media reports put validator support for the proposed LendingProtocol changes at 22 yes votes out of 35 — still short of the threshold required to activate. The tally documents genuine backing for the proposal, but activation hinges on further approvals. Until that bar is cleared, progress is best measured by the vote count itself.
Testnet and devnet get a date
The most concrete item on the calendar is the restart of testnet and devnet, scheduled for 25 November 2026 according to XRP Ledger documentation. The aim is to improve the stability of servers that hold the full ledger history. Ledger data in both test environments will be wiped in the process; the intervention is confined to testnet and devnet, leaving the mainnet untouched. For investors, the date matters as housekeeping for the testing infrastructure rather than as a market catalyst.
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Two yardsticks therefore frame XRP right now. In the short run, the market backdrop and the direction of ETF flows set the tone, with three consecutive days of redemptions weighing on the demand picture. On the technical side, the ledger's own checkpoints are sufficient validator approval for the lending protocol and the planned stability work on the test networks — each judged on its own stage of progress.
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