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This week is starting off with the same stuff that has been keeping the crypto market busy all of the previous year: regulatory clashes, changing liquidity and unexpected volatility traps. XRP just showed how quickly sentiment can change.  Now, Coinbase and the White House might be next. TL;DR XRP short sellers just got crushed big time, with a 16,559% liquidation imbalance in the long/short ratio. Binance slashes 22 pairs: Bitcoin, Ethereum and stablecoin pairs removed in liquidity purge. Pro-Ripple camp fires back at Coinbase after the White House threatens CLARITY bill withdrawal. XRP sellers took 16,559% short squeeze What happened on the XRP charts this morning was not a rally — it was a bloodbath on one side of the book. According to CoinGlass liquidation heatmap data, XRP short positions suffered $84,290 in liquidations versus just $509.63 in long-side wipeouts, creating an extreme 16,559% imbalance favoring bulls. On the TradingView chart, XRP/USD surged to over $1.98 before dropping back to $1.976. This happened while the total liquidations on the crypto market were pretty low for the hour, worth $2.54 million.  But XRP’s impact was strong and uneven. It was all about targeting weak-side leverage. Source: Coinglass Looking at the big picture, XRP’s daily setup is still in post-breakout consolidation mode, holding above the $1.90-$1.95 zone that used to be overhead resistance. This liquidation event suggests that whales are actively defending the new base, which might mean a broader squeeze toward the $2.04-$2.10 region in the days ahead. Bitcoin is still the big player when it comes to total notional liquidations with $1.02 million in the last hour, but XRP’s precision short squeeze — which is mostly isolated from the long-side impact — suggests that tactical accumulation is in the works. You Might Also Like Binance delisting wave hits 22 coins: Bitcoin’s been affected…

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Filed under: News - @ January 19, 2026 12:29 pm