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Payment volume and transaction throughput are sharply and unusually increasing on the XRP Ledger, but the price is still mostly unimpressed. The reason this move is worth considering is precisely that disconnect. XRP Ledger activity has skyrocketed in recent weeks, according to on-chain data. In more extreme cases, payment activity has spiked hundreds of percent in a single day, with reports of 400% jumps in transaction volume during peak bursts. XRP Ledger’s charts show payment volume ramping aggressively despite no equivalent price breakout. Serious activity range Daily transactions are now pushing into the multi-million range, with some days approaching 3 million transactions, representing a major expansion in usage compared to previous periods. Krueger Predicts Imminent Bitcoin All-Time High Will Shiba Inu (SHIB) Return to Bottom Again? Bitcoin’s $70,000 Position Gets Complicated, Dogecoin (DOGE) Has Never Been This Calm: Crypto Market Review XRP/USDT Chart by TradingView What is the true cause of this? Unfortunately for us, the retail hype doesn’t have the answer. It is most likely the use of infrastructure. The following are the main sources of this surge: remittance flows and cross-border payments, activity involving stablecoins (such as RLUSD transfers), automated programs and bots running on the XRPL DEX, and tokenized asset activity and liquidity routing. XRPL utilization layer XRPL is being utilized more and more as a transaction layer, in addition to a network of speculative assets. There has been a structural change, as payments now make up a large portion of transactions, sometimes surpassing 50% of all activity. You Might Also Like The catch is that not all activities are created equal. Algorithmic trading and bot-driven liquidity operations, particularly on XRPL’s decentralized exchange, where market-making strategies inflate transaction counts without necessarily adding real demand, are responsible for a portion of the spike. As a result, some of…

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