XRP Whale Buying Meets a Patched Ledger: Two Stories, One Asset
Published on 10/10/2026 at 20:40 | Editorial boerse-global.de
Large XRP holders used the latest crypto market pullback as an entry point, according to on-chain data flagged by analyst Ali Charts. Over a 72-hour window reported today, these big addresses absorbed more than 45 million tokens worth roughly $63 million. The accumulation signals genuine dip demand, though it falls short of confirming a durable reversal on its own.
That buying sits awkwardly against price action. XRP is changing hands at $1.40, down 5.8% on the week, meaning the whale purchases have yet to offset the broader decline. What matters going forward is not merely whether large wallets add tokens, but whether that demand can eventually overpower prevailing sell pressure.
Investor behavior elsewhere tells a similar story of conviction under strain. Spot XRP ETFs have drawn a cumulative $1.80 billion since launch, yet the market value of their holdings sits about 13% below the capital invested. Sustained inflows and paper losses are coexisting. Since mid-September, the funds have logged only a single day of net outflows, suggesting holder commitment has so far proven sturdier than the token's price.
A Technical Line in the Sand
Analyst EGRAG Crypto laid out a conditional framework today, arguing XRP could slide as far as $1.20 while still preserving its long-term bullish structure. A sustained monthly close beneath that level would put the thesis in question. On the upside, he identifies $1.65 as the first meaningful level to reclaim. His view is explicitly conditional: whale accumulation alone cannot validate the bullish case, just as a further decline does not automatically invalidate it.
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Supply-side considerations are also coming into focus. Ripple reportedly plans to release up to 1 billion XRP from escrow on November 1, 2026. Such an unlock is not automatically a sale, so no immediate selling pressure can be inferred from the schedule itself.
Meanwhile, the Ledger's Plumbing Got a Fix
Running parallel to the price and flow debate, RippleX disclosed a security advisory yesterday that pairs reassurance with a notable caveat. The team patched a critical vulnerability and said it found no evidence of exploitation on public networks. A separate warning about delegating certain account permissions, however, remains in forceâtwo distinct risks that investors should not conflate.
The critical flaw involved payment processing. An integer overflow could have let attackers craft specially designed payments to mint additional spendable XRP. The bug had existed since 2015. According to media reports, Cayden Liao and Veria AI reported it on September 22, after which RippleX reproduced the issue. The fix shipped on September 25 with software version xrpld 3.4.1, meaning the technical remedy predated public disclosure. Crucially, the developers' caveat stands: no signs of exploitation on public networks were found, so the possibility of manipulation should not be equated with a proven attack.
RippleX also disclosed a flaw in batch transaction validation, addressed by the same software version, with the corresponding security change activated on the mainnet yesterday. Per the XRP Ledger, the affected batch extensions had not yet been enabled before the fix, so neither accounts nor balances on the mainnet were impacted. That statement applies specifically to the batch vulnerability and should not be generalized to all security matters.
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Delegated Permissions Carry Their Own Asterisk
Separately, PermissionDelegationV1_1 went live on Thursday, letting account holders grant specific permissions to other accounts without handing over their primary signing keys. The XRP Ledger's technical guidance, however, continues to warn against delegating the PaymentBurn permission. Under certain conditions it could allow token creation rather than solely permitting destruction. That warning holds until a separate fix is activatedâa restriction concerning a different function than the already-resolved integer overflow. The publication of security patches, in other words, does not render every known advisory moot.
What It Adds Up To
For holders, the picture is split. Large addresses are adding tokens, funds have largely kept their inflows running, and the ledger's most serious minting risk has been closed without any detected exploitationâwhile the ordering of fix and activation spared the mainnet from the batch bug. Yet price remains weak, and the PaymentBurn caveat is a live usage restriction rather than a resolved issue. Demand is providing a counterweight to the pullback. It has not yet proven XRP has moved past it.
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