XRP Today: Price, Why It’s Moving and the Latest News

XRP was little changed over the past 24 hours: XRP traded at $1.39 (-0.3%) as of 14:07 UTC on Monday, October 12, 2026. Bitcoin was -0.1% at $82,869 and the total crypto market -1.8%, so XRP did better than the market. 29 of the 40 largest coins were higher.

Why is XRP flat today? What the numbers show

• Versus the market. XRP outperformed the market by 1.5 percentage points (-0.3% versus -1.8% for all of crypto), so part of the move is market-wide and part is specific to XRP.
• Versus Bitcoin. XRP matched Bitcoin by 0.2 percentage points over 24 hours, and ranked 35th of 40 large coins by 24-hour change. Bitcoin dominance is 59.0%.
• Trading activity. 24-hour trading volume was $1.5 billion, equal to 1.7% of XRP's $87.7 billion market value.
• 24-hour range. XRP traded between $1.38 (13:35 UTC) and $1.42 (17:25 UTC, Oct 11), a 2.8% swing. The low came after the high. The current price sits near the bottom of that range.
• The bigger picture. Over 7 days XRP is -7.9% and over 30 days +1.6%. The 30-day range is $1.27 to $1.60. XRP is 61.9% below its all-time high of $3.65.
• Sentiment. The Crypto Fear & Greed Index reads 69 (Greed), up from 61 a day earlier.

XRP, Bitcoin and the market at a glance

The XRP stories behind today's move

What CryptoNewsInsights reported in the past 48 hours:

• XRP Ledger Foundation Confirms Emergency Patch for 18.45T XRP Bug — XRP Ledger Foundation confirms it bypassed the standard amendment vote to patch a 2015 bug that could have minted 18.45 trillion XRP. No XRP was minted.
• XRP Ledger passes 13M x402 AI payments, RippleX says — The XRP Ledger has passed 13 million x402 agentic payments across 166-168 merchants, per RippleX's J. Ayo Akinyele, with ex-Ripple lead Chandler Fang eyeing...

The live XRP price, chart and converter are on our XRP price page. For the rest of the market, see our Markets page and the XRP news desk.

How this report is made

CryptoNewsInsights calculates every figure in this report from CoinGecko market data recorded at 14:07 UTC on Monday, October 12, 2026. Stablecoins and wrapped or staked versions of other coins are left out of the rankings. Changes are over the previous 24 hours unless stated. The report describes what the price did and which measurable factors moved with it; it does not claim a single cause and does not predict prices. It is not financial advice.