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Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse has described XRP as the company’s “North Star,” as the token approaches a potential breakout decision within the next 24 to 48 hours.
Garlinghouse reposted a message from Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, who said a CEO’s daily responsibility is to “communicate and re-communicate the North Star. Again and again.”
“100% All roads lead back to Ripple’s North Star, XRP,” Garlinghouse said, reinforcing XRP’s role in Ripple’s strategy for cross-border payments and XRP Ledger development amid ongoing global adoption efforts.
Ripple’s partnership with OKX expands RLUSD to 280+ trading pairs, enabling traders to use RLUSD as institutional-grade margin collateral for derivatives, including perpetual futures where available.
Ripple launched RLUSD in December 2024, and the stablecoin now has a market capitalization of over $1.5 billion.
The OKX integration is positioned to strengthen RLUSD’s usage and liquidity as it seeks to compete with Tether’s USDT and Circle’s USDC.
“As RLUSD adoption accelerates, we’re seeing strong demand across both crypto-native and institutional markets, particularly for high-quality collateral,” Ripple SVP of Stablecoins Jack McDonald said.
Through OKX’s unified order book, OKX’s 120 million customers can use RLUSD to trade and collateralize positions across both spot and derivatives markets. Deposits and withdrawals are enabled via the XRP Ledger, with direct minting and redemption.
On the price chart, XRP’s symmetrical triangle has fully closed as the upper descending trendline and rising lower boundary converge at the current price, forming the “apex.”
The analysis indicates XRP must make a decision today or tomorrow, noting there is “no more room left in the pattern.”
Immediate resistance is identified at the 20 EMA ($1.4030) and the 50 EMA ($1.4126), which sit just above current levels. The Supertrend at $1.2993 is cited as the floor below.
Support is listed at $1.2993 (Supertrend), then $1.28. Resistance is described as clustering at $1.4030 (20 EMA), then $1.4681, then $1.5209 (100 EMA), and $1.7573 (200 EMA).
The breakout trigger is a move above $1.42. The pattern is described as invalid if XRP breaks below $1.37.
The next 24 to 48 hours are framed as the period likely to determine the outcome.
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