XRP rallies 8% as whales accumulate over $2B in token

Whale wallets loaded up on XRP at a pace that would make most institutional investors do a double-take. On-chain data from Santiment, flagged by analyst Ali Martinez, shows large XRP holders collectively added roughly 1.54 billion tokens over a 96-hour window ending September 19, 2026. At mid-September prices, that haul was worth approximately $2.2 billion. The buying spree coincided with an 8.22% price recovery, lifting XRP from lows near $1.24 back above $1.40, with intraday highs touching the $1.45 to $1.48 range. What actually happened The dip that preceded the rally had a clear catalyst: a setback for the CLARITY Act in the U.S. Senate. The recovery tracked a technical chart pattern analysts call an inverse head-and-shoulders formation, a shape that looks roughly like three valleys with the middle one being deepest. During the recovery phase, daily trading volumes fluctuated between $2.6 billion and $3.4 billion. The large wallet cohort tracked by Santiment went from holding approximately 8.27 billion XRP to roughly 9.81 billion in those four days. The Binance wrinkle CryptoQuant data showed approximately 1.6 billion XRP flowing into Binance over the 30 days preceding the repo...