XRP Price Caught Between $231M Whale Selling and ETF Inflows

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August 27, 2026

XRP price is trying to reconcile two conflicting signals coming from the asset. One points to distribution. The other points to accumulation at scale. Both are happening at once, and that’s not a coincidence.

CryptoQuant-linked analyst Darkfost flagged a 231 million XRP withdrawal from Binance in a single day this week, worth $330-335 million at the time, the largest such move in about six months. Whale wallets have also sent close to 1.45 billion XRP to Binance over the trailing 30 days.

Those figures look like sell-side ammunition even as some of that liquidity cycles back off-exchange. Meanwhile, seven U.S. spot XRP ETFs have pulled in $1.55 billion in cumulative inflows, with August alone doubling July’s pace.