XRP Edges Bitcoin Across Korea’s Top Platforms

A popular wealth-focused YouTube host says XRP briefly became South Korea’s most-traded asset by value, overtaking Bitcoin on both Upbit and Bithumb. This particular claim matters because South Korea’s retail-heavy crypto market can generate concentrated demand that occasionally pushes local prices above global levels.

According to Dr. Kamilah Stevenson, XRP trading volume on one of the exchanges rose about 273% in a day, reaching roughly $1.84 billion. She stressed that the figure represents the dollar value of trades, not proof that Korean investors hold more XRP than Bitcoin.

Semiconductor money may have rotated into XRP

The more striking part of the story was reporting that some buying power came from South Korean semiconductor stocks. Chipmakers are among the country’s most closely watched and widely held public companies, making any shift from those shares into crypto notable.

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“That is a comparison being made,” Stepvenson said, arguing that investors selling an existing position to buy XRP may be expressing a stronger conviction than those deploying uninvested cash. Still, she acknowledged that she could not independently verify how much of the XRP inflow actually came from semiconductor-stock sales.