{"id":77917,"date":"2026-03-26T16:46:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T16:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=77917"},"modified":"2026-03-26T16:46:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T16:46:33","slug":"xrp-plunges-4-as-leverage-drops-78-what-is-going-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=77917","title":{"rendered":"XRP Plunges 4% As Leverage Drops 78%: What Is Going On?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>XRP<\/strong> <a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"XRP\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/XRP-USD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/xrp\/usd\">XRP<\/a>) is down 4% on the day, despite Binance leverage ratios plunging 78% from 0.59 in mid-July 2025 to just 0.13 now as speculative positions flush out and the derivatives market resets.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Leverage Unwind<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Binance\u2019s Estimated Leverage Ratio for XRP has <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoquant.com\/insights\/quicktake\/69c4a13f8d720a25909ce3d7-XRP-Derivatives-on-Binance-See-Major-Reset-as-Leverage-and-Open-Interest-Sink\">collapsed<\/a> from around 0.59 in mid-July to 0.13, indicating that most highly leveraged positions have been flushed out.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Analysts calculate this ratio by dividing an exchange\u2019s open interest by its coin reserves to measure average leverage used.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, XRP\u2019s open interest on Binance stands at only $375 million, significantly lower than peaks recorded over the past year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe main takeaway is that speculative pressure has eased significantly,\u201d explained <strong>Amr Taha<\/strong>, an analyst at CryptoQuant.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBinance\u2019s XRP derivatives market now looks much less overheated, potentially creating a cleaner setup for its next major move,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Liquidation Risk Has Dropped<\/h3>\n<p>In theory, this deleveraging is a positive &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/03\/51488738\/xrp-plunges-4-as-leverage-drops-78-what-is-going-on?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"XRP\" plunges as leverage drops what is going on>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) is down 4% on the day, despite Binance leverage ratios plunging 78% from 0.59 in mid-July 2025 to just 0.13 now as speculative positions flush out and the derivatives market resets. The Leverage Unwind Binance\u2019s Estimated Leverage Ratio for XRP has collapsed from around 0.59 in mid-July to 0.13, indicating that most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-77917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}