{"id":8227,"date":"2025-01-17T12:31:53","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T12:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=8227"},"modified":"2025-01-17T12:31:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T12:31:53","slug":"xrp-overtakes-btc-in-key-coinbase-metric-whats-driving-the-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=8227","title":{"rendered":"XRP Overtakes BTC in Key Coinbase Metric: What\u2019s Driving the Surge?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>XRP, the third-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization ranking, surpassed bitcoin (BTC) to become the most-traded digital asset on\u00a0Coinbase. This indicates that American crypto investors are increasingly interested in Ripple\u2019s native coin.<\/p>\n<p>The sudden spark in interest comes days after the company\u2019s CEO, Brad Garlinghouse, met with United States President-elect Donald Trump to discuss including other assets besides BTC in the potential crypto reserve.<\/p>\n<h2>XRP Overtakes BTC<\/h2>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/en\/exchanges\/coinbase-exchange\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\">on-chain data<\/a> from CoinGecko, the XRP\/USD pair had a 24-hour traded volume of over $1.67 billion at press time, representing 23.57% of the total volume on Coinbase. This metric surpasses the BTC\/USD pair, which held more than $1.4 billion, signaling 19.84% of the total traded volume on the crypto exchange.<\/p>\n<p>Conversely, BTC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/en\/exchanges\/binance\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\">retains<\/a> dominance on the leading crypto exchange, Binance, while XRP comes second. However, Binance remains off-limit to American investors.<\/p>\n<p>Several factors likely contributed to XRP\u2019s widespread appeal to U.S. and global investors. Donald Trump\u2019s upcoming inauguration as the next U.S. president will likely bring nationwide acceptance to crypto assets like BTC. A recent report <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/trump-plans-to-designate-crypto-as-a-national-priority-report\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">confirmed<\/a> that the president-elect could prioritize cryptocurrencies founded in the country, such as XRP, SOL, and USDC.<\/p>\n<p>There are also clues that Trump\u2019s administration will endorse a spot XRP exchange-traded fund (ETF) for local investors to gain exposure to the third-largest cryptocurrency. The latest data on Polymarket shows that <a href=\"https:\/\/polymarket.com\/event\/ripple-etf-approved-in-2025\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\">67% of bettors<\/a> expect an XRP-backed ETP this year. Investment firms like Bitwise, Canary Capital, and WisdomTree have filed for XRP ETF approval with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).<\/p>\n<h2>Effect on XRP\u2019s Value<\/h2>\n<p>As investors flooded the XRP market, the cryptocurrency\u2019s value soared more than 4% to $3.31. Notably, this <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/ripple-missed-new-ath-by-just-1-can-xrp-break-through-today\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">brings<\/a> the asset\u2019s price closer to its all-time high (ATH) of $3.4 recorded in January 2018.<\/p>\n<p>As seen in BTC, market watchers believe that Trump\u2019s inclusion of XRP in the country\u2019s potential strategic reserve will push the digital asset\u2019s value to new frontiers.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/xrp-overtakes-btc-in-key-coinbase-metric-whats-driving-the-surge\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">XRP Overtakes BTC in Key Coinbase Metric: What\u2019s Driving the Surge?<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">CryptoPotato<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>XRP, the third-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization ranking, surpassed bitcoin (BTC) to become the most-traded digital asset on\u00a0Coinbase. This indicates that American crypto investors are increasingly interested in Ripple\u2019s native coin. The sudden spark in interest comes days after the company\u2019s CEO, Brad Garlinghouse, met with United States President-elect Donald Trump to discuss including other [&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-8227","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\/8227","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=8227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}