Ripple (XRP) News Today: October 26

XRP is above BNB after a considerable weekly surge.

Ripple lastly closed the Hidden Highway deal, which turned large information on the finish of the week because the prime dealer now goes underneath a special identify.

This and extra attention-grabbing information from the previous week or so shall be detailed within the following article.

Hidden Highway and Different Large Ripple Offers

Though the Hidden Highway buy, price $1.25 billion, was initially introduced in April, the precise conclusion was highlighted on Friday. In a statement on X, the Brad Garlinghouse-led firm famous that the brokerage platform will now be referred to as Ripple Prime.

Which means the corporate is now the primary within the crypto business to “personal and function a world, multi-asset prime dealer – bringing the promise of digital belongings to institutional clients at scale.”

Teuncrium’s CEO weighed in on the matter, indicating that Ripple is “constructing the brand new Wall Road with XRP and Hidden Highway.”

Garlinghouse took it to X to highlight the corporate’s 5 large strikes since 2023. Regardless of the continuing stress from the SEC lawsuit on the time, Ripple made two important purchases in 2023 and 2024: particularly, the acquisitions of Metaco (a Swiss-based crypto custody supplier) and Normal Custody & Belief Firm, an enterprise-grade, regulated platform for cryptocurrencies.

2025 turned an much more impactful 12 months for Ripple as, other than Hidden Highway, it additionally introduced offers to amass Rail for $200 million and GTreasury for $1 billion.

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Moreover, Evennorth Holdings, a newly shaped Nevada company, launched and entered a enterprise mixture settlement with Armada Acquisition Corp II to allow institutional adoption of Ripple’s XRP.

XRP Again to 4th

According to the aforementioned bulletins from Ripple, the challenge’s native token is about to shut with a considerable 11.5% weekly surge that has pushed its value to a multi-week peak of $2.65. This has helped its market cap soar to nearly $159 billion, which makes XRP the fourth-largest cryptocurrency by surpassing BNB.

What’s notably attention-grabbing about this value surge is that it comes at a time when whales have been seemingly taking profits off the table with sizeable sell-offs. In distinction, the favored meme coin and futures dealer going by the X deal with James Wynn said he was becoming a member of the XRP Military with a big funding. Wynn famous that he went “down the rabbit gap of XRP” and decided it might “revolutionize the banking programs.”

Well-liked analyst Ali Martinez picked up right this moment’s value transfer from XRP and outlined the following important resistance on its means towards $3.00. He additionally introduced up the primary line of protection in case this rally is one other fakeout.

Two key ranges for $XRP:

– Assist at $2.15
– Resistance at $2.80 pic.twitter.com/HbfNSNGZFs

— Ali (@ali_charts) October 26, 2025