XRP Weekly, Sunday 19 July 2026

XRP has broken its year-long bear market trendline, and the CLARITY Act is now in a straight race against the August recess.

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A note on this week’s schedule: Sundays with Sensei moves to tomorrow. I will be live Monday evening, with the private event for newsletter members after the show on Monday night.

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This Week

XRP spent the week pinned near $1.09, ranging between $1.05 and $1.12 while the wider market bled about 4 percent, and yet the chart quietly did something it has not managed in a year: it closed above the bear market trendline. Around that move, Washington’s biggest crypto bill slipped again, Ripple confirmed its payments software can speak the banking network’s language, the XRP Ledger crossed 8 million funded accounts, and a misread DTCC document convinced half of X that $5 had been “confirmed.”

Four stories carried the week. Here is what happened, what actually matters for XRP, and what is noise.

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The Consensus

• ⚖️ The CLARITY Act slips again as the merged Senate text misses its window and a Trump meeting with Senate Republicans fails to settle the ethics fight.

• 🏦 The XRP Ledger passes 8 million funded accounts and Ripple confirms its payments software supports SWIFT messaging, with a catch worth understanding.

• 🏛️ XRP enters DTCC’s collateral rulebook, where a $5 threshold decides how usable it is as institutional collateral. It is plumbing, not a price call.

• 📈 The XRP ETF streak breaks, then bounces back with July’s biggest single-day inflow as cumulative demand nears $1.49 billion.

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The Numbers

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The Chart Watch

XRP Is Above the Bear Market Trendline. Now It Needs the Momentum.