Ripple CTO Emeritus David Schwartz said he has no plans to launch an independent startup based on the XRP Ledger after his role change at the end of 2025, joking that he is "too lazy" to do so. He also shared XRPL node performance data from the past 14 days and later described a scenario where ultra-low latency between two same–data center servers could be flagged by XRPL protections as a DDoS-like pattern. XRP was cited as trading around $1.30 in the report.

XRP climbed back to $1.34 over the past 24 hours, while derivatives liquidations skewed heavily toward shorts. Short liquidations hit $2.03 million versus just under $161,700 in longs, creating a 1,237% long-short liquidation imbalance. Key levels highlighted include resistance near $1.35 and support around $1.28, with a Tokyo conference set to begin tomorrow where XRP will be a major topic.

On April 5, 2026, Michael Saylor responded to Peter Schiff's warning about Strategy (MSTR) by sharing a performance chart that tracks major assets since August 2020. Saylor argued that Bitcoin has delivered a 36% annualized return in that period, versus 16% for gold and 14% for the S&P 500. The article also notes Strategy's average Bitcoin entry price near $75,700 and an unrealized loss of about $3 billion at a BTC price around $67,000.

XRP and Bitcoin stayed under pressure in early April as WTI crude moved above $113 per barrel and risk sentiment weakened. XRP fell more than 2% to below $1.30, while Bitcoin slipped 0.3% and remained under $67,000. Traders are focusing on the April 9 U.S. inflation data, with expectations that it could shape volatility and positioning across crypto.

As of April 5, 2026, XRPL addresses rose to 8,189,798 while XRP traded around $1.30-$1.33 after falling more than 60% from about $3.65 in July 2025. Separately, security commentary tied to the April 1, 2026 Drift Protocol hack raised unverified claims about DPRK-linked developers across projects, and on-chain data showed a 0.0257 BTC move from a Dec. 12, 2012 wallet with an LTH SOPR of 4,913. Bitcoin meanwhile stayed in a tight $66,900-$67,300 range ahead of the April 9 Core PCE release.

Adam Back, Blockstream's CEO, pushed back on proposals to freeze about 4 million inactive BTC as concerns grow over a potential quantum-computing "Q-Day." The debate, which also involves analyst Willy Woo, centers on whether Bitcoin should block spending from older vulnerable addresses or leave the protocol unchanged even if quantum attackers could access lost coins.

XRP/BTC ended March 2026 with a monthly close under 0.0000215 BTC and below the Bollinger Bands midline, shifting that level from support to resistance. With the indicator’s focus moving toward the lower band at 0.00001138 BTC, the chart setup implies about 41% additional downside versus current levels.

XRP ended the latest month with a close below the Bollinger Bands midline at $1.99, keeping the lower band near $0.62 as the main downside reference. Separately, 900 million DOGE (about $83 million) was withdrawn from Bithumb to unknown wallets within one hour, while Bitcoin entered April holding above $68,000 as traders watch macro and policy events for direction.

Ripple reduced RLUSD supply by about 128 million tokens in a short window at the end of March 2026, via multiple treasury burn transactions. The largest single burn was 79 million RLUSD, and the drop coincided with Q1 closing activity. RLUSD's market cap later slipped below $1.4 billion, ranking it ninth among dollar-pegged stablecoins by market value.