November 24, 2020 | AtoZ Markets – Over the past week, Ripple (XRP) has risen in price by 142.3%. The cryptocurrency broke the maximum since September 2018 level of $0.4974 on Sunday, November 22.
At the time of writing, XRP is trading at $0.6.
The market capitalization of Ripple has risen to $28 billion. According to CoinMarketCap, for the month, growth was 171.8%.
Why is Ripple’s XRP rallying?
According to analysts at Santiment, the likely catalyst for the XRP rally was an increase in the number of daily active addresses. On November 22, the cryptocurrency rose in price by 27% against the background of this indicator reaching its highest value (24,408) since May 1.
😍 #Ripple's price skyrocketed +27% today, and the amount of unique addresses transacting on the $XRP network in a single day (24,408) was the highest output since May 1st. See what other metrics will foreshadow where price movement is heading from here. https://t.co/oHasvM3nJC pic.twitter.com/R45tMNn0O1
— Santiment (@santimentfeed) November 22, 2020
Another potential reason that gave rise to the token could be the activity of the developer company Ripple Labs. In its third-quarter 2020 report, it reported a $45.55 million acquisition of XRP as part of its buyback program to maintain healthy markets.
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In November, Ripple Labs filed a trademark application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office for a product called Paystring. It is described as a tool for receiving and sending money transfers.
The new function for the execution of Ethereum smart contracts, available on the Ripple blockchain since November 18, could influence the mood of traders. We are talking about a solution called Hooks, the launch of which was announced by the main developer of the project Wits Wind.
Time to spin up your own local XRP ledger with the Hooks amendment enabled 😉
— WietseWind { 𝚡𝚛𝚙𝚕𝙳𝚎𝚟: 𝚝𝚛𝚞𝚎 } (@WietseWind) November 18, 2020
After months of discussing, tinkering, designing, discussing some more, building (99% Richard, hats off to him!), testing, etc. it's super exciting to publish this 😎🍻https://t.co/dfOK5KVgy3
Ripple Labs also released a new version of the XUMM Wallet payment application.
The XRP rate could be positively affected by the generally positive sentiment in the cryptocurrency market. Bitcoin is currently trading at $18,973.
Bitfinex Hourly BTC/USD Chart by TradingView.
Recall that on November 23, Ripple opened the vacancy of a senior director for interaction with central banks as part of work on projects for digital currencies of regulators.
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