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XRP ETFs Pull In $1.6 Billion as Nine-Day Inflow Streak Defies a Softer Price

By Isaac • August 31, 2026 11:16 pm • Comments

XRP’s price has cooled, but the money moving into spot XRP exchange-traded funds has not.

The funds have now recorded nine consecutive sessions of net inflows, a run that has pushed cumulative inflows since launch to roughly $1.6 billion. That divergence—steady fund demand against a softer token price—is the part of the story worth watching.

Decrypt reported that the products added $26.2 million on August 28. More than $725 million arrived during the nine-session streak alone, according to SoSoValue data cited in the report, while cumulative net inflows reached roughly $1.6 billion and daily additions during the run ranged from about $2.4 million to more than $28 million.

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The reported milestone is summarized here:

The streak has held even while XRP traded near $1.39, down 2.7% on the day and 7.6% over the week in the snapshot cited by Decrypt. ETF buyers are not necessarily calling a bottom.

Demand for the regulated investment wrapper is moving on a different timetable than the token’s short-term price. An ETF share can appeal to an institution because it fits existing brokerage, custody, reporting and compliance systems.

The buyer does not need to open a crypto exchange account or manage private keys. For some allocators, the wrapper is the product.

The latest holder disclosures add another layer. Cointelegraph summarized data shared by Bloomberg Intelligence analyst James Seyffart showing Goldman Sachs, Jane Street and Millennium Management among the top XRP ETF holders:

Names in a 13F filing need context. Market makers and trading firms may hold positions for hedging, liquidity or arbitrage rather than a simple long-term directional bet.

Their presence still shows that XRP products have become part of the institutional market structure, far beyond a retail side show.

The contrast with Bitcoin funds is also notable. Decrypt said spot Bitcoin ETFs had just ended their own nine-day inflow streak while Ethereum products continued to add money.

Capital is moving across the major crypto wrappers instead of following one uniform market-wide line.

For XRP holders, the encouraging signal is persistence. Nine straight positive sessions during a weak week for the token suggests the ETF channel can absorb demand even when momentum traders are less enthusiastic.

But flows are not a promise. They can reverse, and a growing ETF asset base does not guarantee that XRP will rise on any particular schedule.

The clean takeaway is narrower: regulated XRP exposure is drawing sustained capital, and institutional participation is deepening before the spot price gives bulls the confirmation they want.

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