XRP News Today: Official Listing On Regulated Exchange and Lagging Prices Amidst A Network Surge

For the past three months of 2025, XRP has witnessed a massive surge in on-chain activity, nearly 400% greater than what was previously recorded in early 2025. Amidst the increasing network activity, XRP shares the good news that it has been officially listed on the regulated exchange trading platform OSL Hong Kong.

OSL Hong Kong, a publicly listed and regulated digital asset exchange, has officially listed $XRP.

Deposits and withdrawals are now open, with $XRP available to professional investors via Flash Trade and OTC in pairs including XRP/HKD and XRP/USD. pic.twitter.com/pnT5zlaBVP

— XRP Update (@XrpUdate) December 7, 2025

With XRP gaining a much-needed regulatory clarity and boosted network activity, the asset may be targeting further growth in the coming days. However, industry experts are speculating that the increased network activity may not contribute to price improvements at the moment. To know what is happening around the world for XRP, stay tuned with this article, as we try to uncover the details.

Why XRP’s 400% Network Surge Isn’t Lifting Prices

Even though there is a significant increase in the network throughput, this is not reflected in the price movement. This discrepancy between the network throughput rate and the price raises several questions regarding the future of XRP prices.

There is a trend where the prices are having fresh declining resistance levels. This is not an ideal scenario as declining resistance levels indicate that the prices are moving downwards at a slow but steady pace. Additionally, XRP is failing to meet these resistance levels, let alone surpassing them.

It seems that the increase in momentum courtesy of the network activity has not entered the market yet. If this is the case, then XRP’s price is at a worrying point where it is slowly declining over time. This will soon reach a boiling point where all hell breaks loose, and XRP may be in for a spike in the downward direction.

With XRP showing huge potential last week, this bearish divergence has left everyone surprised. When the market activity has boosted significantly, but prices lag behind, it is an indicator of an upcoming correction and trend reversal. This could lead to fear gripping the market, and consequently, this could cause premature market exits, further pulling the prices downwards.

XRP Hits a Major Win: Official Hong Kong Exchange Listing

XRP attained a major win with its official listing on the OSL Hong Kong exchange. This is a highly regulated market in Hong Kong, and gaining entry into this market comes with several perks.

For starters, since XRP is now listed on an official trading platform in Hong Kong, the number of retail investors and institutional investors who were previously reluctant to push their capital into a risk asset like XRP will have renewed confidence in doing so.

This capital inflow is instrumental in tightening the market’s volatility and making the prices more stable. With fresh capital being injected into the asset, the earlier throughput increases further, and this the price could catch up with the increasing throughput and save itself from the bearish divergence pattern that is raising concern among investors.

There are three main trading pairs listed by OSL Exchange: XRP/HKD, XRP/USD, and XRP/USDt. This is yet another added benefit. For investors who are fiat-native and belong to Hong Kong can choose the XRP/HKD option. At the same time, institutional investors who are looking for larger opportunities may opt for the XRP/USD pair. For those retail investors who are interested in a crypto-to-crypto exchange model, the XRP/USDt pair offers great flexibility.

This triple approach to listing XRP will greatly boost the trading dynamics of XRP on the OSL exchange. In addition to boosting the trading dynamics, there are fresh opportunities for triangular arbitrage strategies as well. All of these factors will contribute to the overall increment in asset capital utilization by XRP in the Hong Kong exchange.

Can Fresh Capital from Hong Kong Save XRP’s Price?

Both developments come at a time when XRP is in dire need of crucial support. The surge in network activity without a significant impact on price movement is detrimental to the asset’s future price outlook. However, the fresh capital inflow from the Hong Kong exchange may change this condition for XRP.

With the broader crypto market showing increased weakness and XRP dropping down and hovering around the $2.06 mark is not an ideal scenario for the asset. With bearish trends dominating the higher timeframes and the market becoming predominantly sideways, XRP’s position can be stated as one that is highly vulnerable to external market forces. These external forces can include investor sentiment, macroeconomic developments, and broader crypto market crashes.

There is much-needed support for price at the moment as XRP is experiencing significant selling pressure. At the moment of writing, the key support level is located at the $2.00 mark. If the decline continues further, there are much weaker support levels at $1.90 to $1.95. Since both these support levels are below the $2.00 mark, breaking them will eventually strengthen the bear market, and XRP may be in for a longer market correction phase.

Since XRP is range-bound at the moment, which indicates that there is no significant upper hand to either the bulls or the bears, the latest regulatory developments can indeed help XRP recover from the current price position and improve its footing in the journey towards the upper resistance levels posed at $2.20 and $2.50.

XRP Outlook: Will Price Catch Up with Network Activity?

The story of whether XRP will reclaim its past levels in the $2.17 to $2.19 range is one that will reveal itself in the days to come. The fresh capital inflow from the Hong Kong market is a promising event. However, if larger factors come into play, the capital injection may not be sufficient to pull XRP from the trench it is in now.

With spot XRP ETFs accumulating strong institutional capital in the US amounting to nearly 897.35 million US dollars, and the freshly opened triplets on the OSL Hong Kong exchange, the larger picture is somewhat positive. The bearish divergence could be a small market correction that is hand-picking the speculative positions out of the order book. With such increased hopes, the future of XRP remains largely uncertain.