Data shows that open interest in XRP has risen alongside funding rates turning red, a sign that traders have opened new short positions tied to the currency.
XRP has seen a surge in open interest recently
As noted by CryptoQuant community analyst Maartunn on Sunday X mailXRP’s open interest has seen a sharp rise. the “Open interest“Here refers to an index that measures the total number of cryptocurrency-related positions currently open on all centralized exchanges. The measure includes both short and long positions.
As the chart shared by Maartunn shows, open interest for XRP rose to $943 million over the weekend.
The Funding Rates were red alongside this Open Interest jump | Source: @JA_Maartun on X
Naturally, an increase in the index indicates a jump in speculative activity among traders in the financial derivatives market. Now, what kind of bets were traders opening? The answer to this can be deduced from Financing ratewhich tracks the amount of periodic fees that holders of financial derivative contracts pay to each other.
From the chart, it is clear that the funding rate remained negative during the rise in open interest, suggesting that short investors were paying a premium over long investors. In other words, the new positions that have appeared are slanted in the downward direction.
In general, a sharp rise in open interest can lead to market volatility, as the risk… Group qualifiers can go up. The side most likely to fall under such pressure tends to be the more dominant side. Since the increase in new open interest came in tandem with the red funding rate, a short squeeze has become more likely.
XRP has seen a bounce over the past day, so short liquidation could have played a role in that. As the analyst highlighted in New mailHowever, open interest remained at high levels even after the recovery.
The latest data for the XRP Open Interest | Source: @JA_Maartun on X
Currently, open interest for XRP stands at $952 million, which is higher than it was on Sunday. Thus, it appears that an additional influx of speculative activity has occurred in the market. “Open interest has not fully reset, and the price is now taking advantage of the resistance,” Martin noted. “That’s not the kind of structure I want to move beyond.”
XRP is not the only one to find a rebound in the past day; The rest of the cryptocurrency sector also rose. For example, Bitcoin has risen more than 4% in the past 24 hours.
As with XRP, the rally was accompanied by a rise in open interest, a possible sign that leverage is driving the market at the moment. The analyst explained, “These clusters are usually fragile. About 75% of them tend to return to their origins.”
How the 24-hour percentage change in the metric has fluctuated for Bitcoin | Source: @JA_Maartun on X
Ripple price
At the time of writing, XRP is trading around $1.35, unchanged from one week ago.
Looks like the price of the coin has climbed during the past day | Source: XRPUSDT on TradingView
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