{"id":27513,"date":"2026-05-04T21:38:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T21:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/xrp-price-breaks-above-1-40-on-volume-surge-as-bitcoin-reclaims-80000\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T21:38:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T21:38:17","slug":"xrp-price-breaks-above-1-40-on-volume-surge-as-bitcoin-reclaims-80000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/xrp-price-breaks-above-1-40-on-volume-surge-as-bitcoin-reclaims-80000\/","title":{"rendered":"XRP price breaks above $1.40 on volume surge as Bitcoin reclaims $80,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"post-detail__content blocks\">\n<p class=\"is-style-lead\">XRP price climbed from $1.3840 to $1.4065 in early Asia trading on May 4 on a sharp pickup in volume, breaking through resistance at $1.40 alongside Bitcoin\u2019s return above $80,000.<\/p>\n<div id=\"cn-block-summary-block_fef03949021d32dfb50ab42a4494cee0\" class=\"cn-block-summary\">\n<div class=\"cn-block-summary__nav tabs\">\n        <span class=\"tabs__item is-selected\">Summary<\/span>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"cn-block-summary__content\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Volume expanded into the $1.40 breakout on May 4, confirming real positioning rather than a low-liquidity push.<\/li>\n<li>The $1.45 level is the critical structural barrier: 36.8 billion XRP, or 60% of supply, sits at a $1.44 average cost basis per Glassnode.<\/li>\n<li>Standard Chartered projects $4 to $8 billion in additional XRP ETF inflows if the CLARITY Act clears the Senate Banking Committee before May 21.<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- .cn-block-summary --><\/p>\n<p>XRP price broke above $1.40 for the first time in several days on May 4, alongside Bitcoin\u2019s move above $80,000. As crypto.news reported, Standard Chartered analyst Geoffrey Kendrick projected that Senate Banking Committee advancement of the CLARITY Act could unlock $4 to $8 billion in additional XRP ETF inflows, placing the week-of-May-11 markup as the primary event that could break the $1.45 supply wall. <\/p>\n<p>The $1.45 level has rejected XRP four times in 2026, including a brief $1.50 excursion on April 17 after Rakuten integrated XRP payments for 44 million Japanese users.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- .cn-block-related-link --><\/p>\n<p>Glassnode <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/glassnode.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">data<\/a> confirms roughly 36.8 billion XRP, approximately 60% of total circulating supply, is held at an average cost basis of $1.44, creating a mechanical ceiling at every approach. Traders are now watching whether XRP can hold $1.40 as support and clear $1.41 to $1.42, with a failure back below $1.40 signalling a reversed breakout.<\/p>\n<p>As crypto.news documented, Standard Chartered cut its 2026 XRP target from $8 to $2.80 in February on macro headwinds, making the CLARITY Act catalyst the primary variable for any re-rating this year. As crypto.news tracked, XRP spot ETFs posted $81.63 million in April inflows across a 20-day streak that broke on April 30, before the broader market recovery on May 4 brought renewed buying interest.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- .cn-block-related-link --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>XRP price climbed from $1.3840 to $1.4065 in early Asia trading on May 4 on a sharp pickup in volume, breaking through resistance at $1.40 alongside Bitcoin\u2019s return above $80,000.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27514,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27513\/revisions\/27514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}