Ripple spent more than $2 billion in 2025 on acquisitions including Hidden Road, Rail, GTreasury and Palisade, aiming to position XRP at the core of global financial infrastructure. These deals build on earlier purchases of Metaco, Fortress Trust and Standard Custody from 2023 and 2024, expanding Ripple's reach in custody, brokerage, payments and liquidity services.

Shiba Inu has advanced about 11% since Monday, lifting its price from $0.00000527 to roughly $0.00000595 as the second week of March progresses. Bollinger Bands on the weekly chart indicate potential for a further 22% climb toward approximately $0.00000760. Historical reactions to the lower band since September 2025, including rebounds after tests in October and January, reinforce the current bullish setup.

Rich‑list data for early 2026 indicates that the largest 10 XRP addresses control over 11 billion coins, while the top 50 wallets together hold around 40–45% of the circulating supply. With only about 60 billion XRP actually in circulation and the remainder locked in Ripple‑linked escrow, a mix of corporate, exchange and whale wallets dominates ownership, as around 2,200 XRP is enough to reach the top 10% of addresses and roughly 46,000 XRP places a wallet in the global top 1%.

In March 2026, the XRP Ledger rolled out version 3.1.2, a maintenance-focused update that fixes a critical flaw in the Batch amendment which had threatened roughly $80 billion in network value. The patch follows an emergency v3.1.1 release and comes as XRP changes hands around $1.41, with technical indicators such as RSI and MACD suggesting cautiously constructive price momentum near the $1.42–$1.45 resistance band.

XRP is still trading within broader bearish patterns against both USDT and BTC, with price action constrained below the 100-day and 200-day moving averages. The USDT pair is hovering near $1.43 above the $1.10–$1.20 support zone, while the BTC pair is testing the 1,950–2,000 sats area. Upside attempts face resistance around $1.80 and 2,500 sats respectively, and recent momentum improvement has yet to confirm a sustained trend reversal.

Crypto analyst Osemka has highlighted that Dogecoin’s price is being repeatedly rejected at a key EMA and could either break higher or fall toward $0.084 as it runs out of room. Other analysts project that if support holds, DOGE could climb toward $0.13–$0.15 and potentially extend as high as $1.80 with targets at $0.739 and $1.25 by 2027. Dogecoin is trading around $0.09639, up over 4% in the last 24 hours, while the EMA hovers just under the psychological $0.10 level.

The XRP Ledger Foundation has announced XRPL Software version 3.1.2, an update to the rippled server that addresses an edge-case bug capable of causing outages on public-facing nodes. The new release follows February's emergency 3.1.1 patch for the Batch amendment issue, while a revised BatchV1_1 amendment and a lending protocol proposal continue to move through the network's voting process. Validators are also urged to trust a new GPG signing key introduced on Feb. 18 to ensure future upgrades work smoothly.

XRP Ledger validators are currently voting on the v3.1.0 SingleAssetVault and Lending Protocol amendments, which aim to enhance lending features and vault capabilities on the network. With only eight and six validator votes recorded so far and consensus at 22.86% and 17.14%, respectively, the proposals remain far from the 28-vote (80%) threshold required for activation. If support does not increase before the activation window closes, the timer may reset and the amendments could be reconsidered at a later time.