XRP Rally Slows on S&P Dow Jones Crypto Index Exclusion

Ripple XRP price is little changed at $1.14 on Wednesday despite S&P Global’s decision to exclude Bitcoin and the token from its crypto index due to revenue criteria.

The price climbed by a minuscule 0.6%, aligning with positive news flow around XRP’s utility. The XRP Ledger surpassed 1 million agentic transactions, signalling growth in machine-to-machine payments.

Also, Ripple Prime, its institutional arm, now processes $3 trillion annually, boosting confidence in the ecosystem’s scale. These milestones reinforce XRP’s use-case narrative, providing fundamental support that can attract steady, long-term interest rather than speculative spikes.

Broader institutional flows…