Crypto analyst EGRAG CRYPTO said on X that while building a fresh XRP chart from scratch, he noticed something unusual in the token’s white accumulation zones.

During bear-market accumulation phases, three consecutive green monthly candles are extremely rare, he said, but that exact sequence showed up in 2016, and it may be forming again in 2026.

If September closes green, he argued, XRP would print that rare pattern for only the second time in its history.

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2016 vs. 2026: numbers that rhyme

As shared in his X post, he leaned into the symmetry between the two years, pointing out that 2016 and 2026 share a…