XRP Price Today Breaks Key Support Below $2 as Crypto Sell-Off Deepens — What’s Driving the Drop on Dec. 16, 2025
December 16, 2025 — XRP (the token closely associated with Ripple’s ecosystem) slid further Tuesday, extending a multi-week soft patch and turning a familiar psychological line in the sand — $2 — into a fresh point of market anxiety. In early trading, XRP fell into the $1.80s, with multiple reports placing the move around $1.87–$1.88, as the broader crypto market flipped risk-off and leveraged positions were forced out. [1]
The headlines may look like “just another down day” in a volatile asset class. But beneath the surface, Tuesday’s slide has a clear structure: a technical break of a widely watched support zone near $1.93, a burst in trading activity, and a liquidation wave that left traders hunting for the next price…
