XRP News - May 5, 2026

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News: XRP is testing key resistance zones around $1.45 today amid a surge of fundamental network growth and major international developments. Data from CryptoQuant reveals that the XRP Ledger (XRPL) has officially hit a new all-time high in user adoption, adding 67,186 new addresses in just 30 days to reach a total of 8,265,794. This steady, organic expansion is largely attributed to growing real-world utility and adoption in Asia, notably including Rakuten's integration of the XRPL into its 100-million-member ecosystem. Furthermore, on-chain activity has spiked significantly, with transfer volumes jumping 5x and tokenized U.S. Treasuries growing 8x on the network. In ecosystem news, Ripple CTO David Schwartz issued a technical reality check regarding network throughput, clarifying that while 1,500 transactions per second (TPS) is a theoretical laboratory capability, the currently deployed live network cannot sustain those levels. Forcing maximum throughput now would require spamming the network, which Ripple aims to prevent in order to keep participant costs down. Meanwhile, on the macro front, institutional exposure continues to broaden globally; Russia's largest stock exchange, the Moscow Stock Exchange (MOEX), announced the launch of new cryptocurrency indices that will natively include XRP alongside Solana, Tron, and BNB.