XRP Price Could Start Another Rally: $7 Trillion Bank Announces Its Ripple Coin Investment

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May 8, 2026

XRP price might be falling under its $1.40 support, but UBS, a Swiss banking giant managing $7 trillion in assets, has disclosed XRP exposure via a 13F filing with the SEC. The full scope of that filing reveals exactly which instruments the bank used, and why that distinction matters for price structure.

The bank accumulated 197,369 shares in the Volatility Shares XRP ETF and 317 shares in the Grayscale XRP Trust. Meanwhile, U.S.-listed spot XRP ETFs have drawn over $1.3 billion in cumulative inflows in their first 50 days, with 29 consecutive days of positive flows and a single-day peak of $13.59 million.

To put this into perspective, XRP’s exchange balances are simultaneously sitting at six-year lows, compressing available supply just as demand accelerates.

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XRP Price Could Finally Have Its Awaited Rally

XRP broke out of a multi-week range earlier this week. This has preceded continuation, but instead, it had a short-term rejection. RSI sits at just under 50, after nudging the overbought threshold days ago.

Immediate support, for now, rests at the current price and the 50-period SMA. On a bullish note, a Technical analysis based on a Wyckoff reaccumulation breakout is targeting the $2.60–$2.70 zone, with an interim supply clustered at $2.15–$2.16.

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To resume its rally, XRP needs to hold above $1.35, to then clear $$1.50 resistance, and ride institutional inflows toward $2.60–$2.70. Standard Chartered maintains an $8 price target on regulatory clarity.

However, a close below $1.35 would neutralize the current breakout thesis and expose the $1.20 support zone.

Institutional catalysts, including major ETF inflows and bank disclosures, have historically acted as short-term price accelerants for XRP.

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LiquidChain Does What XRP Can Only Dream

XRP’s institutional wave is real, but at the current price point, the asymmetric upside has compressed. Traders hunting for early-stage exposure before institutional re-rating are rotating attention toward infrastructure presales, where price discovery hasn’t yet occurred.

LiquidChain ($LIQUID) is a Layer 3 infrastructure project positioning as the cross-chain liquidity layer. It fuses Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana liquidity into a single execution environment.

Liquid’s architecture centers on a Unified Liquidity Layer with Single-Step Execution, Verifiable Settlement, and a Deploy-Once structure that lets developers access all three ecosystems without redeployment overhead.

The presale price is currently $0.01457, with more than $700K raised to date. The project is approaching the $750,000 milestone, a threshold that has historically drawn secondary attention from retail aggregators.

Readers researching cross-chain infrastructure exposure at this stage can explore LiquidChain’s presale details here.