A historic regulatory milestone was reached on March 17, 2026, when the SEC and CFTC jointly classified XRP as a digital commodity. This ruling has effectively ended over four years of legal ambiguity, placing it in the same regulatory category as Bitcoin. While the price saw an immediate "sell the news" reaction after hitting $1.60, the long-term outlook has been transformed by the acceleration of spot XRP ETFs, which have already absorbed over $1.3 billion. Analysts are now focusing on the potential for massive institutional deployment as the asset is integrated more deeply into global cross-border settlement frameworks. $XRP

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