Interesting take, funding and futures often tell more than headlines, feels like patience is needed here.

🚨 $XRP IS UNDER A QUIET, CALCULATED ATTACK — AND MOST TRADERS DON’T SEE IT 🚨

This isn’t noise.

This isn’t retail panic.

This is positioning by design 👀

A verified whale just added a $1M short on XRP on Hyperliquid (0x99B10…3710729).

One short alone isn’t special — where and how it’s happening is.

📉 HERE’S THE RED FLAG MOST ARE IGNORING:

• Deribit funding has flipped negative

• XRP futures curve is inverted

• Long-dated contracts trade cheaper than near-term ones

That setup doesn’t scream “hedge.”

It screams expectation of lower prices ahead.

🧠 NOW LOOK AT THE DISCONNECT:

XRP has had good headlines lately —

integrations, ecosystem growth, institutional chatter.

If narratives were enough:

❌ funding wouldn’t stay negative

❌ whales wouldn’t press shorts

But they are.

👉 THE REAL SIGNAL:

News isn’t moving capital.

Positioning is.

When smart money believes in upside, they pay funding to stay long.

Right now?

They’re being paid to stay short.

That’s not fear.

That’s intent.

📌 WHAT THIS REALLY MEANS:

This isn’t “XRP is dead.”

This is short-term pressure, applied deliberately.

As long as:

• funding stays negative

• whales keep size on

• rallies get sold into

Upside will remain capped.

✅ REAL STRENGTH BEGINS ONLY WHEN:

• shorts stop adding

• funding stabilizes

• price holds without derivative support

Until then, XRP isn’t weak —

it’s being leaned on quietly.

Smart traders don’t argue narratives.

They follow where the money is leaning.

👀 Stay sharp.

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