XRP is on course for roughly a 32% gain in August, its strongest monthly performance since July 2025, even after recovering from below $1 and pulling back to trade near $1.40, down about 5% over 24 hours following a high near $1.70. U.S. spot XRP ETFs took in about $23.87 million on Aug. 25, the largest daily haul since May 11, extending positive flows to nine sessions and lifting August inflows above $80 million, with cumulative net subscriptions near $1.59 billion and net assets around $1.46 billion. Ripple’s RLUSD stablecoin crossed $2 billion in circulating supply, with about $963 million on the XRP Ledger as of Aug. 25 versus roughly $1.05 billion on Ethereum, while monthly RLUSD transfer volume across both networks reached about $11.8 billion. CryptoQuant data show whale inflows to Binance of roughly 460 million XRP in a single surge and about 1.451 billion XRP over 30 days, alongside withdrawals of 231 million XRP by Aug. 21, leaving large-holder positioning two-sided as the month ends.