The XRP Ledger processed 879,868 payments on September 1, bringing daily activity close to 890,000 after a 33.6% increase from the prior day and placing throughput about 193,000 payments above the 30-day average of roughly 686,800. A further 13.7% rise would push the network past 1 million daily payments, a closely watched threshold that would not be an all-time high—the historical peak is about 6 million, and activity exceeded 1.5 million and at times 2 million between February and May—but would mark a clear rebound from weaker June and July conditions. Over the past year, daily payments have mostly ranged between about 500,000 and 1 million outside those earlier spikes. The ledger had also recently surpassed 3 billion cumulative transactions, while Ripple completed its scheduled monthly 1 billion XRP escrow release and returned 700 million XRP to escrow, leaving a net 300 million outside new contracts. XRP has eased to about $1.32 after briefly trading above $1.50 in August and is testing the 200-day exponential moving average near $1.35, though it remains above the 50-day EMA around $1.28 and the 100-day EMA near $1.22. Market participants are watching the divergence between rising network payments and softer near-term price action, including whether the $1.27–$1.28 area holds or a deeper pullback toward $1.21–$1.22 develops.