XRP Longs vs. Shorts: The Numbers Behind the $1 Battle Aren’t What They Seem
Aug 17, 2026
< 1 min read
by Wayne Jones
for CryptoPotato

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XRP’s fight to hold $1 has come with a side effect: a swirl of derivatives numbers that do not agree with each other.
Open interest figures, long-short ratios, and taker volume splits have all been circulating this week, and Bird, a builder on the XRP Ledger, spent a long post untangling why none of them measure the same thing.
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