Ripple Tops Unicorns, XRP Capitulates, DOGE Bulls Wiped Out

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Ripple climbs unicorn rankings as its valuation tops $50 billion

In a scene that could make a provincial clerk clutch his pen and pretend he understands modern arithmetic, Ripple no longer treads merely among the shadows of startups. It has elbowed its way into the aristocracy beside xAI and OpenAI, a top-10 parade of unicorns, wherein the sum of fifty billion dollars looms like a chandelier in a tavern. CBInsights confirms the spectacle, placing Ripple just behind the retail leviathan SHEIN, as if a shopkeeper’s ledger suddenly grew legs and began strutting about in silk boots.

  • Top unicorn. Ripple Labs’ valuation has surpassed $50 billion, according to CBInsights, placing it just behind consumer retail giant SHEIN among global unicorns.

Ah, the American blockchain payments firm Ripple Labs Inc-a respectable name for a company that, in the volume of a single press release, leaps up the ladder like a soaked cat on a paternal rug. According to CBInsights, Ripple Labs is now worth over $50,000,000,000, trailing behind the colossal SHEIN, which wears its consumer empire as if it were a shawl knitted by distant aunts.

The CBInsights data placed Ripple Labs above firms such as Figure, Ramp, Canva and Perplexity AI. Ripple Labs was founded in 2012 by Chris Larsen and Jed McCaleb as a payment rail using blockchain, a notion that sounds grand until you realize the railway also needs a conductor who doesn’t misplace the timetable.

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  • Major acquisitions. Ripple’s valuation growth has been reinforced by recent acquisitions, including GTreasury (now Ripple Prime) and Standard Custody, strengthening its push into full-scale financial services.

While its valuation has increased incrementally, the journey has been a carnival of innovation. According to CBInsights, over the past decade, Ripple has filed 117 major patents, the leading spectacles including payment systems, project management, production and manufacturing – as if a miracle-novel about money were being written by a committee of ambitious clerks.

Over the past year, Ripple has expanded significantly with new acquisitions. As reported by U.Today, the company has acquired GTreasury, now Ripple Prime and Standard Custody, solidifying its push as a financial services firm.

XRP enters capitulation phase

In the market’s theatre of tragedy, XRP has officially entered a “capitulation” phase as the asset’s price tumbles below the aggregate holder cost basis, the sort of line that makes even the most stalwart investor drop their cudgel and sigh.

  • Key level. XRP has fallen below its aggregate holder cost basis, signaling a phase of capitulation.

XRP has entered a period of “capitulation,” according to on-chain data from Glassnode. The altcoin has lost its aggregate holder cost basis, that most dreaded of technical and psychological thresholds. The analytics firm notes a wave of panic selling that echoes the bearish waltz seen between late 2021 and early 2022.

  • Selling at a loss. SOPR has dropped sharply from 1.16 in July 2025 to 0.96, indicating XRP is now being sold at a loss on average.

The Spent Output Profit Ratio (SOPR) is the key indicator to watch. This metric tracks the profit or loss realized by coins moving on-chain. A value above 1.0 means coins are sold for a profit; below 1.0 means they’re sold at a loss.

According to Glassnode, XRP’s SOPR has collapsed from a euphoric high of 1.16 in July 2025 to 0.96 today. The trigger appears to be the loss of the Aggregate Holder Cost Basis, the average price at which all holders acquired their XRP. This is, in the vocabulary of the town’s gossipers, a master key to the fortress of fear.

Psychologically, this is a moment of maximum stress. Investors who held on hoping for a rebound now stare at red portfolios as if at a fire-lit inn where the landlord announces another rent hike.

DOGE price slide triggers liquidation imbalance

Dogecoin-an eager creature with a cartoonish snout-continues its march of decline amid the broad market sell-off, as if it woke up one morning and decided to grow tired of being shouted at by charts.

  • Bulls liquidated. Dogecoin continued to lose momentum, with its price declining 4.05%.

Despite the dogged decline, CoinGlass reports that DOGE traders opening long positions to ride the price up have suffered a combined loss of $3,041,239 over the last 24 hours.

During that period, DOGE’s price dropped by 4.05%, turning the liquidation session against bullish traders and spawning a 418% liquidation imbalance in favor of short traders.

  • Bear losses. Short traders were not entirely spared, but losses were comparatively small.

The data also shows that short-position traders were not wholly immune from losses as the asset has displayed mixed price action. Nonetheless, short traders bore mild losses of about $587,000 within the same 24-hour span.

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2026-02-10 20:34