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Institutional investments in Ripple’s XRP nearly doubled last week Institutional investments in Ripple’s XRP nearly doubled last week
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Institutional investments in Ripple’s XRP nearly doubled last week

with insights from Grayscale Investments

Institutional players allocated $33 million in XRP investment products last week, says a CoinShares report.

Institutional investments in Ripple’s XRP nearly doubled last week

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Ripple-issued token XRP has been the most popular altcoin among institutional investors as the assets under management (AUM) in related financial assets nearly doubled, a report published by asset manager CoinShares earlier this week showed.

“We believe this recent renewed appetite for digital assets is due to a combination of increasing acceptance from institutional investors, fears for inflation, and price momentum,” the report noted.

XRP leads among altcoins

Per the report, around $33 million worth of institutional capital has been allocated in XRP investment products over the past week, pushing the corresponding assets under management (AUM) to $83 million.

This comes on the heels of XRP’s price recovery after it plummeted earlier this year when the Securities and Exchange Commission filed a $1.3 billion lawsuit against Ripple Labs, the company behind the token.

On April 5, XRP was already trading at around $0.72—already higher than its “pre-lawsuit” level—but managed to more than double in price since then. This rapid growth could’ve been one of the reasons for institutional investors’ renewed interest.

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Institutional crypto AUM keeps growing

In general, inflows of institutional capital in cryptocurrencies totaled $233 million last week, the report noted. At the same time, the increase in prices pushed the total crypto AUM to $64 billion.

Crypto asset management giant Grayscale was responsible for the lion’s share of this figure last week, holding roughly $50 billion in AUM—or 77%—of the whole sector. It was followed by CoinShares ($5.7 billion; 9%), and 3iQ Corp ($1.9 billion; 3%).

Unsurprisingly, Bitcoin saw the largest inflows of $108 million, followed by Ethereum with $65 million. Among altcoins, institutional investors showed interest in Bitcoin Cash ($4 million), Polkadot ($5 million), Binance Coin ($3 million), and Tezos ($7 million).

Apart from large inflows of capital, the institutional trading volume also surged last week, amounting to $4.8 billion. This represented a 59% increase over the week before and resembled the levels of early February, the researchers concluded.

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