🥛 3 catalysts brewing for XRP 👀

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✍️ 3 catalysts brewing for XRP
✍️ Different ways to take profit in the short-term
🎙️ The Milk Road Show: This Is How Crypto Replaces Banks: Cards, Stablecoins & Onchain Accounts w/ Itamar Lesuisse
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3 CATALYSTS BREWING FOR XRP 👀

More often than not, we get feedback like this from our readers:

So to quench the XRP thirst, here are 3 catalysts we’re seeing for Ripple right now:

1/ RLUSD just surpassed $1B in market cap

ICYMI, RLUSD is Ripple’s stablecoin that’s gaining a lot of traction of late.

Launched on December 17th 2024, RLUSD has surpassed $1B in market cap in less than a year.

Source: Token Terminal

2/ Institutions are getting interested in RLUSD

Big surprise: Abu Dhabi now allows licensed firms to use RLUSD inside its financial zone.

Even bigger surprise: RLUSD can now be used as collateral while lending/borrowing assets.

3/ XRP is trading well above its support line

Despite the rough market over the past two months, XRP has still managed to stay above its key support line.

It did briefly drop below it twice since October 10th but each time it snapped right back.

As long as XRP holds that support, a breakout is firmly on the table.

Source: TradingView

We’ve always believed XRP had the pumpamentals… but the fundamentals were harder to find.

After the launch of RLUSD, we’re finally seeing the fundamentals catch up.

Now to the most important bit. 👇

Dear @EveryoneWhoSh*tsOnUsForNotWritingAboutXRP, hope this article helps to show that we don’t fully ignore XRP here.

A NEW FOUNDATION FOR THE GRID

Is this the most legit energy company to ever enter crypto?

Fuse is a $300M ARR UK utility powering 200,000+ homes - and now it’s launching The Energy Network, a new digital layer engineered to scale our grids and save billions in costs.

It’s one of the only three projects to receive a no-action letter in the past 5 years (and yeah, that’s a pretty big deal).

It’s real infrastructure, not speculation - connecting homes and devices to make power smarter, cheaper, and more efficient.

One of the highest-revenue DePIN projects in crypto - and it’s still pre-launch.

Follow Fuse on X for updates.

HOW TO TAKE PROFIT IN THE SHORT-TERM 💰

My uncle Steve kept saying this to me during Thanksgiving dinner last night:

“Why didn’t you take some profit when Bitcoin rose to $125K???”

Well, because we at Milk Road take the long-term approach to investing. No selling until Kyle buys each employee a Bugatti.

Source: Tenor

But we also get it. Not everyone wants to hold their losses through every pullback. Some of you want a quick exit to take that vacation to Hawaii.

So if we had to think about taking profit on the next big pump (aka Secure the Hawaii Trip), here are two ways we’d do it:

Technique #1: Trimming

Whenever something rises way too much, way too quick, it’s bound to come back down.

Trimming lets you lock in gains while staying in the trade.

Here’s how it works:

Target 1: Sell 33-50% of the position when you hit a modest profit target.
Target 2: Sell another 25% if the price hits the next target.
Target 3: Leave the final portion (the "moon bag") to ride until the trend clearly breaks.

Technique #2: House Money

Once your position is way up, you sell exactly enough to fully recover your initial investment.

Everything left in the position now becomes “house money”.

You’re now playing with profits, not your principal.

If you're looking for more specific thoughts on the recent downturn, and WHY we are holding through all of this, our NOPs (nerd on payroll) spoke about it extensively in our most recent AMA. 👇

If you’re not PRO yet, you won’t be able to watch that video.

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