Ripple’s Rollercoaster: Why XRP is Defying Gravity 🚀
So, what’s the secret sauce? 🤔 Could it be the overall market gains that lifted Bitcoin and its altcoin brethren, even as the US decided to play geopolitical whack-a-mole with Venezuela? Or perhaps it’s the fact that XRP ETFs have been on a tear since their mid-November debut, gobbling up another $13.6 million on Friday and nearing a jaw-dropping $1.20 billion in net inflows. Cha-ching! 💰



![A strategic network abandonment model demonstrates that increasing an outside option for agents initially causes exits only among those with the lowest payoff, but beyond a certain threshold-defined by the network’s payoff structure and an outside utility value of [latex]5.05[/latex] relative to minimal in-network utility of [latex]5.1[/latex]-can trigger a cascading abandonment where the departure of a few agents induces further, widespread departures, highlighting a critical transition in network stability governed by parameters [latex]\alpha = 1[/latex], [latex]\beta = 0.3[/latex], and [latex]\beta\rho(A) = 0.9[/latex].](https://arxiv.org/html/2512.24270v1/x1.png)



