Ripple and MicroStrategy say XRP and Bitcoin unaffected by CLARITY Act failure
XRP (XRP)
Editor:
Eugene Serbin
bitcoinethereumnews.com reports that Ripple and MicroStrategy told investors nothing legal changed for XRP and Bitcoin (BTC) after the Senate blocked the CLARITY Act on Tuesday. The bill would have written crypto’s US market rules into federal law. The vote failed 49 to 50, with backers needing 60 to pass.
How the market reacted
Whalio's own Binance spot order flow for XRP, measured when this story was written up on 16 September 2026. Not the outlet's figures.
XRP is trading at $1.28 with a spot volume of $420,875,434 over the last 24 hours. The 24-hour buy ratio is 50.1%, indicating balanced buying and selling pressure, while the 1-hour and 4-hour ratios are slightly lower at 48.8% and 48.4% respectively. This suggests that short-term buying momentum is fading compared to the daily average. The 24-hour volume delta is positive at +$1,312,875, meaning net buying has exceeded net selling over the full day. However, the 1-hour and 4-hour deltas are negative, showing recent selling pressure has outweighed buying in the immediate term.
The latest daily buy ratio of 50.6% sits at the 83rd percentile of the last 322 days, against a median of 48.5% - stronger buying than most days.
Was that an ordinary day?
The same Binance spot measurements for XRP, averaged over the days leading up to the story.
Over the preceding week, the average buy ratio was 49.0%, making today's 50.1% ratio slightly higher by 1.2 points. Spot volume today is 2.27 times the weekly average, indicating significantly higher activity than usual. Despite this volume spike, the 8-day price change is -9.4%, and the total volume delta for the period is -$10,071,420. This shows that while trading activity is unusually high, the broader weekly trend remains net negative.