XRP rallies 22% after Coinbase enables trading for NY residents

Ripple’s XRP token has rallied dramatically overnight, spiking to as high as $0.40 before finding support at $0.38.

The rise in price has been attributed to the news that crypto exchange Coinbase has launched XRP trading support for residents of New York.

Coinbase issued an update on Twitter stating: “XRP is now available to Coinbase users who are New York residents. New Yorkers can now log in to buy, sell, convert, send, receive, or store XRP on Coinbase or using our iOS and Android apps.”

While Coinbase added support for XRP in February across retail platforms, New York and UK residents were not included in the update.

Despite previously being conservative in its listing of cryptocurrencies, Coinbase has been prolific over the past year, listing several altcoins in addition to the previously listed large-cap cryptocurrencies Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, and Bitcoin Cash.

If XRP can close tonight’s daily candle above the 200 exponential moving average (EMA), it could well signal a prolonged period of upside potential.

The $0.46 level could be the next target to the upside, but there is also a psychological level of resistance at $0.50.

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Oliver Knight

Londoner ‘Ollie’ graduated from Birmingham City University with a journalism degree in 2016. He combines his writing with his love of crypto and blockchain here at Coin Rivet, saying “It disrupts well-established institutions (banks) while giving an avenue to the less fortunate to achieve financial freedom.” Like all true Londoners, his pet hate is… “People standing on the left-hand side of the escalators on the Tube!”.