
KEY POINTS
- $XRP prices plummeted over the weekend, with the token trading below $3 as of early Monday
- Bitcoiners have been hot on the heels of Ripple over its alleged lobbying against a strategic Bitcoin reserve
- $XRP Army members believe the negativity stems from Bitcoin maximalists seeing $XRP as a potential threat to $BTC
Leading European digital asset manager CoinShares has filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for an XRP exchange-traded fund (ETF), becoming one of several financial institutions that have applied with the regulator to issue ETFs tracking the price of XRP, the XRP Ledger's native cryptocurrency.