XRP climbed nearly 15% to about $1.21 after Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse attended a White House crypto summit hosted by President Donald Trump. The token broke above a key resistance area near $1.081 after weeks of trading around the $1 level.

The rally followed Trump publicly acknowledging Garlinghouse during the meeting, which also included senior financial regulators, administration officials, and executives from major crypto and market-infrastructure firms.

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The sharp move pushed XRP into technically overbought territory on shorter-term charts.

Ripple Gets a Comfy Seat At The Table

Garlinghouse attended alongside SEC Chair Paul Atkins, CFTC Chair Michael Selig, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. The event also marked the launch of the CFTC’s Innovation Advisory Committee, a 35-member group expected to help shape U.S. digital-asset policy.

Ripple’s presence carries symbolic weight for XRP investors after years in which the company’s legal battle with the SEC dominated the token’s story. The SEC sued Ripple in 2020 over how XRP was sold, and the ensuing litigation colored how U.S. platforms and institutional investors treated the token for years afterward. The appearance itself does not change XRP’s legal status or create new rules, but it places Ripple among the companies taking part in high-level discussions about future market oversight.

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Community reaction was strongly positive, although some observers noted that political visibility does not automatically translate into concrete regulatory benefits for token holders.

CLARITY Act Remains the Focus

Attention is now turning to a procedural Senate vote on the CLARITY Act scheduled for September 15. The market-structure bill would draw a clearer division of oversight between the SEC and CFTC, the two agencies whose leaders sat at the summit table. It has faced ongoing disputes over stablecoin yields, ethics provisions, and anti-money-laundering requirements, and it will need 60 votes — the threshold generally required to advance contested legislation in the 100-seat chamber — to move forward.

Trump urged Congress to pass what he called a fair version of the legislation, while industry participants at the summit stressed the need for a workable regulatory framework. The administration has also indicated that the SEC and CFTC could continue coordinating on crypto policy even if Congress moves slowly.

XRP Charts Flash Overbought Signals

For market participants, the near-term technical picture is less straightforward than the headline rally suggests. XRP’s four-hour Stochastic Relative Strength Index (StochRSI) reached 92 to 95, an extreme reading that often accompanies powerful breakouts but can also leave the market vulnerable to a pullback.

Analysts are watching $1.01 as a potential support-retest zone, with $1.110 marked as the next nearby resistance after the triple-bottom price breakout.

The White House appearance has given XRP a clear short-term catalyst. The longer-term question is whether U.S. policymakers can convert high-level engagement into clear rules that institutions can rely on, and the September 15 Senate vote is the next scheduled milestone for gauging that progress.