Select what genuinely interests you. Your picks feed directly into our editorial planning. XRP broke upward out of the narrow range of recent days on Tuesday afternoon and traded at $1.278, or about €1.14, at around 15:40 German time. That is a gain of 2.1 percent in 24 hours, while bitcoin lost 0.7 percent to $77,290 over the same period (data: CoinGecko). The reason to look ahead is a day away: on Wednesday, at 15:46 German time at the earliest, the correction fixCleanup3_4_0 is due to go live on the XRP Ledger, closing among other things a gap in delegated payment permissions.