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Crypto market researcher Dom (@traderview2) says he\u2019s identified what looks like a persistent, algorithmic XRP seller on South Korea\u2019s Upbit: one that, by his estimates, has offloaded roughly 3.3 billion XRP into the XRP\/KRW order book over the past 10 months. If the analysis holds, it reframes Upbit\u2019s XRP flow as a venue-specific phenomenon rather than a simple reflection of global risk-on\/risk-off sentiment.<\/p>\n

XRP\/KRW Saw $5 Billion in Net Selling<\/h2>\n

Dom analyzed<\/a> \u201c82 million trades on Upbit XRP\/KRW\u201d and mapped their net imbalance over time. His headline conclusion: \u201cA $5 billion one directional selling pipeline running 24\/7 for almost a year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dom said the work began after an intense intraday stretch that forced a closer look at the tape. \u201cIt started with yesterday\u2019s price action. -57M XRP in CVD over 17 hours. It looked insane,\u201d he wrote. \u201cSo I ran forensic queries \u2013 bot fingerprinting, iceberg detection, wash trade checks. The selling was real. Algorithmic. 61% of trades fired within 10ms. Single bot running 17 hours straight with one 33 second pause.\u201d<\/p>\n

Instead of treating that -57 million XRP cumulative volume delta as an outlier, Dom said he zoomed out and found it matched a longer-running pattern. \u201c-57M isn\u2019t an anomaly,\u201d he wrote. \u201cUpbit XRP\/KRW has been net negative every single month for 10 months,\u201d listing several months with large net selling: \u201cApr: -165M,\u201d \u201cJul: -197M,\u201d \u201cOct: -382M,\u201d and \u201cJan: -370M.\u201d In total, he put the figure at \u201c3.3 BILLION XRP in net selling. ~$5B.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Upbit<\/p>\n

He also argued the flow is unusually consistent. \u201cOnly 1 week out of 46 was positive. One,\u201d Dom wrote, adding that there is \u201cno weekday\/weekend distinction\u201d and \u201cno time of day where buying outweighs selling in aggregate.\u201d That persistence is part of why he framed it as something closer to execution infrastructure than discretionary trading. \u201cThis isn\u2019t a trader,\u201d he wrote. \u201cIt\u2019s infrastructure.\u201d<\/p>\n

A key part of the thread is the cross-venue comparison. Dom said Binance\u2019s XRP\/USDT market showed materially less sell pressure during the same windows\u2014\u201c2-5x less sell pressure on the same coin,\u201d he wrote, pointing to a June period where \u201cBinance was net positive while Upbit bled -218M.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also flagged a weak relationship between the two venues\u2019 hour-by-hour flow, claiming \u201cthe hourly correlation between the two venues is only 0.37,\u201d which would imply Upbit\u2019s net selling is being driven by local factors rather than simply mirroring global positioning.<\/p>\n

XRP Traded Cheaper In Korea For Months<\/h2>\n

Dom\u2019s pricing observations added another layer. He said that from April through September, Upbit XRP traded \u201c3-6% BELOW Binance,\u201d calling it a \u201creverse Kimchi discount<\/a>.\u201d In his view, that detail matters because it suggests the seller was willing to accept consistently worse execution than what was available elsewhere.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe sellers were accepting 6% worse fills than available on global markets, for many months,\u201d Dom wrote. \u201cThey don\u2019t care about the price. They need KRW, are mandated to use Upbit, and\/or are Korean holders taking profit\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

He then pointed to what he described as a structural break around Oct. 10<\/a>. \u201cKorean retail went insane. Premium flipped from -0.07% to +2.4% in a single day. Trades 5x\u2019d to 832K,\u201d Dom wrote, adding that the premium \u201chas only briefly gone negative since.\u201d The seller, in his telling, did not back off\u2014if anything, the pace increased. \u201cAnd the sellers? They doubled their daily rate. From -6.3M\/day to -11.2M\/day.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

Dom tried to connect that behavior to market regimes by \u201cbucket[ing] every day by what XRP did on Binance globally<\/a>,\u201d reporting that Upbit flow skews heavily negative on down days and especially on crash days.<\/p>\n

He summarized the dynamic as feedback between a systematic seller and retail behavior: \u201cOn moon days, Korean retail becomes a NET BUYER. They\u2019re accumulating,\u201d he wrote. \u201cOn crash days, sell intensity is 8x heavier. The systematic seller + retail panic amplify each other. Korean retail buys every rip. The pipeline sells into all of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"XRP<\/p>\n

To support the \u201cmachine versus retail\u201d framing, Dom contrasted order-size fingerprints on both sides of the tape. He claimed the sell side repeatedly used round-number clips\u2014\u201c10, 50, 100, 500, 1000 XRP\u201d\u2014with \u201c57-60% of all trades fire within 10ms,\u201d while the buy side showed a large fraction of \u201ctiny fractional sizes,\u201d such as \u201c2.535, 3.679, 2.681 XRP,\u201d which he argued is consistent with KRW-denominated retail tickets like buying a fixed won amount of XRP. \u201cOne side looks like retail,\u201d he wrote. \u201cThe other looks like a machine.\u201d<\/p>\n

The scale claim is also central to why the thread traveled. Dom said \u201c3.3 billion XRP\u201d represents \u201c5.4% of XRP\u2019s entire circulating supply,\u201d moved through \u201ca single trading pair, on a single exchange, in 10 months.\u201d He emphasized he\u2019s working from trade-level datasets: \u201cThis analysis used tick trade data I collected from Upbit and Binance,\u201d he wrote, citing \u201c82M Upbit trades + 444M Binance trades.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dom stopped short of naming a specific entity behind the selling, instead posing a question he framed as the next investigative step: who can sustain \u201c300-400M per month for a year straight,\u201d seemingly \u201cdoesn\u2019t care about 6% discounts,\u201d and \u201cneeds KRW specifically or is in some walled garden and can only use Upbit?\u201d<\/p>\n

At press time, XRP traded at $1.45.<\/p>\n

\"XRP<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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