ADA and XRP are bleeding again as the whale sell-off increases

ADA is down 5.5% daily, XRP over 3%.

Both assets have turned red again, only continuing the recent trend that started midway through last business week. Whales could be to blame this time.

Selling ADA whales

Data shared by Ali Martinez indicates that Cardano whales have been selling tokens en masse. To be precise, they sold 440 million ADA last month, which increased the immediate selling pressure on the asset.

440 million Cardano $ADA were sold by whales in just one month! pic.twitter.com/KHwk1XguZk

— Ali (@ali_charts) November 16, 2025

Within this time frame, the price of the asset has fallen by more than 23%. This past week has been particularly painful as it has fallen 17% since last Sunday. On a daily scale, the ADA has fallen 5.5% and is now below $0.48, which is the lowest price tag since the early October massacre.

The analyst with over 160,000 followers on X gave ADA investors some hope, to claim that the TD Sequential, a measure used to determine the depletion of a given asset in either direction, had provided a buy signal. The indicator previously marked the top of the ADA and could now indicate that a bigger recovery is on the way.

XRP situation worse

The landscape surrounding XRP is even more concerning. Ripple Whales have been selling off huge chunks of ownership for more than a month. At some point, CryptoPotato reported that they had offloaded 1.4 billion tokens within a 30-day period.

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Their selling spree continued during and after Friday’s market crash. Additional data from Martinez shows that they dumped another 200 million tokens, worth more than $400 million at current prices.

Whales have dumped almost 200 million $XRP in just 48 hours! pic.twitter.com/4qObRnDE0X

— Ali (@ali_charts) November 16, 2025

Somewhat expectedly, this growing selling pressure from major market participants has hurt the price of the underlying asset, which has fallen 4% in the last 24 hours alone (7% weekly) and is now trading well below $2.20.

However, Martinez also brought up something positive for the XRP Army. He noted earlier today the number of whale transactions daily reached 716, each worth more than $1 million. This is the highest number in four months and indicates that overall interest in the asset is increasing.

This could be due to the recent launch of a spot XRP ETF in the United States, which broke the record for first-day trading volume this year.