Data shows the transaction fee on XRP has seen a severe decline since February 2025, a sign that demand for using the chain has waned.
XRP Total Transaction Fees Has PlummetedBelow is the chart shared by Glassnode that shows how the 90-day simple moving average (SMA) of the XRP Total Transaction Fees has fluctuated over the last few years.
As is visible in the graph, the XRP Total Transaction Fees shot up to a relatively high level back in late 2024-early 2025, indicating that demand for using the network had shot up as the cryptocurrency’s price had rallied. Interestingly, while the asset again went on to surge in the second half of 2025, the 90-day SMA value of the metric saw no increase. In fact, its value actually contracted despite the rally.
From the chart, it’s visible that a particularly strong downtrend took hold in the last few months of the year, with the Total Transaction Fees hitting a low in December. 2026 so far has seen some stability, but the indicator’s value has still overall gone down.
Today, the 90-day SMA Total Transaction Fees are sitting at about 500 XRP, which is 91.5% down compared to the 5,900 XRP peak observed in February of last year. “A drop of this magnitude is not a fee market adjustment,” noted the analytics firm. “It reflects a near-total contraction in organic transaction demand on the network since the speculative peak.”
The Annual Fees indicator here represents the entire Bitcoin miner revenue, so its trend doesn’t only depend on the transaction fees. However, as displayed in the chart, this metric went down even as BTC rallied to its all-time high in 2025.
BTC PriceBitcoin briefly recovered above $64,000 on Monday, but the coin has since pulled back as its price is back at $60,900.
