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South Korea's Upbit hits $830 million single-hour record as XRP and TRUMP dominate

8/22/2026

Trading volume, the total dollar value of assets changing hands on an exchange, hit a single-hour record at South Korea's Upbit on Saturday: the platform logged 1.15 trillion won, roughly $830 million, in sixty minutes, driven largely by XRP ($XRP) and TRUMP token.

The surge capped a two-day run that marked Upbit's highest daily total since mid-March.

What moved and in what proportion XRP claimed 32.20% of Upbit's 24-hour volume, ranking first among all assets on the exchange, according to Upbit Datalab.

USDT, the dollar-pegged stablecoin, came in third at 8.39%, with Ethereum at 5.44% and Bitcoin at 5.40% rounding out the top five. Upbit's full-day tally reached approximately $3.81 billion.