XRP rose more than 8% over the past week, moved above $1.5, and briefly traded over $1.6 before easing, while it is also up 2.8% over the past 24 hours. Separately, PlayNance said GCoin staking is live on PlayW3 and that users locked over 250 million tokens within a few hours, ahead of a token generation event scheduled in less than 14 hours.