This is a great and an unexpected performance from XRP in this kind of time considering its lawsuit from the US SEC.
Don't forget that 90% of XRP trading was outside the US. Whatever the US SEC says, it will only affect XRP for United States users. Even if Ripple will lose to the SEC and even all US-affiliated exchanges will close trading with the XRP, it will survive because the XRP platform will still utilize outside the US market. Therefore we should not wonder why XRP remains one of the top Altcoins in the crypto market.
It's not really hard to believe that it didn't turn zero but it also didn't dip down to at least below $0.20. I guess that proves XRP lab had manipulated the price.
But true. Most holders I guess are not from US, I'm an XRP user too, mostly just used for trading though not for hold. So many people holdon to their investment despite the danger it goes through. If it was just another altcoin, it might have been declaring bankrupt already.