Up 400%, How Much Higher Can XRP Go?

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Dominic Basulto, The Motley Fool

Mon, Mar 24, 2025, 4:30 AM 5 min read

Ever since the statesmanlike predetermination successful November, XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) has been connected an implicit rocket ship. At its existent terms of $2.39, XRP is up astir 400% implicit the past 5 months. And it remains the top-performing large cryptocurrency of 2025, up 20% since the commencement of the year.

And things conscionable support getting amended for XRP. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has reportedly decided to driblet its suit against Ripple (the institution down the XRP token) that has been ongoing since December 2020. On that news, XRP popped different 10%. So conscionable however overmuch higher tin XRP spell successful 2025?

Right now, it's casual to find investors convinced that XRP volition double, triple, oregon adjacent quadruple successful terms by the extremity of the twelvemonth to deed the $10 mark. And, if you walk conscionable a fewer minutes more, you tin find investors convinced that XRP could deed $100 soon. Spend a fewer much minutes, and you tin find a forecast that calls for XRP to deed a wildly optimistic terms of $10,000 per token.

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But let's acceptable expectations here. For one, XRP is already up a batch since the election, truthful overmuch of the pro-crypto euphoria during the past fewer months has apt already priced into the quality astir the SEC. Markets are smarter than you think. That helps to explicate wherefore XRP didn't treble connected the latest news. Instead, it was up a humble (by crypto standards) 10%.

Moreover, if you look astatine the past decennary of XRP's terms history, there's precise small to suggest that XRP is going to treble successful terms anytime soon. The all-time precocious for XRP is conscionable $3.84, and that was each the mode backmost successful 2018. To marque the mathematics easier, let's conscionable telephone this $4. So XRP would request to soar different 60% to deed that people by the extremity of 2025.

Just however apt is that? One hint comes from online prediction markets, wherever participants are wagering acold hard currency connected a azygous question: "XRP All Time High Before 2026?" Right now, 41% deliberation that's possible. At the opening of the year, though, it was person to 70%. So, obviously, the caller bout of marketplace volatility has heavy influenced investors.

That said, determination are 3 imaginable catalysts that could assistance propulsion XRP to a caller all-time high. The archetypal is the imaginable motorboat of a spot XRP exchange-traded money (ETF) by the extremity of the year. Back successful February, Bloomberg analysts suggested that determination was a 65% accidental of this happening.

The reasoning past was that the motorboat of a spot XRP ETF would beryllium intolerable arsenic agelong arsenic the SEC lawsuit was hanging implicit Ripple. Well, if the SEC lawsuit is yet finished, past the chances of XRP getting a spot ETF should summation dramatically. Nine concern firms person already submitted applications to the SEC, and it could beryllium a substance of when, not if, a caller spot XRP ETF starts trading.