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Ripple Is Winning Big – So Where’s the XRP Price Moonshot?

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From a very favorable ending to the four-year-long lawsuit against the SEC to a potential XRP ETF in the States, Ripple seems to be on a massive roll.

However, there’s little impact on XRP’s price, which remains almost 30% away from its all-time high and has failed to make a move in the past few weeks. Why so?

Everything Going in Ripple’s Way

Let’s rewind the type about a year ago. Imagine we are in late March 2024. The crypto landscape is not bad in any case, as the BTC ETFs had just gone live in the States, the devastating 2022 bear market is long gone, and bitcoin even charted a new all-time high. But it’s not great for some altcoins, such as XRP.

The company behind it continues its long and exhausting legal battle against the US securities regulator. In fact, recall that this lawsuit, which started in late December 2020, resulted in numerous partners abandoning the Ripple ship as well as exchanges delisting its native cryptocurrency.

Although the Garlinghouse-led firm had secured some court wins in the following few years, there’s no end in sight to the lawsuit as the SEC’s war on crypto rages on. XRP’s price is stuck at $0.6 after a few unsuccessful breakout attempts.

Now, imagine someone came and told you that a year later, there will be a pro-crypto president in the White House, the SEC will have a new and friendlier leadership, the lawsuit will go Ripple’s way, the company will consider an IPO, XRP could have its own ETF in the US, and the token was even mentioned by the same POTUS to be included in the States’s strategic crypto reserve.

You might think they are insane, right? Well, that’s what happened in the past several months or so. But most of those transpired in the past few weeks, so where’s the XRP price surge?

Where’s the Surge?

The most obvious and probable answer to this lies in what happened between November 2024 and January 2025. The moonshot happened then. XRP stood at the aforementioned $0.6 level ahead of the US elections but skyrocketed to $3.4 in January when it matched its 2018 ATH.

This was most likely a rally driven by hope, also known as ‘buy the rumor.’ It rocketed after the elections, jumped following Gensler’s resignation announcement, and pumped ahead of Trump’s inauguration.

When it came down to the actual regulatory changes, which are more than evident now, the SEC lawsuit closure, and everything in between, XRP failed to register the same type of consistent gains. Don’t get me wrong; it rose in value but quickly lost momentum.

The question now is whether it will fly on the rumors of an upcoming XRP ETF in the States or has that been priced in as well. And, if all of the aforementioned positive developments within the Ripple ecosystem couldn’t help XRP break its ATH, what can?

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5 Rocket Boosters for Ripple (XRP) Prices in Q2

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The following five factors are more rocket fuel for prices to rally in XRP markets at the right time in 2025, even though the asset remains far from its early 2025 peak.

1. Bullish 15-Day Cup and Handle Pattern

XRP’s daily trading price continued in mid-April to trace a 90-day falling flag pattern visible at the 1Y view. Moreover, the indicator exhibits the classic declining trend in daily exchange volume. This pattern often signals an end to corrective bear markets and a reversion to the broader bullish trend.

Furthermore, at the 1M view, XRP’s price rounds out converging trend lines on the falling flag trace with a textbook bullish cup and handle pattern over 15 days from Apr. 2 to Apr. 17.

The cup formation spans 10 days from Apr. 2 to Apr. 12 and the slightly downward listing range channel forming the handle appeared from then until Apr. 17, according to data from CoinMarketCap.

Ripple token trading exhibited declining 24H trade volume from above $16 billion in the cup’s middle to below $3 billion during the handle portion of the chart technical indicator.

According to Investopedia, “The cup and handle is considered a bullish signal, with the right-hand side of the pattern typically experiencing lower trading volume.”

2. HNWI Manager: Institutions Quietly Stockpile XRP

There’s no doubt of institutional interest in XRP because of the spot ETF applications at the SEC and Ripple’s partnerships with big global financial clearinghouses.

But Cheyenne, Wyoming-based family office wealth director Jake Claver had a hot tip for altcoin investors on Apr. 10. He said in a note on X that, “Major institutions are stacking up #XRP behind the scenes while keeping the public in the dark.”

“The current price is merely a shadow of what’s coming,” Claver added. “In my opinion, nothing in crypto space offers this level of certainty and potential for massive returns.”

Some repliers challenged Claver to show any evidence of the provocative claim.

While part of the claim is that the major players are keeping such evidence scant, one bit of circumstantial evidence is the frequent sightings in 2024 and 2025 by blockchain explorers of tremendous whale-sized XRP transactions.

More direct evidence would be the public knowledge that banks like Santander, American Express, SBI Holdings, PNC, and Commonwealth Bank use XRP to make large international transfers.

That’s what XRP is built for.

3. XRP ETF Applications Top Ten at US SEC

Bitcoin’s price cranked up 166% within two quarters from $27,400 in Oct. 2023 to $73,000 in Mar. 2024. The rally revolved around the first Bitcoin ETF approvals by the SEC in Jan. 2024.

In mid-April, XRP had 10 spot ETF applications in the queue at the SEC, according to Paris, France-based blockchain research firm Kaiko. That highlights impending demand for Ripple tokens by institutional investors.

The second-most applications out of the crypto segment was five for Solana. Dogecoin and Litecoin had three each pending at the SEC in mid-April. Kaiko projects XRP will be the next blockchain currency to get a spot ETF in the US.

4. X Buzz Over Possible SWIFT Partnership

Meanwhile, popular Crypto X provocateur John Squire, “The Crypto Squire,” famous to over half a million followers, suggested on Apr. 13 that SWIFT could start using XRP as soon as April.

“In 2023, Ripple already participated in interoperability pilot programs led by SWIFT,” Squire wrote. “More recently, SWIFT published a report discussing the integration of Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT)… XRP was part of that conversation.”

Popular Crypto X #XRPArmy booster Amonyx fanned the flames with a video of YouTube business podcaster and motivational speaker Patrick Bet-David pumping XRP in terms of SWIFT payments market share.

Even without a SWIFT partnership, as Ripple captures any significant portion of forward market share growth in SWIFT’s trillion-dollar payments businesses, XRP prices are apt to skyrocket once more.

5. XRP Price Support From Froggy Bitcoin Market

Finally in this list, there’s the support for XRP prices from directly adjacent Bitcoin exchange markets that cyclically draw up vast amounts of capital inflows.

Brokers make BTC sales to individuals and organizations from all walks of life across the planet, at all levels of wealth from third world laborer individual investors to the US government.

Because XRP is a direct trading pair with Bitcoin on dozens of highly liquid currency exchange platforms, BTC generates an enormous long-term support for the former’s value.

While stocks continued to swoon in April over Trump tariffs realigning global trade deals, Bitcoin decoupled from other “risk” markets and went for a cool mid-month rally.

Wall Street Bitcoin ETFs joined the rally in a potential preview of price support from mainstream financial integrations with XRP via the pending Ripple ETFs.

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse remarked in April that he sees Bitcoin’s price topping $200,000 in 2025. Another analyst noted that in March and April, Bitcoin whales have been buying BTC like never before.

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Important Ripple (XRP) Price Update: Critical Metric Plunges as Crypto Market Slumps

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The cryptocurrency market took a sudden dive in the past couple of hours, with the XRP price making no exceptions.

XRP Price Tumbles but Funding Rates Surprise

XRP tumbled by around 2% in the past hour, bringing its total losses to about 8% for the last day. At the time of this writing, the cryptocurrency is trading at around $2.04.

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XRP Price Chart. Source: TradingView

That said, the funding rates on XRP derivatives positions are currently positive. What this means in Layman’s terms is that traders who have long positions are paying those who have short positions. In other words, the sentiment on the derivatives market is currently positive.

Could this mean that the XRP price is about to rebound? Not necessarily – positive funding rates only indicate the prevailing sentiment but sentiment is not necessarily tied up to the short-term price action. Short positions could pile up to “farm” the positive funding rates until the market regulates itself into an equilibrium.

Crypto Markets Plunge

Elsewhere, the broader crypto market is also declining.

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Source: Quantify Crypto

As seen in the heatmap above, Bitcoin’s price is trading at around $84,000, down by around 1% on the day, but the losses some altcoins are charting are considerably higher.

For example, Dogecoin (DOGE) is down 8%, Cardano (ADA) is down 6.6%, and so forth.

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Ripple Price Analysis: Will XRP Plummet Below $2 This Week?

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XRP continues to consolidate with low volatility across its BTC and USDT pairs. Price action is tight, holding above major support but struggling to gain bullish momentum.

By Edris Derakhshi

XRP Price Analysis: The USDT Chart

XRP is holding just above the $2.00 support zone and the 200-day moving average, located around the same price mark.

The $2.00 level has acted as key demand throughout April, with multiple wicks into that zone being bought up quickly. However, bullish follow-through has been weak, and the price remains compressed between $2.00 and the $2.40–$2.60 resistance zone.

Momentum is neutral as the RSI hovers around the 50 mark. Bulls need to reclaim $2.60 to confirm strength and open the way toward the $3.00–$3.10 resistance. If the 200 DMA fails to hold, the next major supports are at $1.40 and $1.

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Source: TradingView

XRP Price Analysis: The BTC Paired Chart

XRP is still in a downtrend against BTC, with a clear sequence of lower highs since the peak in January. The price is now just above the 2,400 SAT level but well below the 2,800 SAT resistance zone.

The 200 DMA near 2,100 remains a key level to watch if the decline continues.

This pair continues to show relative weakness, and reclaiming 2,800 SAT is critical to shift the short-term trend. As long as XRP/BTC fails to break above that structure, upside will likely remain capped.

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Source: TradingView
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