XRP gained 12.33% over the past week, outperforming every other top-10 cryptocurrency. Only Dogecoin beat it, and Dogecoin doesn’t sit in the top 10. Digital Asset Investor (@digitalassetbuy) noted that mainstream crypto media largely ignored the performance.
According to prediction markets on Kalshi, 54% of participants believe XRP will surpass $2 this cycle. He believes XRP will spike suddenly, and wrote that even the haters know it’s coming.
A Critic Makes the Case
What makes the current setup notable is who is paying attention. Peter Brandt, a Wall Street chart analyst known for criticizing Ripple and its community, assessed XRP’s chart on its technical merits alone. He said the charts alone have always been enough to make a bet.
Brandt has publicly called XRP holders a cult. However, his technical assessment comes without ideological motivation, and he recently set a long-term target of $5.40.
XRP Will Spike Suddenly & Even The Haters Know It's Coming pic.twitter.com/Mk7MVUlDEt
— Digital Asset Investor (@digitalassetbuy) September 27, 2026
Why XRP Has the Edge Over Bitcoin
Bitcoin’s returns have declined with each successive cycle, dropping from 539x in its first cycle to 21x, then to 8x. An analyst put a ceiling of roughly 4x on Bitcoin’s current cycle, projecting a target near $245K. Digital Asset Investor rejected that ceiling. He said he believes XRP can print 10x, 20x, and even more.
As assets grow larger, their multiples shrink. XRP’s lower price makes outsized returns more accessible, and that accessibility drives demand. Bitcoin also benefited from an uncontested regulatory environment that no longer exists to the same degree.
Institutional Demand Is Accelerating
XRP ETFs have recorded net monthly inflows for six consecutive months. In day 71 of tracking, those ETFs took in over 48 million XRP, pushing assets under management past $1.18 billion. The XRP Ledger holds third place in real-world asset market cap growth. These are institutional commitments, not speculative positioning.
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The Adoption Threshold
EasyA co-founder Dom Kwok stated that crypto prices could spike suddenly once adoption hits critical mass. Digital Asset Investor applied that logic directly to XRP, describing the anticipated move as something that will all go off in an instant.
Dark Defender described a parabolic move as inevitable. CryptoInsightUK added that a weekly close above the $100 billion market cap level would likely trigger the next leg higher.
Digital Asset Investor also noted that between 4 and 6 million people watched the game where the XRP logo appeared on the field thanks to Ripple’s partnership with the Florida Gators. Most of those viewers do not yet hold crypto. Representative French Hill confirmed that tokenization is no longer theoretical. The infrastructure is in place and the institutional capital is arriving.
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