4 Sure Signs The Tide Is Rising for XRP Prices in 2025

Bitcoin hit a new all-time high price in December. At the same time, analysts believe XRP is on track to break its own record, eclipsing the gains of Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana in December.

In December, XRP tokens recovered 84% of losses from their all-time high price of $3.4 per coin in January 2018 to a multi-year low of $0.16 in March 2020. After seven years of turmoil in XRP markets, Ripple Labs’ cross-border blockchain settlement tokens hit $2.17 on December 2.

After that, the asset traced a 30-day bullish wedge pattern with decreasing daily trading volumes. The bullish reversal of this classic technical chart pattern materialized on New Year’s Day. Ripple has already gained 26% since the turn of the year.

Below are six of the key supports for further price gains that the XRP markets are counting on moving forward.

1. Musk is backing Ripple’s bid to leave the SEC

In December, incoming President Trump’s new DOGE adviser tweeted his latest rant against the SEC. He made a very favorable statement about XRP when asked in October.

Shortly after the US Fifth Circuit Court in New Orleans ruled that the SEC violated the law (by approving diversity requirements for company boards), Musk tweeted:

“The SEC is just another weaponized institution doing political dirty work.”

It was a quote in a repost by pro-cryptocurrency Utah Senator Mike Lee. The senator said: “The SEC is another ‘independent commission’ that cannot be trusted.”

The SEC is just another armed institution doing dirty political work https://t.co/5w9ajcS6bf

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 12, 2024

Musk’s post came shortly after a ruling by the US Fifth Circuit Court against the SEC in another case that bolsters Ripple’s argument that the agency is regulating by enforcement rather than policy .

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse jumped on the repost train for Musk’s second description. “What he said,” added Garlinghouse.

What he said https://t.co/sHs1aLkf8Z

— Brad Garlinghouse (@bgarlinghouse) December 13, 2024

Earlier in the fourth quarter, at an American PAC conference, an audience member asked the tech titan, “Do you see the XRP Ledger being incorporated into financial institutions in the future?”

Musk responded: “This is definitely not an endorsement or a lack of endorsement for XRP, but I think crypto, by its very nature, helps individual freedom.”

2. Trump returns to the White House a big win for XRP

FOX Business Senior Correspondent Charles Gasparino recently stated that incoming US President Donald Trump could put his finger on the scales in the SEC’s lawsuit against Ripple Labs.

He made the comments to Professional Capital Management CEO Anthony Pompliano on the Pomp Podcast. Gasparino said he expects the new Trump administration to dramatically change the SEC’s approach to Ripple.

He specifically noted Paul Atkins’ nomination of Mr. Trump for SEC chairmanship as a sure sign of a more Ripple and XRP-friendly Securities and Exchange Commission over the next four years.

Atkins is the CEO of a global consulting firm with clients in the cryptocurrency industry. Meanwhile, Trump looks set to purge the SEC of anti-crypto commissioner Caroline Crenshaw.

The SEC case against XRP is arguably the most significant headwind to the price of XRP. It represents the most serious current threat to Ripple and the institutional adoption of XRP.

3. XRP for oil in the Middle East and North Africa

Looking back on a milestone year for crypto and looking ahead to 2025, @Ripple remains committed to advancing the digital asset ecosystem in the Middle East and Africa. This is what we expect in 2025.

– United Arab Emirates cryptographic leadership
The UAE is setting the pace for crypto…

— Reece Merrick (@reece_merrick) January 2, 2025

Reece Merrick, Ripple’s managing director for the Middle East and Africa, shared a detailed note on the #RemittanceRevolution happening in MENA nations on Thursday.

He says the oil-rich UAE in the Persian Gulf is currently leading cryptocurrency adoption in the Middle East:

“Remittances in MENA are getting a crypto makeover. Stable currencies lower costs and speed up transfers, connecting the Middle East, South Asia and Africa like never before. The UAE is leading the charge in financial connectivity” .

He predicts that banks in the Middle East will “fully embrace blockchain solutions” like XRP by 2025:

“2025 will see MEA banks fully adopt blockchain. Look at the UAE, KSA, Bahrain, Qatar and Morocco. Faster payments, tokenized assets and the utility of stablecoins are rewriting the rules of banking. This is how we future-proof financial systems.”

The increase in total value locked in real-world asset (RWA) tokenization platforms is a bullish indicator of XRP’s value as a tool for fast and low-cost settlement in international trade. Most crypto analysts agree that this is one of the most important goals for the blockchain going into 2025.

4. Markets are going crazy for Ripple’s RLUSD

Ripple Labs launched its new stablecoin RLUSD on December 17th. This creates more liquidity on the side of the XRP pool in the blockchain ecosystem, so it is likely to create more long-term support for the price of XRP in due course.

Stable currencies have 1:1 purchasing power with the US dollar or some other free-floating sovereign currency such as the yen or euro. So far, the new stablecoin is already available on several crypto exchanges. Traders can use RLUSD on Uphold, Bitstamp, Bitso, Moonpay, CoinMENA and Bullish, among others.

The industry was already so excited about RLUSD before its launch that Ripple CTO David Schwarz had to warn against FOMO before the coins hit the market. Interestingly, blockchain had minted most of the new stablecoins on Ethereum, about $52 million.

Ripple’s senior vice president of stablecoins, Jack McDonald, told CNBC that the growth XRP has seen prior to the launch of RLUSD inspired the new Ripple-branded stablecoin: “Part of the impetus is because we want to launch a stable currency is the growth we have seen specifically in cross-border payments”.

“As we’ve been using stablecoins more and more in our flows, this really piqued our interest to have our own native stablecoin that can be more cost effective and more operationally efficient to use,” McDonald added.

Bottom line for investors

During the New Year holiday, XRP made a bullish reversal. Ripple broke out of a descending wedge pattern with decreasing volume.

Interestingly, the rally needed much less daily trading volume to recover 68% of its decline from XRP’s record price on December 2nd.

This indicates that this market is far from the euphoric stage of this rally, with plenty of room for upside.

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