XRP to $30? Ripple's RLUSD Could Be the Key to a Massive 2025 ...
XRP is pushing to the upside this morning after Ripple Labs launched its new stablecoin called RLUSD on some global exchanges.
The US dollar-backed Ripple USD will eventually go live on other platforms like Coinbase and Robinhood as well – and may serve as a meaningful tailwind for XRP in 2025, according to Axelar cofounder Georgios Vlachos.
Ripple decided in favour of launching a stablecoin because of the “growth we’ve seen specifically in cross border payments,” the company’s senior vice president said in a recent interview. Jack McDonald expects the RLUSD to be “more cost effective and operationally efficient to use” as well.
Source: Brave New Coin XRP Liquid Index (XRPLX)
Axelar’s Vlachos expects the launch of RLUSD to drive increased demand for XRP as transactions and remittances denominated in the new stablecoin will predominantly settle on the XRP Ledger and the XRP-EVM.
“When you do those transfers, you pay for gas in XRP. So, the XRP holders are still going to benefit because you burn some XRP every time you do a transaction,” he told in an interview with Cointelegraph today.
Note that stablecoins have built a name for themselves as means of transaction as well as store of value, particularly in emerging economies.
Why has the XRP price soared over the past six weeks?XRP has rallied rather sharply in recent weeks on a double dose of good news.
First, investors cheered the news of Donald Trump returning to the White House as the Republican candidate is broadly expected to ease the regulatory environment for cryptocurrencies in his pursuit of making America the crypto capital of the world.
Then on November 25th, WisdomTree joined peers like Canary Capital, Bitwise, and 21Shares as it filed for an XRP exchange-traded fund.
Investors are welcoming the prospect of ETFs as the example of Bitcoin has strongly established what institutional capital could mean for crypto assets. BTC has soared from less than $45,000 to over $106K since SEC’s approval for the first Bitcoin ETF.
If an XRP fund attracts similar institutional demand following regulatory approval, its price could rally past the seven-year high of about $2.90 it printed earlier in December.
Source: TradingView
XRP price could rally well over 1,000% in 2025
The good news for those who stuck with Ripple Labs through its contest with the Securities & Exchange Commission in recent years is that the RLUSD driven upside in XRP is unlikely to prove short-lived.
In fact, crypto expert Steph now expects XRP to hit $35 in 2025. To put that in perspective, his forecast indicates potential for a whopping 1,250% rally in 2025.
Steph is super bullish on XRP as it has recently had a breakout on the monthly chart. At the same time, the crypto coin has formed a “W” – a key technical pattern that typically signals strong bullish momentum as well.
Source: cfgi.io
Investors may also take heart in finding out that the Ripple USD news has already started to pique interest in XRP, with Whale Alert revealing a transaction involving 60 million XRP from one anonymous wallet to another on Tuesday.
XRP is now the world’s fourth-largest crypto
Predicting a more than 10x increase in the price of a crypto coin may sound a bit too bold, but it could be well within reach for XRP that has already emerged as “the biggest winner of the Trump trade”.
XRP has rallied close to 400% since election day, pushing its market cap well past Solana to $138 billion. So, it’s effectively the world’s fourth-largest cryptocurrency at writing – and looks positioned for further gains in 2025.
Why? Because XRP has taken the brunt of regulatory headwinds in recent years. Therefore, it stands to reason that a switch to regulatory tailwinds under the Trump administration will benefit XRP the most as well, according to Matt Hougan of Bitwise Asset Management.
“Now we get to see what this blockchain that works, has an engaged community, a strong foundation, and a unique, really cheap to maintain consensus mechanism can do in the business world,” he told CNBC in a recent interview.
So, all in all, it looks like the believers who never bailed on XRP despite its struggles may be in for a big pay day in 2025.
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