XRP needs a 405% rally to hit $5, which would push its market cap to $313 billion and surpass Ethereum. The CLARITY Act's September 15 Senate floor vote could push XRP near $2, but it requires 60 votes to advance. XRP ETF inflows collapsed 93% to roughly $1 million weekly, and Ripple's bank partners use XRP for settlement rather than holding it.
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Even so, $5 keeps coming up as a target, and one influencer with 552,000 followers predicted XRP would reach it before the end of October. For XRP to reach $5, its market capitalization would have to climb to about $313 billion, around 5X its current $62.3 billion valuation. So what would XRP need for a move that size?
The XRP price would need to rally 405% from $0.99 to reach $5. That would add roughly $251 billion to XRP's market value, bringing it to $313 billion, which is more than XRP was worth even at its all-time high of $3.84. XRP has produced gains that big before, but they happened when the coin was far smaller.
When XRP hit $3.84 in January 2018, it had roughly 38.4 billion tokens in circulation and a market cap around $148 billion. However, the circulating supply has grown to 62.7 billion since then. So XRP reaching that same $3.84 today would produce a $240 billion market cap, which is $92 billion more than 2018 for an identical price.
Every dollar of gain now moves the market cap roughly 63% further than it did. That is why $5 asks for so much. At $313 billion, XRP would overtake Ethereum and become the second-biggest crypto after Bitcoin's $1.30 trillion, which means passing a network that runs most of the stablecoin and tokenization market.
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