When Will XRP Price Stage a Comeback? Here Is What to Look For

Several things that hung over XRP (

) for years have now cleared up: the five-year lawsuit is finally dead, seven regulated funds now hold the coin for you, Ripple runs its own dollar stablecoin, and the network it runs on is busier than ever.

Yet the coin still trades at around $1.10, about 70% below the $3.55 cycle high it hit in 2025. That's the puzzle worth sitting with.

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The story got better, but the price didn't. So here's the question: Does a better story turn into steady demand to hold XRP, or does the money flow around the coin and leave the price where it is?

The way to answer it is to go pillar by pillar and ask whether each gives anyone a reason to own XRP, or only a reason to use Ripple.

Where XRP Stands Right Now

XRP sits at No. 6 by market cap, worth about $69.6 billion at the time of writing, and trading near $1.10. That follows a rough June, when it fell about 20% and limped into July barely above $1. On its own, that reads like a coin quietly bleeding out. However, the buying briefly said otherwise.

Source: CoinMarketCap

On July 2, whales were buying while smaller retail buyers held back, and new wallets on the XRP Ledger

to a three-month high. But it didn't last. By July 11, ledger activity fell, with new wallet creation slowing and the price sliding further. Whoever was buying on July 2 didn't keep showing up.