XRP Price Prediction: Ripple Edges Bitcoin In South Korea

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September 2, 2026

XRP is down today, which puts our price prediction centered around the modest pullback that undersells what just happened in Seoul. For a brief stretch on two of South Korea’s biggest exchanges, XRP wasn’t just keeping pace with Bitcoin, it was outtrading it.

Ripple trading volume on Upbit jumped 273% in a single day, hitting approximately $1.84 billion, with one dataset showing XRP volume near $418.9 million as the price climbed 25.2% to around $1.37, even as Bitcoin sits at $77,700 over the same stretch.

A wealth-focused YouTube host, Dr. Kamilah Stevenson, went further, suggesting some of that buying power rotated out of Korean semiconductor stocks and into XRP, though she stopped short of confirming the flow directly.