Crypto Influencer Predicts XRP Will Hit $5 by October Despite Trading at $1

XRP (CRYPTO:XRP) trades at $1.00 today after dropping to $0.9889 on August 11, its lowest price in a year.

However, a crypto influencer called John Squire told his 552,000 followers on August 17 that XRP will hit $5 before October ends. That would be five times the current XRP price, or a 400% gain in ten weeks, and he gave three reasons for the prediction.

Why John Squire Predicts XRP Will Hit $5 by October

John Squire posts as @TheCryptoSquire on X, where he predicted XRP will hit $5 before the end of October. “Save this prediction. Come back in October,” he wrote, before adding that he was putting it on the record.

He gave three reasons for the $5 target, and each one is measurable. The first is adoption, which means how much the XRP Ledger gets used for actual payments. The second is institutional interest, which covers the spot XRP ETFs that let investors buy XRP through a brokerage account, and the corporate treasuries that have bought the token since those funds launched in November 2025. The third is global finance, which means Ripple’s work getting banks and payment firms to move money over the XRP Ledger.

So the XRP price would need a 400% gain in ten weeks, and those three reasons are all Squire has offered to support it.