XRP Has Climbed to $1.45 Before the September 15 Vote. Can It Reach $2?

XRP has clawed back from under a dollar in just weeks, but two specific hurdles stand between the current price and the round number traders keep watching. One of them arrives on September 15, and the outcome shapes everything that…

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XRP (CRYPTO:XRP) trades at $1.45 after gaining 37% over the past month and 5% over the past week. The XRP price touched $1.70 on August 22 before pulling back, and it had traded under $1 in mid-August before the recovery began.

The $2 figure keeps coming up because it is the round number just above where XRP opened 2026 at $1.84, and a level the coin held for stretches of last year. A move from $1.45 to $2 would be a 38% gain.

So could the XRP price reach $2 by the end of 2026?

What $2 Would Mean Against XRP’s History

The XRP price started this year near $1.84 before falling to $1.45, a year-to-date decline of 21%. Against the recent range, $2 is above every daily close XRP has had in the past three months. The nearest reference above the current price is the August 22 high of $1.70, which the coin could not hold, and then the August 25 high of $1.55.