Here’s What Needs to Happen for XRP to Reach $100

Despite the current XRP price struggles, projections of a rally to three digits have emerged, but what catalysts could trigger such a run?

Notably, the XRP price action has failed to reflect the broader market recovery. For context, Bitcoin (BTC), the pioneering crypto asset, is up 11.52% this week amid five consecutive intraday gains. Amid this run, BTC has reclaimed $95K, now aiming for the $100K mark.

Meanwhile, XRP is only up 5.34% within the same timeframe, with two intraday losses this week. The altcoin still struggles around the $2.2 region, unable to break above the resistance at this price. Despite this, analysts remain optimistic in its potential to claim greater heights, citing the asset’s robust utility.

The XRP to $100 Predictions 

Particularly, while more feasible targets such as $10 and $27 have sprung up for the near term, some market commentators believe a push to ambitious goals like $100 is possible in the long term. 

For instance, market watcher Levi Rietveld disclosed last September that he was 100% certain XRP price could claim the $100 mark. Also, most recently, analyst BarriC suggested that market participants would happily procure XRP for $100 per token in the future. 

However, critics have cited the resulting market cap as a potential deterrent. For context, XRP currently has a total supply of 99 billion tokens at press time. If the asset reaches a $100 price with this supply, its fully diluted market cap would balloon to $99 trillion. 

Notably, this is larger than Bitcoin’s current $1.9 trillion valuation and the global crypto market cap of $2.97 trillion. It would also make XRP the largest token in the world, surpassing gold at $22 trillion. This puts into doubt the prospect of an XRP price rally to $100. 

What Could Help XRP Price Hit $100?

As a result, a drastic drop in the supply through token burns could theoretically support the asset’s prospects. An avenue to achieve this could come from incinerating Ripple’s escrow stash, currently amounting to 36.8 billion tokens, per XRPScan data.

Some voices in the XRP community have called on Ripple to take this approach. However, the company’s CTO, David Schwartz, has advised against this, arguing that it would have no beneficial impact on the XRP price. He cited a similar move by Stellar in 2019, which failed to improve XLM’s price condition. 

Meanwhile, following President Donald Trump’s announcement of XRP’s inclusion in the U.S. crypto stockpile, some community commentators have highlighted the possibility of donating the escrowed tokens to the U.S. government. However, the potential impact on XRP price remains uncertain.

In addition, even if XRP’s escrowed supply is permanently removed, the leftover tokens, totaling 63 billion, would still pose an obstacle to its rally to $100. At a supply of 63 billion tokens, XRP would have a fully diluted market cap of $6.3 trillion if 1 XRP hits $100. This is still larger than Bitcoin’s and the broader crypto market’s valuations.

The only factor that could further bring this price prospect into the realm of reality is if the overall cryptocurrency market expands significantly. Notably, XRP’s market cap dominance hit a peak of 5.56% in February 2025. If this dominant claimed 6% at an XRP market cap of $6.8 trillion, the broader crypto market would have a valuation of $113.33 trillion.

Meanwhile, Bitcoin currently has a market cap dominance of 64.52%. With a broader crypto market valuation of $113.33 trillion, this 64.52% dominance would translate to a Bitcoin market cap of $73.13 trillion. Considering Bitcoin’s total supply of 21 million, this market cap leads to a price of $3.4 million per BTC. Interestingly, last October, VanEck predicted Bitcoin could hit $3 million by 2050.