Analyst Says XRP Now in the Early Stage of an ‘All at Once’

“Slowly, then all at once,” a market analyst says, calling attention to the impressive gains XRP has witnessed over the past year.

Notably, while XRP has been one of the best performers among the top 100 crypto assets in the last year, its price action was less impressive just a few years back. For context, after reaching the $3.31 peak in January 2018, XRP dropped to $0.43 in August of that year, recovered to $0.76, and then collapsed harder.

XRP Price Journey 

By March 2020, XRP had dropped to a low of $0.1140 amid price struggles. This bearish pressure was exacerbated by the SEC’s lawsuit against Ripple, which sprang up in December 2020. The suppression that emerged as a result led to XRP missing the 2021 bull run.

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In a recent commentary, market analyst Tokenicer further called attention to the extensive struggles XRP suffered in the years that followed despite seeing mild gains. Particularly, the market commentator highlighted XRP’s price performance on a year-on-year (YOY) basis from Sept. 22, 2022.

According to him, by Sept. 22, 2022, XRP changed hands at $0.4926. While this was an improvement from the $0.1140 low in 2020, it exemplified XRP’s underperformance, considering the altcoin already saw a $3.31 peak years back.

Notably, the next year, on Sept. 22, 2023, XRP saw a slow rise to $0.502, representing a meager 1.91% growth. For context, at this stage, XRP had already achieved legal clarity, which came up in July 2023 following Judge Analisa Torres’ ruling. This pushed the price to $0.94 in July 2023 before the drop to $0.502 by September.

“Slowly, then all at once”

Meanwhile, by Sept. 22, 2024, the XRP price had increased to $0.587, representing a 16.93% rise year-over-year. Importantly, the takeaway here is how XRP’s YOY gains have progressed since September 2022. Despite how slow this progress was from 2022 to 2024, it was a clear testament to gradual growth.

Interestingly, the growth from 2024 to 2025 was anything but “gradual,” as XRP has since exploded. Much of this explosion emerged from November 2024 to January 2025 on the back of the U.S. presidential election. Now, despite recent bearish pressure and a slump below $3, XRP is up 387% year-over-year, the largest single-year rise.

Tokenicer compares this growth from 2021 to 2025 to the saying, “slowly, then all at once,” popularized in the 2012 book The Fault in Our Stars by John Green. This indicates that XRP had been following a slow growth pace over the past few years, but is now looking to explode “all at once.”

According to Tokenicer, we are now at the early stages of the “all at once” phase. This commentary suggests that he expects XRP to witness more explosive gains in the coming years. However, he failed to provide any targets. Interestingly, other market commentators have set their sights on ambitious goals such as $100.