We recently evaluated what the XRP price and market cap could rise to if XRP captured about 15% of the global crypto market cap.
As the ongoing market downturn impacts asset prices across the board, the global crypto market cap has collapsed over the past few days. For context, the total crypto market cap hit an all-time high of $4.27 trillion on Oct. 6, about a month ago.
XRP Valuation Collapses with the Global Market
However, after the Oct. 10 global market crash, it fell below the $4 trillion level and has since failed to regain it. Interestingly, it recovered to a high of $3.9 trillion on Nov. 11 but faced intense resistance in this area. It has since dropped to the current $3.22 trillion. Essentially, since the Oct. 6 peak, the global crypto market cap has lost $1.05 trillion.
WOverthis period, XRP has wexperienced significant pricedeclines iand a decline inmarket cap. Being the third largest non-stablecoin asset, XRP has contributed to the latest drop in global crypto market cap since Oct. 6. Specifically, XRP has lost $40.87 billion in market cap over the past month, now at $137 billion.
However, despite this decline in market cap, XRP’s market dominance has not observed a comparative drop. Notably, on Oct. 6, XRP had a market dominance of 4.285% with a market cap of $177.87 billion. Today, the market dominance has only dropped to 4.25%, a 0.81% drop despite XRP’s actual market cap collapsing nearly 23%.
This confirms that the broader market collapse has impacted every crypto asset on the top list, spreading across the board. However, XRP’s current market dominance represents a considerable decline from the yearly peak of 5.528% in July, indicating that XRP has gradually lost some of its market share over the past four months.
XRP Price if It Captures 15% of the Crypto Market
Nonetheless, analysts believe XRP would soon recover its market share, with some even suggesting XRP could overtake Ethereum (ETH), which currently has a market dominance of 11.86%. Amid these projections, we recently assessed how much the XRP price and market cap would rise for it to capture 15% of the market.
For perspective, XRP’s peak market dominance is much higher than 15%, having reached a top of 31.3% in early 2017. At this 31.3% dominance, XRP had a market cap of $15.2 billion due to the lower value of the global crypto market cap at the time.
Today, with the crypto market standing at $3.22 trillion, if XRP captured a 15% share, its market cap would grow to about $483 billion, representing a new all-time high in valuation. Meanwhile, considering its current supply of 60 billion tokens, the $483 billion cap would translate to a price of around $8, representing a 252% increase from the current price of $2.27.
Notably, some analysts have predicted a possible XRP rally to the $8 price. For one, market watcher Dark Defender suggested that XRP’s fifth Elliott Wave could take its price to $8. Meanwhile, in September, Cobb argued that there’s no reason XRP will not hit $8 by year-end.
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