XRP Flips Solana, Topping $2 for First Time Since 2018 as Ethereum Price Hits 6-Month High

XRP continued its weekend surge into Sunday, popping above the $2.00 mark for the primary time in virtually seven years and flipping Solana by market cap, whereas Ethereum reached a six-month peak.

The worth of XRP is at present sitting at $2.16 as of this writing, the best value seen since January 2018 and the primary time it is topped the $2.00 milestone in the identical span. XRP is up 15% on the day, pushing its weekly acquire to 54%. The asset has now quadrupled in value during the last 30 days, up 318% throughout that window.

At a present market cap of $134 billion, XRP has vaulted forward of Solana to grow to be the fourth-most invaluable digital asset general. Solana’s market cap sits at about $112 billion, as of this writing.

As Decrypt lined yesterday and over the previous few weeks, XRP is surging greater than most main property due largely to optimism over its regulatory future. President-elect Donald Trump ran on a pro-crypto platform, and Securities and Change Fee (SEC) head Gary Gensler has resigned efficient January 20, 2025, when Trump will probably be sworn in.

The SEC has focused Ripple Labs for alleged securities violations, leaving XRP—which was created by Ripple’s founders and its utilized in its money-transfer companies—with an unsure future in the USA. Nevertheless, the approaching regime change has given buyers confidence that XRP will face fewer challenges forward, and could possibly be adopted for spot exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and different monetary use circumstances.

XRP stays about 41% down from its all-time excessive value of $3.40 set again in January 2018, however once more, it is nearer than it has been in almost seven years.

In fact, all main cryptocurrencies have seen surging costs in current weeks since Trump’s election win, although Ethereum (ETH) had lagged behind Bitcoin and different cash in current months.

However ETH could lastly be catching up, because it hit a six-month excessive value of $3,741 on Sunday. Ethereum is up 11% on the week and 48% during the last 30 days, however remains to be about 24% off its all-time excessive mark of $4,878 from 2021.

Even so, it is comparatively flat on the day, with solely a 0.4% acquire as of this writing as the value has since dipped to $3,707. Bitcoin can also be roughly flat on the day at a present value of $97,200.