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XRP Price Obliteration Is Not A Matter Of If, New All-Time Highs Are Coming

XRP Price Obliteration Is Not A Matter Of If, New All-Time Highs Are Coming

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Bitcoinist
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2026-01-23 19:30:13
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Forget the sideways grind. The digital asset built for moving value is gearing up for a velocity shift that leaves chart watchers dizzy.

The Setup Before The Surge

Market structures don't lie. They build, they compress, and eventually, they explode. The current consolidation isn't a sign of weakness—it's a coiled spring. Every regulatory clarity nod, every new institutional pipeline, adds another turn to the tension.

Liquidity Awaits Its Trigger

Traditional finance loves a narrative it can sell to clients, and nothing sells like a settled legal saga turning into a growth story. Watch the order books. The thin spreads and shallow depth at key resistance levels signal a market primed for a violent redrawing of its range.

Beyond The Hype Cycle

This isn't about meme-fueled mania. It's about utility meeting adoption. While other projects promise decentralized utopias, this network is quietly processing settlements where it counts—proving that in finance, boring is often beautiful, and profitable. The old guard of banking is taking notes, even if they'll later claim they invented the concept.

The path to new peaks is cleared. The only question left is which traditional asset manager will be the first to issue a frantic 'strategic re-allocation' memo to cover their tracks. The obliteration of old price ceilings isn't a prediction; it's the next logical phase on the chart.

Why The Current XRP Structure Matters

According to the technical analysis in question, XRP has been carving out a tightening pattern directly beneath a descending trendline that has acted as resistance since the beginning of the year. XRP printed a higher high of $2.4 in early January, retraced, and then began compressing into a narrow range of lower highs on the 30-minute candlestick chart. 

The chart shows how the token has repeatedly respected the trendline without collapsing below support at $1.9. This, in turn, has created what Archie describes as a coil right under the resistance trendline. Interestingly, this kind of structure tends to resolve quickly once price makes contact with the trendline again. 

Trendline Obliteration And The Push Beyond $2

According to the analyst’s prediction, the next touch of the trendline will not be another rejection. Instead, the next touch will lead to a clean break that sends XRP decisively through $2, which is a little more than a checkpoint. From his perspective, the repeated tests of resistance have weakened it, increasing the probability of a breakout as opposed to another downward rejection.

At the time of writing, the altcoin is trading at $1.91, down by 2.6% in the past 24 hours. However, looking closely at the chart Archie shared gives structure to what to expect once the trendline breaks.

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The first level is just above the descending trendline itself, around the $2.00 to $2.05 region. In the context of the chart, a clean MOVE through this level is what flips the structure from compression below resistance into expansion above resistance.

Above that, the next highlighted resistance is just below $2.20. The chart then shows a broader resistance cluster between roughly $2.35 and $2.40. Reaching and breaking above this zone is much more significant, as it WOULD show that the breakout is a genuine trend reversal.

At the top end of the projection, the highest marked region is around $2.60. This zone appears to be the final upside target shown on the chart and would place XRP firmly into price discovery territory relative to recent structure.

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