Ripple’s XRP Surges Past Ethereum, Dogecoin, and Cardano in Key Performance Metric
Move over, ETH—XRP just flipped the script. Ripple’s flagship token is now outperforming Ethereum, Dogecoin, and Cardano in a make-or-break metric (no, not just price swings).
While the crypto crowd obsesses over memecoins and layer-2 drama, XRP quietly stacked gains where it counts. The details? Buried in the fine print—where Wall Street ’experts’ usually miss them.
Could this be the start of a payments-token resurgence? Or just another blip before the next hype cycle? Either way, the numbers don’t lie—even if the ’fundamentals’ sometimes do.
XRP’s price has failed to produce any significant moves in the past week or so, and is even 5% down within this timeframe. It now sits close to a crucial support level ($2.3), which could lead to another retracement to $2 if it’s broken to the downside, according to analysts.
However, this dull price action hasn’t harmed XRP investors’ (paper) profits. Santiment reveals that those invested in the fourth-largest cryptocurrency are well in the green, with 98.3% of the total supply standing in profit.
This places XRP in a very high position according to this straightforward metric. The asset is second only to bitcoin, whose investors stand slightly higher at 98.4%. What’s particularly interesting is that BTC currently sits just inches away from its all-time high of last week (almost $112,000), and it’s expected that nearly all holders will be in the green.
However, the situation for XRP is a lot different since it is more than 30% away from its January 2018 peak of $3.4 (CoinGecko data).
Furthermore, XRP’s total supply in profit is well above some of the asset’s most notable competitors. The percentages for ETH, DOGE, ADA, and LINK are as follows: 71.5%, 77.9%, 71%, and 80.5%.
However, Santiment warned that when this metric is very high, as is the case with XRP and BTC, the “odds of profit-taking and a short-term pullbacks rise.”
In contrast, when holders are mostly at a loss, it “often indicates fear, undervaluation, and a potential opportunity to enter or add to a position before a price recovery.”
Percent of Total Supply in Profit is a straightforward metric that shows how much of a cryptocurrency’s current circulating supply is held at a profit—meaning the coins were bought at a lower price than they’re worth today. Currently, some notable top caps’ supply in profit… pic.twitter.com/QU3sGrtV07
— Santiment (@santimentfeed) May 28, 2025
