XRP’s Absurd Math: How a 45,982% Pump to $1,000 Became Crypto’s Latest Pipe Dream

Remember 2018’s wild 68,990% XRP price prediction that never materialized? Fast forward to 2025, and analysts are dusting off the same playbook—this time with a $1,000 moonshot target. Because why learn from history when you can just multiply percentages and hope?

Let’s break down the hopium: For XRP to hit $1,000, it’d need a market cap surpassing Apple’s. That’s right—a token banks won’t even touch would suddenly dwarf the most valuable company on Earth. But hey, in crypto, fundamentals are just speed bumps on the road to Lamboland.

The real punchline? These predictions always surface during bear markets. It’s almost like someone’s trying to juice liquidity from bagholders. *Cough* institutional exit liquidity *cough*.

BarriC XRP CommentaryBarriC XRP Commentary For context, XRP demonstrated one of the best performances by any altcoin during the 2017/2018 bull run. BarriC suggested that the asset rallied from $0.006 to an all-time high of $3.8 during this run. However, the reality was actually more impressive. Notably, XRP began in March 2017, the month in which the uptrend started, at $0.0055. That month alone, it surged 284%. The rally persisted until it hit a peak of $0.3988 in May 2017, after which, it faced resistance and consolidated for six months, until November 2017. Following this extensive consolidation period, XRP resumed the uptrend, this time, soaring to the all-time high of $3.8 in January 2018. Remarkably, the run from $0.0055 to $3.8 represented a massive 68,990% increase in less than nine months. Can XRP Surge 45,982% to $1,000? At the time, most analysts believed such an uptrend was impossible for XRP, especially considering it started the bull run on a bearish note, dropping 42% from October 2016 to March 2017. Citing this historical precedent, BarriC argues that XRP can repeat this run, noting that people often insist something is impossible until it actually happens. Notably, the pessimism around an explosive surge to $1,000 has been loud, and understandably so. For perspective, at $1,000, XRP WOULD have a fully diluted market cap of $99.98 trillion, over four times the current market cap of gold. This seems highly improbable. Finance expert Rajat Soni argued that those who eye even a $100 price for XRP have a "mental disability." Nonetheless, BarriC is convinced that XRP to $1,000 will happen, albeit not soon. For context, at the current price of $2.17, XRP must surge by a massive 45,982% to reach this $1,000 mark. Despite the upsurge necessary for this price target, BarriC believes this "impossible situation" will happen, just like it did in 2017/2018.