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The SEC just made its biggest crypto classification move in years, placing major tokens such as Ethereum, Solana, Cardano, Dogecoin, Avalanche, XRP, and Chainlink into a “digital commodities” bucket while saying some token sales can stop being treated as securities-law cases once the issuer’s core promises are fulfilled. Paired with a new SEC-CFTC coordination framework, […]
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Popular crypto pundit TARA has published a five-cycle Fibonacci roadmap for XRP on X, projecting that the crypto’s price will eventually surpass $100 in the long term. The projections, which are based on 0.618 extension targets applied to XRP’s 12-month candlestick chart, trace a sequence of progressively higher cycle peaks, each one separated by corrections and extended accumulation periods, that culminate in a Cycle 5 top of $153. Macro Targets For XRP TARA’s projection framework begins with a pricepoint that is already settled history. Cycle 1, which she noted as complete, produced a top price of $3.65. This is relating to XRP’s current all-time high registered in July 2025. That confirmed peak is the anchor for the entire projection. Each subsequent cycle target is derived using Fibonacci extension methodology applied to XRP’s price structure on the larger timeframe. Related Reading: Why The XRP Price Might Crash To $0.87 Before The Bear Market Ends The next three cycles form the bridge between XRP’s current price and the psychologically significant $100 threshold. TARA projected Cycle 2 will peak near $8.68, applying the 0.618 Fibonacci extension to the range established by Cycle 1. Cycle 3 follows with a projected top of approximately $22.50, and Cycle 4 extends the same 0.618 Fibonacci sequence to a peak around $59. When Will The Altcoin Reach $100? The most notable outcome from the projection is where the $100 level appears. According to the analyst, XRP does not reach triple digits in the next one or two cycles. Instead, the milestone only comes into view in Cycle 5, where the projected top is at $153. Related Reading: First Bullish Wick Appears On XRP Weekly Chart, And This Analyst Says It Will Send Price To $21.5 There is no specific timeline attached to when XRP could cross $100. The analysis is centered strictly on price progression across macro cycles, leaving out any time-based predictions. The analyst also made it clear that each upward move would be followed by pullbacks, describing the journey as one that unfolds through many waves, repeated corrections, and a span of several years. At the time of writing, XRP is trading at $1.52, and the $153 price target represents a gain of more than 10,000% from today. However, predictions about XRP breaking above $100 are not new among crypto analysts. In fact, the idea has been circulating for months. Some projections have been really extreme, with one analyst even arguing that XRP could reach $100 before Bitcoin climbs to $1 million. On the other side of the debate, a few market commentators have pushed back strongly on this $100 price projection. Some crypto participants have pointed to the scale of inflows required for XRP to hit $100, noting that it would imply a multi-trillion-dollar market capitalization that exceeds the largest companies in the world. Even Ripple’s CTO has publicly cast doubt on the likelihood of XRP reaching $100 in the near term. Featured image from Adobe Stock, chart from Tradingview.com
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XRP is beginning to show the kind of price behavior that traders usually watch for when a downtrend starts running out of steam. A technical setup of XRP’s price action shows a cryptocurrency that has already absorbed months of selling pressure and is now trying to build a base above a key support zone. Although the analysis does not suggest that XRP has already broken into a full bullish trend, it does show that the decline has slowed down, and price is starting to stabilize where buyers are stepping in. A Downtrend That Has Worn Itself Out Technical analysis shows that XRP spent part of September and early October in a consolidation band before rolling over into a broad decline that lasted for months. That downtrend remained intact into early 2026, when another sell-off pushed the price below $1.30 very briefly in February. Related Reading: Ex-UK Prime Minister Blasts Bitcoin, Here’s What He Said Instead of leading a deeper collapse, however, that drop appears to have created an area where sellers began losing momentum. This drawdown is shown in a clearly defined descending channel visible on the daily chart shared on the social media platform X by crypto analyst BitGuru. The analyst behind the outlook described this as trend exhaustion, and the chart supports that idea. The downward channel that formed from January into February eventually broke down into a stabilization zone, not another leg lower. XRP then began holding above nearby support, and the price action is now trading around the mid-$1.40s on the chart. That is a notable change from the earlier pattern, because it means that the XRP price is no longer making clean lower lows with the same confidence. XRP Price Chart. Source: @bitgu_ru On X Why The Setup Points To A Move Higher Just as important, the chart places a nearby support band around roughly $1.33 to $1.34, while the invalidation area sits much lower, near the $0.88 region. As long as XRP keeps defending increasingly higher support levels and avoids falling back into that earlier breakdown structure, then there is still the case for a price jump. Related Reading: Why Bitcoin Price Could Stage A Stronger Rally Than Previous Bull Markets The technical analysis shows the XRP price basing just above a green accumulation zone, with an upside path pointing into a broader target area that stretches into the low-$2 range. At the time of writing, XRP is trading at $1.52. Sustained strength in the next few days can open the path toward a medium-term recovery. Based on the levels shown in the chart above, the first price objective is around $1.88. A sustained close above $1.88 would represent a meaningful structural shift and open the door to a retest of levels last seen in early 2026. More ambitious medium-term targets are between $2.09 and $2.20. Featured image created with Dall.E, chart from Tradingview.com