XRP price prediction: the $1.29 zone decides, not the escrow release

Start with what is established: XRP costs $1.33 on Wednesday midday, 2.07 percent more than 24 hours earlier, and stands around 10 percent below its level of a month ago. In four days, on November 1, the next escrow contract expires, one of those with which Ripple has kept part of its XRP holdings locked since 2017. Our assessment follows below: by our own measurements the release is no price driver, and the level that really counts this week sits lower. Where the price can go over a horizon of months is set out in our XRP price prediction. Where things stand on Wednesday midday The price has been moving in a narrow range since the weekend. The daily low is $1.30, the daily high $1.34, and over the past 24 hours XRP worth $1.64 billion changed hands. With a market capitalisation of $84.2 billion, XRP ranks fifth among the largest cryptocurrencies. Over a week the figure is down 1.31 percent, over a month down 10.24 percent. The all-time high of $3.65, reached on July 17, 2025, is 63.6 percent away. The distance on the downside is smaller than the monthly balance suggests: the low of the past 30 days dates from October 18 and sits at $1.2927, barely three percent below the current l...