Prediction: XRP Could Be Worth $600 Billion in 5 Years
May 16, 2025 — 06:30 am EDT
Written by Dominic Basulto for The Motley Fool
XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) has been one of the top-performing cryptocurrencies of 2025. It's now up almost 25% year to date, and currently trades at a price of about $2.54, giving XRP a total market cap of $150 billion.
That's just the beginning of XRP's resurgence. The world's third-most valuable cryptocurrency could quadruple in price and be worth $600 billion within just five years. Here's one way that it could play out.
How fast does XRP have to grow?
On the surface, a $600 billion valuation for XRP might appear unrealistic. After all, that's twice the current valuation of Ethereum.
So let's do a little math and consider the following question: How fast would XRP need to grow on a year-over-year basis to hit a market cap of $600 billion within five years?
The numbers might surprise you. XRP would need to grow at an annualized rate of 15% to double in price within five years. It would need to grow at an annualized rate of 25% to triple in price. And it would need to grow at an annualized rate of 32% to quadruple in price.
When you start to think about XRP from this perspective, the $600 billion number makes a lot more sense. The hard part is finding new business opportunities that are capable of growing at a fairly brisk 30% rate during the next five years.
