#XRP Slides to Two-Month Lows Amid Geopolitical Tensions and Technical Breakdown
XRP is facing significant resistance at $2.33 as it battles multiple headwinds—geopolitical fears, legal overhang, and bearish technical patterns—amid a broader market pullback. On Friday, the token fell to $2.0856, its lowest level in over a week, before staging a mild recovery to $2.1729 on Saturday.
In this article, we examine why XRP is falling, what the charts suggest next, and where price forecasts stand heading into the second half of 2025.
Why Is XRP Going Down? A Combination of Geopolitics and Chart Weakness
XRP has posted four straight days of losses, dropping over 10% from Tuesday’s peak near $2.32. This decline aligns with a wider crypto market slump after Israel’s airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities spooked global investors. As capital fled to traditional safe havens like gold, the Swiss franc, and the yen, risk assets including crypto sold off.
Despite macro weakness, XRP did receive long-awaited legal clarity this week. Ripple and the SEC jointly filed to release $125 million from escrow, with $50 million going to the SEC as a civil penalty and $75 million returning to Ripple—marking a potential end to the 4.5-year legal saga.
This resolution avoids the need for further appeals and conserves judicial resources,” attorneys wrote in the joint filing.
Technically, XRP has failed multiple times to break above $2.33, forming a head-and-shoulders pattern with a neckline at $2.285—a classic bearish signal. The price declined from $2.288 to $2.260 on heavy volume, a 3.7% drop in a single session.
Even as XRP briefly bounced from the $2.250 double bottom, the recovery came on waning volume, indicating reduced buying interest.