A recent thread by TheCryptoBasic has reignited the crypto community's imagination — what if Amazon actually started using XRP for daily payments? Let’s unpack the possibilities. 👇
🚀 The Big "What If"
Despite XRP showing recent bullish momentum, many believe it's still hugely undervalued. One reason? Its full potential as a real-world payment solution hasn't been realized yet.
And in those discussions, Amazon always finds a way in. While there’s no official partnership, rumors have floated for years — especially since RippleNet once appeared on Amazon Web Services (AWS) partner lists back in 2020. That mention alone was enough to spark endless speculation.
Now, TheCryptoBasic has gone beyond theory — presenting three speculative models for what XRP's price could be if Amazon actually adopted it at scale.
📊 3 XRP Price Models Based on Amazon Adoption
Model 1: XRP Becomes Amazon’s Default Currency
Imagine XRP being used across all of Amazon — for product purchases, Prime subscriptions, gift cards, and more.
- Annual Amazon volume: ~$700 billion
- XRP handles 30% → $210 billion
- With a transaction velocity of 2.5 → $84 billion needed in XRP backing
While this model doesn’t assign a price, it builds a solid foundation for further value projection.
Model 2: XRP as Amazon's Global Payment Rail
Now take things a step further — XRP facilitating payments not only on Amazon, but also through third-party merchants via Amazon Pay.
- Internal Amazon Payments: $150 billion
- External merchant payments: $500 billion
- Total volume: $650 billion
- Velocity of 2 → XRP base of $325 billion
- With a 5x speculative multiplier → Market Cap: $1.625 trillion
- With ~60 billion XRP in circulation → Price = ~$27
Model 3: XRP Powers Global Infrastructure
This futuristic vision places XRP at the heart of a global payment ecosystem:
- CBDC cross-border bridges
- AWS micropayments
- IoT smart transactions
- Prime membership staking
- Activity: $1 trillion globally
- 30% via XRP → $300 billion
- 8x adoption multiplier → Market Cap: $2.4 trillion
Add Models 1 & 2 ($660B) + Model 3 ($2.4T) = $3.06 trillion total market cap
Divide by 60B tokens → Speculative XRP Price: ~$51
🤔 Realistic or Just a Dream?
Let’s not forget: these projections rely on several assumptions — velocity, adoption, and speculative multipliers. So while the math checks out, it's all highly theoretical.
Still, this exercise shifts the discussion from hype to utility. If XRP truly becomes an everyday tool for payments — starting with Amazon and expanding globally — a double-digit price tag doesn’t seem impossible.
But until then? XRP remains in the single digits — and the dream continues.
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