$XRP P: Real All-Time High Finally Reached? 🔥

In a major move, $XRP surged nearly 20% in just 24 hours, hitting $3.66 on Coinbase — its highest level in over six years.

This spike has reignited a long-running debate in the crypto community: What is XRP's real all-time high ($ETH )?

The conversation took off on X (formerly Twitter) after one user claimed XRP had entered price discovery mode, suggesting the token has finally broken past its historic peak. Others were quick to challenge that, pointing back to $3.84 on Jan 4, 2018 as the ATH — a figure many traders have accepted for years.

But here’s where it gets interesting. Ripple CTO David Schwartz previously questioned those older numbers, suggesting that many ATH figures may have been inflated due to exchange rate conversions — especially from platforms using international fiat pairs. At one point, he estimated XRP’s real ATH to be closer to $2.80.

Fast forward to now — Schwartz seems to have updated his view.

Responding to the renewed discussion, he said:

“I think my $2.80 number was wrong though. The real ATH was higher than that.”

With XRP now trading at $3.46 and surpassing a $200B market cap for the first time ever (currently at $204.88B, per CoinMarketCap), even Schwartz acknowledged the possibility: