The monthly chart of XRP/BTC has finally reached the long diagonal that has been capped by XRP since 2018, and one analyst at Posting under the handle X Finance Bull (XFB), That’s what the analyst argued XRP will soon outperform Bitcoin.
This is because the XRP/BTC pair has not only broken out but also retested the trendline as support, and this has start of a new build-up of momentum.
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Retesting a six-year breakout trendline
The mid-October flash crash that rippled through the crypto market left a visible mark on the XRP/BTC chart, creating a deep downside fuse that temporarily dipped below the long-standing resistance trendline. However, when Bitcoin started to recover above $110,000, XRP struggled to keep up and lost ground against Bitcoin.
Interestingly, price action shows that this move was short-lived, and XRP has started to recover against Bitcoin during recent trading sessions. As shown in the monthly candlestick time chart below, the wick dropped to the exact level of the breakout retest, a point where previous resistance turned into new support.
This breakout occurred in late 2024/early 2025, when XRP outperformed Bitcoin for three consecutive months. From there, the XRP/Bitcoin pair was able to break out of a downward resistance trendline of lower highs over a six-year period.
Since then, however, 2025 has been characterized by more months in which Bitcoin outperforms XRP than months in which XRP outperforms Bitcoin, with October falling in the first group of months. Notably, during the flash crash, the
XRP/Bitcoin 1M Chart. Source: @Xfinancebull
Since that retest, XRP has recovered impressively, with the pair maintaining a monthly close above the diagonal that once served as a ceiling. This technical confirmation marks the completion of the breakout of the downtrend from 2018 to 2024 that had defined XRP’s years of underperformance against Bitcoin. The monthly structure is now showing the first signs of an upward shift, with the pair trading around 0.00002258 BTC.
XRP to Decouple Bitcoin and Outperform?
According to the analyst, XRP is about to undergo a rally that will vastly outperform Bitcoin and melt the faces of many Bitcoin maximalists. XFB’s chart outlines two target zones for XRP: 0.00014688 BTC and 0.00023009 BTC. The first target corresponds to the consolidation area between 2018 and 2019, while the second represents a large resistance cluster from the earlier phase of XRP’s establishment. If XRP/BTC rises to those levels, it would amount to approximately a gain of 6x and 10x respectively against Bitcoin.
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The analyst also connects the technical setup Ripple’s growing institutional ecosystem. He pointed to Ripple Prime, GTreasury, Metaco, Standard Custody and Rail as part of the infrastructure XRP is setting up to bridge global finance. These partnerships give XRP will gain an edge in the coming months as it becomes a true institutional utility and outperforms Bitcoin.
If these developments continuethe upcoming decoupling of the XRP/BTC pair could become one of the most important events for XRP. At the time of writing, XRP is trading at $3.63, up 3.5% in the last 24 hours.
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