XRP’s recent price action in 2025 was more of a dynamic move than a simple sideways move. After a strong rally earlier in 2025 and reaching new all-time highs, the cryptocurrency has spent much of the past few months digesting those profits through withdrawals and consolidations.
That structure was referenced in a chart shared by Steph on social media platform
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XRP completes nearly 400 days of sideways accumulation
According to to Steph’s analysis, XRP has just completed roughly 393 days of sideways accumulation, a duration that almost perfectly matches the 395-day consolidation phase it went through between 2016 and 2017.
During that earlier cycle, XRP continued to move within a relative range for months, causing choppy price action. This type of extensive consolidation reflects an equilibrium between buyers and sellers, with neither side being strong enough to force a decisive trend.
In 2017, that equilibrium led to a transition to a different technical formation of a descending channel before it broke out. The current setup in 2024-2025 shows, at least structurally, that XRP is once again spending an unusually long time building a base in a range. A more detailed look at the graph shows another important similarity with the transition to another descending channel.
In the 2016-2017 cycle, XRP transitioned from a sideways move to a descending channel, causing its price to gradually decline over several months. That downward-sloping structure was eventually resolved with a sharp upward break.
The 2024-2025 chart shows XRP moving through a similar descending channel, with the price compressing towards the lower limit before shows early signs of an outbreak while attention is still low.
XRP price comparison. Source: @Steph_iscrypto on X
What to expect for XRP
The 2016-2017 chart segment above shows XRP trading for approximately 395 days in a wide sideways range between approximately $0.005 and $0.01. When XRP broke out of the declining channel in early 2017, its price rose very quickly, first recovering $0.01 and then rising past $0.03 and $0.05 within a few days. The expansion didn’t stop there, as XRP eventually rose to the $0.40 region later that year, cementing XRP’s first 5,000% move in its history.
The 2024-2025 chart shows XRP peaking near the $3.40 zone before entering a sideways consolidation phase in 2025. The price action is now in the descending channel viz gradually compressed the $1.70-$1.90 range.
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That channel now resembles where XRP was in 2017 before the breakout, adjusted for scale. A similar 5,000% move from the current price action zone would mathematically project the XRP price to about $100.
Featured image from Unsplash, chart from TradingView