XRP has spent the last few months in a frustrating position, regarding its price still trading around the same zone that many property owners expected to leave behind long ago. However, XRP enthusiast Luke believes that this phase should should not be mistaken for the end of the asset’s long-term story.
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The current price of XRP is in a temporary hibernation phase
The XRP price has spent most of 2026 tumbling caught in a range between $1.30 and $1.45, down more than 60% from its January high and down about 25% from where it started the year. This has led to a gap between Ripple’s institutional momentum and XRP’s price performance.
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Through the social media platform Lukas noticed that XRP is currently trading around $1.40 and does not reflect what it could become if the next phase of crypto adoption is led by regulated financial products. Therefore, the current price action should be viewed as a temporary hibernation phase before the intermediate phase and then the final price phase.
This is why the analyst noted that XRP will trade somewhere between $18 and $25 at an intermediate stage, but this is not the final destination. According to him, XRP’s current situation is only temporary because the market has not fully priced in what Ripple has built up behind the scenes.
The last part of the price outlook goes beyond the $18 target, and the forecast is that XRP could eventually move triple digits once the institutions fully wake up and the infrastructure around Ripple and XRP is enabled.
$10,000 price is not a fantasy
Luke’s prediction puts XRP trading at five figures on the higher side. That higher claim is speculative, especially its reference to $10,000 XRP, which would require an extreme restructuring of global liquidity and market valuation assumptions. According to him, this price target is not a fantasy. It is global liquidity at scale.
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Speaking of global liquidity on a grand scale, Ripple has long positioned XRP as its North Star. That vision has become harder to ignore in 2026, as Ripple has built important ties with institutions such as Germany’s Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan and Mastercard’s $9 trillion payment network. But despite these developments, the price has remained largely unchanged.
Luke’s reasoning aligns with the views of many members of the XRP community who predict extravagant price targets for the cryptocurrency. She have received criticism from other realistic traders, but this has not stopped bullish expectations. These bullish price expectations are driving the XRP price well above its current all-time high and heading towards price targets ranging from $10 to as high as $10,000.
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