XRP remains in a technical bear market after falling 37% from its peak earlier this year. Its price is stuck at the same level where it began the year, underperforming Bitcoin, which has risen 15% in 2025.
Ripple (XRP) price was trading at $2.140 on Sunday as its volume and futures open interest remained under pressure. This article highlights the top four reasons it may jump by 50% and retest the year-to-date high of $3.4 in June.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission will decide on Franklin Templetonâs XRP ETF by June 17. Approval would likely help boost the XRP price because of the expected inflows from Wall Street investors. JPMorgan analysts estimate the fund would attract over $8 billion in funds in the first year. However, the likely scenario is that the SEC delays the approval again, possibly until October. Polymarket traders place the odds of approval by July 31 at 21%, and by the end of the year at 83%.
Crypto traders are pricing an eventual XRP price breakout in the coming weeks. The eight-hour funding rate has remained in the positive zone in the past few weeks. A positive funding rate is essential data in perpetual futures, meaning traders anticipate the price to be higher.Â
As we wrote here, there are signs that Bitcoin will make a bullish breakout. We cited the bullish forecasts by top analysts and the fact that it is forming the handle section of the cup-and-handle pattern. This pattern points to an eventual Bitcoin surge to $143,000. A Bitcoin price breakout will likely push other cryptocurrencies, including XRP, higher.
The final reason the Ripple price may break out and surge to $3.4 is its strong technicals. See below.
XRP funding rate | Source: CoinGlass
XRP technicals
The accumulation and distribution indicators point to increased accumulation. This means that XRP may now be in the accumulation phase of the Wyckoff Theory.
It will move to the markup, which has higher demand than supply.Â
XRP price chart | Source: crypto.news
The XRP price has remained slightly above the 200-day moving average. It has also formed a giant bullish pennant pattern, comprising a vertical line and a triangle. A pennant often leads to a strong bullish breakout.
XRP has also formed an inverse head-and-shoulders pattern. As such, a breakout will see it retest the resistance at $3.3842, up almost 50% from the current level.
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The crypto market slid sharply on Friday, June 6, shedding 5% over the past 24 hours as rising political tensions between President Donald Trump and Elon Musk sent investor confidence tumbling.Â
The total crypto market capitalization now stands at $3.29 trillion, down from around $4.1 trillion on June 5. According to data from Alternative, the Crypto Fear & Greed Index dropped 12 points, from 57 to 45, marking a move into âfearâ territory. This decline in sentiment follows a public clash between Trump and Musk that has also weighed heavily on traditional markets.
Bitcoin (BTC) is down 3.1% and trading at $101,843 at press time. Ethereum (ETH) leads the top 10 altcoin losses with a 7.5% slide, while Solana (SOL), XRP (XRP), and BNB (BNB) each slid about 5%. Nearly $986 million in cryptocurrency positions were liquidated in the last day, according to Coinglass data, a 358% increase.
The crypto market relative strength index dropped to 32.7, indicating oversold conditions, and open interest dropped 2.71% to $140 billion.
The market reaction followed a series of political escalations. The fallout started when Musk resigned from the Department of Government Efficiency and publicly criticized the Presidentâs recent spending bill, dubbed the Big Beautiful Bill.
In response, Trump revoked Jared Isaacmanâs NASA nomination, a close associate of Musk, and threatened to completely cut off government contracts for businesses run by Musk.
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The feud intensified on June 5 after Musk accused Trump of being connected to the Jeffrey Epstein files and supported calls for his impeachment. Trump, in turn, declared that Musk had âgone crazy.â As tensions rose, Tesla shares plunged more than 14%, and Musk announced SpaceX would begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft.
In light of the Presidentâs statement about cancellation of my government contracts, @SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately pic.twitter.com/NG9sijjkgWâ Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 5, 2025
Dogecoin (DOGE) suffered the sharpest decline among major tokens, plummeting nearly 20% in the past 24 hours. While DOGE lacks intrinsic utility, its price has long been sensitive to Muskâs actions and statements. The token had rallied following Trumpâs election win, amid hopes of crypto-friendly policies. However, investors seem to be pulling back as that optimism wanes.Â
Alongside digital assets, cryptocurrency-related stocks also suffered. Mining companies MARA, Riot Platforms, and Core Scientific all saw losses of about 5%, while Coinbase fell 4.6% and Strategy fell 2.4%.Â
Meanwhile, political uncertainty continues to attract the interest of the crypto community. Traders currently assign a 10% probability that Trump will be impeached before the end of 2025 on the decentralized prediction platform Polymarket. So far, almost half a million dollars has been wagered on that outcome.
Market volatility may persist in the coming days as macro risks increase and sentiment toward cryptocurrencies declines.
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River 的 Leishman 表示,虽然量子计算对比特币的安全构成了威胁,但银行已经采取了多种防御措施来防止大规模崩溃。
关于量子计算机是否会威胁比特币(BTC)的争论再次升温,River 首席执行官 Alexander Leishman 认为比特币面临的风险比传统银行系统更大。
辩论比特币量子威胁的时间表是非常公平的。我个人非常怀疑这是一个短期问题。然而,很多人都说“QC 会毁掉一切,包括整个银行系统,所以如果比特币毁掉一切,那一切都会毁掉”。这是……— Alexander Leishman ðºð¸ (@Leishman) 2025 年 2 月 20 日
在 2 月 21 日的 X 帖子中,Leishman 解释说,对于比特币来说,资金的安全性完全取决于私钥。一旦公钥被泄露,量子计算机就可以轻松访问资金。
“这里没有任何保护层来保护任何带有公开公钥的地址。毫无疑问,如果您有权访问 QC,这是迄今为止最能获得投资回报的攻击。”
亚历山大·莱什曼
然而,莱什曼认为,银行系统更安全。虽然量子计算机可以破坏用于保护在线通信的 HTTPS 加密,但攻击者仍然需要拦截流量并劫持 DNS,然后才能访问银行系统。
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Leishman 解释说,银行还使用 IP 白名单和对称密码认证等额外的安全层,这些层不易受到量子计算机的攻击。
âEven if you do manage to pop a bank you need to get that money somewhere. Everything is very KYCâd with a lot of manual controls around large movements of funds. Good luck moving millions or billions without a human catching something.â
亚历山大·莱什曼
虽然量子计算对比特币构成了潜在威胁,但在近期内还不必担心。然而,最近的发展表明,量子计算可能比之前想象的更接近现实。
2 月 19 日,微软推出了一款新型量子芯片,声称它表明量子计算只需“几年,而不是几十年”的时间就能实现。这款所谓的 Majorana 1 芯片旨在降低量子计算容易出错的特性,并得到了即将在《自然》杂志上发表的一篇科学论文的支持。
尽管科技界对于量子计算将在何时产生影响仍存在一些疑问,但谷歌和 IBM 等公司预测大规模量子计算机将可能在 2033 年投入运行。
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The crypto market crash continued on Friday as profit-taking accelerated and concerns about trade and the Federal Reserve deepened.
Bitcoin (BTC) price dropped to $105,500, down from the all-time high of $111,900 last week. The other top laggards were altcoins like PancakeSwap (CAKE), Raydium (RAY), Ethena (ENA), and Arbitrum (ARB), which dropped by over 10%.
The crypto market crash triggered a wave of liquidations. CoinGlass data shows that 24-hour liquidations jumped by 125% to $709 million. Almost 224,000 traders were liquidated, with the largest loss amounting to nearly $13 million.
Cryptocurrencies retreated as Bitcoin lost momentum following its strong rally that pushed it to its all-time high last week. It is common for Bitcoinâs price to pull back slightly after hitting a record high or a crucial milestone.
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When Bitcoin sneezes, altcoins catch a cold. This explains why many altcoins have crashed even harder.
Second, Bitcoin and altcoins have declined in anticipation of June, which is typically the second-worst month for the crypto market after September. On average, Bitcoin returns -0.35% in June, as many investors take time off at the start of the summer season.
Third, there are lingering concerns about trade after a court ruled that Trumpâs tariffs were illegal. Another court allowed these tariffs to continue as the administration appeals, a process that will take it to the Supreme Court.
Finally, there are signs that the Federal Reserve will hold interest rates steady at 4.50% for a while. Minutes released this week showed that officials are comfortable with a wait-and-see approach as they assess the impact of tariffs on inflation.
Is this crypto market crash the end of the bull run?
Technicals and fundamentals suggest that the crypto bull run has a long way to go. As crypto.news wrote here,the ongoing Bitcoin price action is part of the formation of the handle section of the cup and handle pattern. It is also forming a bullish flag pattern, which could result in a strong breakout and an altcoin market rally.
Bitcoin price chart | Source: crypto.news
The other sign that the bull market is not over is Bitcoinâs supply and demand dynamics. Demand continues to rise, with ETFs bringing in over $45 billion in inflows and more companies adding it to their treasuries.
The supply on exchanges has dropped from 3.5 million in 2020 to 1.35 million. Therefore, this supply and demand dynamic suggests the coin will bounce back.
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