XRP Hits Two-Month Price High in Wake of Ether Rally
XRP, the cryptocurrency used in Ripple Labs’ payments network, is rallying on the coattails of altcoin leader ether (ETH, +1.15%)‘s recent move to record highs. XRP rose to $0.72 early Monday to hit the highest level since Feb. 2 and was last seen changing hands near $0.70. The third-largest cryptocurrency by market value has gained 18% in the past 24 hours, according to CoinDesk 20 data.
The price rise comes three days after the Ethereum blockchain’s ether token set new lifetime highs near $2,100. Since then, the second-largest coin has established a foothold above $2,000, helping XRP and few other alternative cryptocurrencies such as tron (TRX, +20.47%), stellar (XLM, +17.28%), orchid (OXT, +23.37%), bitcoin cash (BCH, +9.99%), and eos (+12.06%) score gains amid the dull action in bitcoin (BTC, +1.17%) – the crypto market leader.
“We’re not seeing anything specific to XRP and the move feels more like an altcoin season type move given outperformance in other tokens as well,” Joel Kruger, currency strategist at LMAX Digital, told CoinDesk. Names like TRON and siacoin (SC, +18.11%) “are performing even better than XRP on this more thinly traded Easter holiday Monday.”
With a move to two-month highs, XRP has now completely reversed losses suffered in December after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a case against Ripple for raising $1.3 billion by selling XRP in unregistered securities offerings. Ripple executives’ attorney James K Filan tweeted on Saturday that Ripple and the SEC have reached an agreement to keep the payment company’s two of the four private email correspondences from being scrutinized under the ongoing lawsuit. So far, analysts are not sure if that’s powering XRP higher.
Top Cryptocurrencies with Price Predictions
| # | Crypto | Prediction | Accuracy | CVIX | Price | 24h | 7d | Market Cap | 7d price change | |
| 1 |  BTC |
Bitcoin predictions | 64% | 76 | $61 260.18 | -3.02% | -0.54% | $1 154 847 886 762 |  |
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| 2 |  ETH |
Ethereum predictions | 69.6% | 57 | $4 024.37 | -3.05% | 4.78% | $475 029 097 178 |  |
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| 3 |  BNB |
Binance Coin predictions | 68.8% | 60 | $481.66 | 0.28% | 1.80% | $80 341 547 819 |  |
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| 4 |  ADA |
Cardano predictions | 91.2% | 12 | $2.16 | -1.14% | -2.37% | $70 995 337 627 |  |
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| 5 |  USDT |
Tether predictions | 91.2% | 1 | $1.000149 | 0% | 0.08% | $69 584 487 051 |  |
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| 6 |  SOL |
Solana predictions | 71.6% | 54 | $202.97 | 1.04% | 28.02% | $61 059 730 630 |  |
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| 7 |  XRP |
XRP predictions | 71.2% | 50 | $1.093272 | -1.25% | -3.76% | $51 325 127 678 |  |
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| 8 |  DOT |
Polkadot predictions | 65.2% | 79 | $44.49 | -0.97% | 2.43% | $43 937 978 522 |  |
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| 9 |  DOGE |
Dogecoin predictions | 72.8% | 56 | $0.246292 | 0.45% | 4.22% | $32 461 382 763 |  |
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| 10 |  USDC |
USD Coin predictions | 91.6% | 1 | $1.000400 | 0.05% | 0.08% | $32 427 441 530 |  |
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| 11 |  LUNA |
Terra predictions | 67.6% | 65 | $42.91 | 3.36% | 16.19% | $17 231 391 175 |  |
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| 12 |  UNI |
UniSwap predictions | 74% | 47 | $25.71 | -3.55% | -0.58% | $15 728 216 583 |  |
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| 13 |  AVAX |
Avalanche predictions | 66% | 65 | $67.18 | 4.25% | 18.98% | $14 799 377 874 |  |
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| 14 |  WBTC |
Wrapped Bitcoin predictions | 62.4% | 75 | $61 271.65 | -3.09% | -0.48% | $13 546 735 109 |  |
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| 15 |  LINK |
Chainlink predictions | 75.2% | 50 | $28.91 | -1.77% | 6.80% | $13 326 500 471 |  |
