{"id":21098,"date":"2025-04-08T12:32:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T12:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=21098"},"modified":"2025-04-08T12:32:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T12:32:13","slug":"xrp-could-hit-12-5-before-president-trumps-term-ends-standard-chartered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=21098","title":{"rendered":"XRP Could Hit $12.5 Before President Trump&#8217;s Term Ends: Standard Chartered"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>XRP could rise to $12.50 before President Trump leaves office, investment bank Standard Chartered (STAN) said in a report on Tuesday initiating coverage of the Ripple-related token.<\/p>\n<p>Standard Chartered predicts that XRP will reach $5.50 by the end of this year, $8 by 2026 year-end, $10.40 by the end of 2027, and $12.50 by end-2028. At the time of writing, XRP was trading almost 9% higher at $1.94.<\/p>\n<p>The bank noted that XRP rose sixfold following Donald Trump&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/news-analysis\/2024\/11\/15\/what-does-trumps-win-mean-for-crypto\" target=\"_blank\">election victory<\/a> in November, reflecting expectations that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) would drop its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/markets\/2025\/03\/19\/xrp-zooms-10-higher-as-garlinghouse-says-sec-is-dropping-case-against-ripple\" target=\"_blank\">appeal against Ripple<\/a>, and because of the potential approval of XRP exchange-traded funds (ETFs).<\/p>\n<p>Such gains are sustainable, the bank said, in part due to leadership changes at the SEC, but also because &#8220;XRP is uniquely positioned at the heart of one of the fastest-growing use cases for digital assets &#8211; facilitation of cross-border and cross-currency payments.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;XRPL is similar to the main use case for stablecoins such as Tether: blockchain-enabled financial transactions that have traditionally been done through traditional financial (TradFi) institutions,&#8221; wrote Geoffrey Kendrick, head of digital assets research at Standard Chartered Bank.<\/p>\n<p>Stablecoin transactions are expected to increase tenfold in the next four years, the report said. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/learn\/what-is-a-stablecoin\" target=\"_blank\">Stablecoins<\/a> are cryptocurrencies whose value is tied to another asset, such as the U.S. dollar or gold. They play a major role in cryptocurrency markets and are also used for to transfer money internationally.<\/p>\n<p>Ripple is also planning to push XRPL into the tokenization space, the bank noted. <a href=\"https:\/\/xrpl.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">XRPL<\/a> is XRP&#8217;s decentralized public blockchain, and is used for payments.<\/p>\n<p>These positive factors mean that XRP should keep up with its larger peer bitcoin (BTC), in terms of price appreciation, the bank said.<\/p>\n<p>XRPL suffers from two flaws, the small number of developers and its limited value capture, but these are more than offset by positive tailwinds, the report added.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/markets\/2025\/04\/08\/first-xrp-etf-in-the-u-s-to-go-live-on-tuesday-with-launch-of-teucrium-s-leveraged-fund\" target=\"_blank\"><u>First XRP ETF in the U.S. to Go Live on Tuesday With Launch of Teucrium\u2019s Leveraged Fund<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>XRP could rise to $12.50 before President Trump leaves office, investment bank Standard Chartered (STAN) said in a report on Tuesday initiating coverage of the Ripple-related token. Standard Chartered predicts that XRP will reach $5.50 by the end of this year, $8 by 2026 year-end, $10.40 by the end of 2027, and $12.50 by end-2028. 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