A sharp debate has opened inside the XRP community over whether the token could ever reach the kind of eye-popping prices some enthusiasts 1 and theory are being thrown 2 limits are being argued right 3 Reading: Bitcoin Rockets Past $119K, Analysts Now Eye $130K Target Market Cap Math And Limits According to reports, the numbers make a simple point: with a circulating supply of close to 60 billion XRP, a price of $1,000 would value the token at about $59.91 4 total would more than double the market cap of gold and top many of the biggest assets on 5 analysts use that math to say such prices are not realistic any time 6 argument rests on a basic idea — money supply and valuation interact, and extreme price targets imply extreme market 7 Predicts 14% Of SWIFT Volume At the XRPL Apex event in Singapore in 2025, US-based Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse drew a line between messaging systems and actual 8 on reports from that stage, he told a journalist that XRPL’s future depends more on liquidity than on messaging 9 estimated the ledger could handle about 14% of SWIFT’s global transaction volume within five 10 figure is large, but it is an adoption target that sits far below the trillion-dollar claims floated elsewhere.
I keep telling everyone, the problem crypto solves is 11 can’t print more money to create liquidity, that will just collapse 12 you can have limitless (almost unlimited) liquidity simply by having say a token like XRP reaches $10k, that will create over $800T… 0 — Vincent Van Code (@vincent_vancode) October 2, 2025 A Different Way To See Liquidity Software engineer Vincent Van Code pushed a contrasting 13 to Van Code, XRP should be judged as a tool that can move liquidity around, not as an asset that must be fully cashed out into fiat to 14 Reading: Fast And Furious: XRP’s Next Rally Predicted To Shock Markets He proposed that, at a $10,000 price, XRP could unlock more than $800 trillion in 15 Code used an analogy likened to a logarithmic decay to explain why converting that liquidity to cash would not simply crash 16 point: market mechanics and swap processes could expand usable liquidity without requiring a one-to-one conversion into existing money supplies.
Easily, because it is just a “swap” or bridge 17 in FX is more about available trading pairs than simply loads of currency. Further, where that liquidity is sitting in 18 point is more related to economic and monetary policy, which is vastly different… — Vincent Van Code (@vincent_vancode) October 3, 2025 Critics Point To Central Banks And Money Supply Other market participants have pushed 19 note that central banks control liquidity through tools like QE and QT, and that broader money measures such as M2 keep 20 show M2 has continued to grow over time in many 21 critics ask why governments would hand over control of liquidity to a neutral digital 22 also warn that the math Van Code uses assumes wide adoption, large trading pairs, and guaranteed counterparty trust — all hard to 23 image from Gemini, chart from TradingView
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