XRP (XRP) Price Prediction: Targeting $18,000 By 2030

After President Trump's election victory, XRP price reached new highs, re-testing its all-time high of $3.41.

The speculative nature of cryptocurrencies can be astounding, and in a way, it personifies the idea that “anything is fair game” when it comes to valuation. These analyses can thread a thin line between being respectable or ridiculed.

For instance, in 2018-2019, tossing the idea of a $100,000 Bitcoin (BTC) price was considered so absurd that renowned economists took offense and condemned the mere thoughts of such statements. Bitcoin certainly got the last laugh in that case.

Now, in 2025, the same optimism is flowing within another ferociously loyal community—the XRP (XRP) army. After President Trump’s election victory, XRP price reached new highs, re-testing its all-time high of $3.41. After four years of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) breathing down on Ripple’s neck, the infamous securities case still awaits a resolution.

As a result of XRP rallying to new all-time highs, even larger predictions like “$XRP to $100” or “$XRP to $1,000” have flooded social media platforms over the past three months. However, one unique research report takes the predictions to new highs, with the analyst forecasting an $18,000 price target for XRP.

XRP to $18,000?

In June 2023, a month before Judge Analisa Torres declared XRP a "security," a valuation white paper named "A Comprehensive Approach To Determine The Fair Market Value Of XRP" was released by Valhill Capital.

The white paper, which was written by multiple authors and presenters, presented five valuation models to evaluate XRP’s long-term price, with "XRP Valuation Model #4" being the most ideal outlook based on token utility and future global adoption.

Utilizing the Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) approach, the basic assumption taken was that Ripple would handle a large portion of global transactions in the next 10 years, generating fees on the XRP Ledger (XRPL) and possibly tokenizing a substantial portion of global wealth, while replacing traditional remittance systems like SWIFT. The valuation analysis was carried out based on the following data:

Base Global Transaction Volume: $104 Trillion

Economic Growth Rate (Over 10 years, 2023-2032): 2%

Applied Discount Rate: 10%

Total Transaction Present Value: $915 Trillion

XRP Circulating Supply: $50.7 billion

Price per XRP: $18,036

In a perfect world for Ripple Labs and the XRP army, where the XRP ledger becomes the bedrock of the global financial remittance system, the community would have the wealth to go to war with any independent nation.

Taking the model at face value in 2025, Cointelegraph analyzed if the expected adoption rate is progressing as predicted.

Fact-checking XRP rumors and reality

As of February 28, 2025, there is no official confirmation from any authoritative source that XRP has been fully incorporated by a U.S. bank for cross-border payments or internal transactions.

While reports and rumors on social media claim otherwise, no U.S. bank has publicly announced integrating XRP for transactional purposes.

On the other hand, reports by crypto news outlets and economists have stated that PNC Bank and Bank of America are among the financial institutions that partnered with RippleNet.

Regarding Bank of America (BofA), one clip that went viral on X includes Sound Planning Group CEO David Stryzewski stating that the financial institution has been utilizing RippleNet and XRP for "100% of its internal transactions" for two years. However, the inconsistency in data is bluntly evident.

The average daily internal transactions carried out by a financial institution of BofA size are around 1.2 to 1.5 million. XRPL has not managed transactional operations of that size for any two years since 2018.

Stryzewkski also mentioned that XRP was the second-largest crypto asset before the SEC filed its case against Ripple on December 22, 2020. The last time XRP was above Ethereum (ETH) based on market capitalization was in January 2019, almost two years before the SEC knocked on the door.

Another incident that caps off the speculative nature of XRP developments stems at Wells Fargo's expense. In August 2024, Wells Fargo allegedly approved using XRP for settling credit card and loan payments, which Rick Lange, a certified financial planner, extensively spoke about on LinkedIn.

However, Wells Fargo employee Vittorio DiBenedetto left a comment in January 2025, stating, "It's not true. I work for Wells Fargo, and we're not using any cryptocurrency for payment processing."