Fourteen years old and bleeding. The XRP price slumped to roughly $1.15 this week, a four-month low, on the very date the token was created in 2012. The timing is almost poetic, and not in a good way. What’s still up for debate is whether this is capitulation or just the beginning of a deeper slide.
The intraday drop to $1.15 triggered around $30M in liquidations from leveraged traders, a wave of forced selling that accelerated the move and temporarily allowed USDC to leapfrog XRP as the fifth-largest crypto by market cap on CoinGecko.
XRP’s market cap now sits below $75Bn, down from over $85Bn just days ago. The broader market is also ugly, but the timing of XRP’s birthday drew particular attention across crypto social media.
The broader context matters here: this crash follows several consecutive rejections between $1.50 and $1.60, with the most recent failure occurring in mid-May when XRP briefly touched $1.55 before reversing hard. That pattern of lower highs is now colliding with deteriorating macro sentiment, a combination that rarely ends quickly.
Can XRP Price Recover to $1.50 or Is $1.10 Next?
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The price remains under pressure and XRP is now testing the February lows. I don´t see any setup that would confirm the beginning of wave (c) to the upside. Please note that B-waves can overshoot to the downside. It is also possible that the next decline has already begun,… https://t.co/SdCFrWm6kt pic.twitter.com/ubkCRqRMNW— More Crypto Online (@Morecryptoonl) June 4, 2026
The technical picture is genuinely binary right now. $1.12 is seen as the critical lower trendline of a symmetrical triangle on the daily chart. XRP has already pierced that level intraday; if sustained on a closing basis, it confirms a downside resolution of the pattern.
Analyst Ali Martinez puts the next logical target at approximately $1.14, where a cluster of pivot supports sits alongside the $1.117 and $1.039 levels flagged in Intellectia’s pivot analysis.
Three scenarios to watch:
- Bull case: XRP closes above $1.20 and squeezes shorts back toward $1.36–$1.41, potentially flipping the triangle structure bullish.
- Base case: Consolidation between $1.12 and $1.20 as the market digests liquidations, choppy, directionless, frustrating.
- Bear case: A sustained close below $1.10 opens the door to $1.14 and potentially the $1.039 support zone. Longer-horizon analysts still cite upside targets of $4.50–$5.18 for 2026, but those remain contingent on a decisive structural recovery from right here.
The CME futures data and evolving US ETF discussions could shift sentiment fast, but for now, the chart controls the narrative.
LiquidChain Eyes the Fragmentation Problem XRP Can’t Solve
XRP’s birthday crash highlights a structural frustration in crypto: assets built for one ecosystem remain prisoners of that ecosystem’s sentiment cycles. When BTC sneezes, XRP catches a cold, and leveraged traders pay the full price. That dynamic is precisely the problem a new wave of infrastructure projects is trying to solve at the architecture level.
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