XRP price action has slowed somewhat over the past 24 hours, with the token now trading around $1.42. After the big moves seen across the crypto market in the past week or so, XRP appears to be entering a period of consolidation as traders assess whether the latest rally has enough strength for another leg higher.
Despite the quieter short-term action, the longer-term outlook remains highly bullish for some analysts. Javon Marks and Celal Kucuker, two analysts whose XRP outlooks we regularly cover at CaptainAltcoin, have both released fresh XRP price projections.
Even though they use different technical setups, each sees the possibility of XRP eventually returning to (and potentially moving well beyond) its previous all-time high.
Javon Marks Sees XRP Setting Up for a Move Toward $15
Javon Marks is returning to an XRP setup that has worked particularly well for him before. The analyst noted that he previously called XRP’s move from around $0.50 to above $3.30, representing gains of more than 530%.
Now, Marks believes the chart could be setting up for another substantial expansion.
His long-term chart compares XRP’s current structure with its behavior during the 2017 cycle. In both cases, the important feature is not simply a price breakout but the sequence that precedes it: an extended consolidation, an apparent breakdown near the end of that structure, followed by a sharp recovery.
The chart shows this occurring before XRP’s explosive 2017 advance. Marks argues that a much larger version of the same general structure subsequently developed between the 2018 peak and the recent breakout.
More importantly, the XRP price has formed a smaller descending wedge or bull-flag-like structure after its latest advance. The chart indicates XRP may now be attempting to break out of this formation.
Source: X/@JavonTM1
Marks wrote that the smaller breakout could act as the trigger for continuation above XRP’s previous highs.
His measured-move objective sits at approximately $15.
That would represent a gain of more than 875% from the area highlighted in his analysis. Marks also points to an interesting historical comparison: XRP reached a similar measured target following its 2017 structural breakout, but ultimately continued significantly beyond that initial objective.
That doesn’t mean the same outcome has to repeat. The bullish thesis depends first on XRP maintaining the breakout from its larger structure and then confirming the breakout from the smaller formation. Still, the chart provides a clear framework: hold the larger breakout, confirm the smaller one, and the path toward new highs becomes considerably more interesting.
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Celal Kucuker Says XRP Could Move Fast
Celal Kucuker’s outlook is based on a shorter-term trigger.
His two-week XRP chart highlights the descending channel that has controlled price since XRP traded above $3.00. The latest candle has produced a substantial rebound from around the $1 area and is now challenging the channel’s upper boundary.
Kucuker is specifically watching the next two-week candle.
According to the analyst, if XRP’s August 31 two-week candle opens above the green descending resistance line, it would provide an important confirmation that XRP has escaped the corrective structure.
He believes such a development could put a new all-time high on the table before the end of the year.
Source: X/@CelalKucuker
Before that happens, however, his chart highlights several levels worth watching. XRP first needs to establish itself above roughly $1.38, while the larger upside levels shown are around $2.42 and $3.12. A move through that region would bring the previous high back into focus.
Kucuker sees approximately $4 as a potential destination if the breakout develops.
Perhaps the most notable part of his outlook is the expected speed. He suggested that XRP could move through levels such as $2.50 surprisingly quickly; potentially within a single two-week candle.
Both analysts are therefore watching essentially the same development from different perspectives. Marks sees a much larger historical structure potentially opening the road toward $15, while Kucuker is focused on the nearer-term breakout confirmation that would need to occur first.
Ripple Expands Institutional Business With Delta One Launch
The bullish technical forecasts arrive as Ripple itself continues expanding deeper into institutional finance.
On August 27, Ripple announced the launch of a Delta One business within Ripple Prime, its multi-asset institutional prime brokerage platform.
The new service allows institutional clients to execute Total Return Swaps across U.S.-listed equities, indices and digital assets. It expands Ripple Prime beyond crypto and further into the infrastructure traditionally used by hedge funds, asset managers and other large financial institutions.
One particularly notable feature is the cross-asset nature of the platform. Ripple says clients can access equities, foreign exchange, derivatives, fixed income and digital-asset services through a single counterparty while cross-margining exposures across those markets.
Ripple Prime also says its Delta One operation uses a conflict-free model focused on clearing and financing rather than operating alongside proprietary trading or market-making desks.
Introducing Ripple Prime’s Delta One business – bringing Total Return Swaps across US-listed equities, indices and digital assets to clients, tailored to their investment horizons, risk mandates and reporting requirements. Single counterparty. Cross-margined. Structurally…
— Ripple (@Ripple) August 27, 2026
The financial scale behind the expansion is also significant. According to Ripple’s announcement, Ripple Prime has more than $1 billion in regulatory net capital and recently completed an upsized $275 million private placement of senior unsecured notes, following a $200 million debt facility earlier this year.
For XRP holders, there is an important distinction. Ripple’s institutional expansion does not automatically translate into direct XRP demand, and the company did not present the Delta One launch as an XRP price catalyst.
However, it does strengthen the broader institutional footprint surrounding Ripple. The company is increasingly positioning itself at the intersection of traditional markets and digital assets rather than operating solely as a crypto-focused payments company.
For the XRP price prediction, though, the immediate story remains technical. $1.38–$1.40 is an important area to hold, a confirmed escape from the descending structure would strengthen the case for $2.42–$3.12 and eventually the previous high, while Marks’ $15 projection remains the much more ambitious long-term scenario.
XRP Price Forecast
For now, XRP’s outlook comes down to whether the recent surge can turn into a big breakout rather than another short-lived pump. XRP ran from roughly $1.00 on August 18 to above $1.50 within days before cooling back toward the $1.40 area, so some consolidation after such a big advance would not be unusual.
The first task for bulls is therefore to defend the recent breakout area and push price back through the resistance that has formed above $1.50.
If that happens, $2.42 and $3.12 are the more realistic intermediate levels highlighted by Kucuker’s chart before attention shifts toward the previous highs and the $4 region. Marks’ $15 target is a considerably more aggressive, longer-term scenario and requires the smaller wedge breakout to confirm while XRP continues respecting the much larger bullish structure. In other words, $15 should not be treated as the immediate next stop; several important technical hurdles would need to fall first.
The bearish case should not be ignored either. A failure to hold the recent breakout, particularly if XRP starts retracing deeply toward the area from which the August rally began, would weaken the comparison with Marks’ previous bullish structures.
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