XRP: A “zombie coin” worth tens of billions of dollars?

ChrisLarsen 2025-11-3 23:26 45735人围观 XRP

Even though Evernorth will recently bring 1 billion U.S. dollars of XRP to the Nasdaq through a SPAC merger, it still feels like XRP is being gradually eliminated by the times, the technology is no longer leading, and it has even missed an entire bull ma

XRP is like a zombie with a market capitalization of tens of billions of dollars.

Even though Evernorth will recently bring 1 billion U.S. dollars of XRP to the Nasdaq through a SPAC merger, it still feels like XRP is being gradually eliminated by the times, the technology is no longer leading, and it has even missed an entire bull market.

Today, we will reveal the truth about XRP and talk about the fatal risks behind it.

🧟‍♂️ Ten Billion Dollar Zombies

XRP was once regarded as a “revolutionary in cross-border payments.”

It was designed to make global money transfers faster and cheaper.

But the reality is cruel:

💰 Huge circulation - 100 billion XRP pre-mined, mainly controlled by Ripple Labs；
🏢 Highly centralized – it’s more like a company’s coin than a true decentralized asset；
🕳️ The cross-border payment story is broken—stablecoins and central bank digital currencies (CBDC) are cannibalizing the market；
⚙️ Technology is no longer leading - new public chains, Layer2, TON, etc. have all been surpassed.

XRP still has a huge market capitalization today, but its internal momentum is fading.

It is more like a "billion zombie" that is still walking around - strong on the surface, but has long lost its soul.

🔮The truth about the “$589 prophecy”

In the XRP community, there is a legendary belief:

“XRP will rise to $589, and one coin will change the world. ”

This prophecy has been adapted into videos and memes. Some people say it is the "divine prophecy" of "The Simpsons", but the reality is not optimistic:

Some analysts pointed out that $589 means an increase of more than 100,000 times, which is impossible to achieve from economic logic.；
Most of these "prophecies" are fabricated or pranked by the community and have no official basis.；
Even if Ripple wins the regulatory lawsuit, it does not mean that the valuation will skyrocket a hundred times.

$589, is more of a belief than a prediction.

It represents the wealth fantasy of investors, but it also reflects the most extreme collective enthusiasm in the crypto world.

🏦 Fatal risk one: Being hunted by stablecoins and CBDC

XRP's core value proposition is "fast, cheap, cross-border payments."

But now, stablecoins such as USDT and USDC, as well as CBDC (central bank digital currency) launched by central banks of various countries, are fully encroaching on this market.

Stablecoins have become the payment tool of choice for financial institutions；
CBDC has compliance and policy support, and its penetration rate far exceeds that of crypto tokens；
Ripple’s vision of a “global payment bridge” is being shattered by reality.

When the digitization of sovereign currencies becomes a trend, XRP’s presence will be severely weakened. How much value is left in the bridge?

⚡ Fatal Risk 2: Fast and cheap are no longer advantages

In the early days of blockchain, “fast” and “low fees” were indeed selling points.

But now, this has almost become the industry standard.

Solana, Layer2, TON, and even the BTC Lightning Network can all achieve millisecond transfers；
After the Ethereum expansion plan and the popularization of Rollup technology, the speed gap narrowed rapidly；
XRP lacks smart contracts and DeFi ecological support, and lacks innovation.

When advantages become routine, differentiation disappears.

The market will not reward "okay" technology, but only innovators who "redefine the rules."

🕰️ Fatal risk three: missing the entire bull market

Most damningly, XRP has missed almost the entire crypto bull cycle.

Bitcoin exceeded $110,000 and Ethereum hit a new all-time high, but XRP has been hovering in the range of several dollars for a long time.

As of October 2025, the XRP price is approximately $2.68.

To rise to $589 would mean an increase of more than 200 times - which would almost require a miracle of market reshuffling.

Rather than saying that it is underestimated, it is better to say that it has been forgotten by the times.

🎯 Summary: A game with extremely poor odds

Combining the above three major risks——

💀 Outdated stories and fierce competition；
🧩 Lagging technology and limited adoption；
💸 The market capitalization is huge and the room for upside is limited.

XRP is not worthless, but if you expect it to become the "next 100x coin", it is undoubtedly a gamble with extremely poor odds.

In the investment world, the most dangerous thing is not risk, but fantasy.

So, before you fantasize about $589, ask yourself:

Do I really believe that XRP will be in the next 5–10 years?
Defeat stablecoins, surpass CBDC, and rise again?

If the answer is no, then it may not be the 100x coin, but the tens of billions of zombies that are still wandering in the market.
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