XRP’s Market Revolution: How Ripple’s Supremacy Made Bitcoin Sweat in Q1 2025

  • XRP, the proletarian underdog, humbled BTC by a triumphant 10% in Q1 2025 🍞
  • Ripple gripped 75% of XRP’s 55 billion token circulation—because modesty is overrated 😏

In the battered spring of 2025, amid the shifting rubble of finance, XRP swaggered forth like a shoeless worker having just invented boots. Its rise was nursed by the sweet relief of the SEC finally giving up on chasing Ripple—imagine the regulatory watchdog getting lost in a bureaucratic alley, tail between legs.

The numbers? Oh, the numbers! Even the iron-hearted accountants at Ripple were chuckling: XRP sprinted past Bitcoin [BTC] and Ethereum [ETH], fanned by the hot breath of ETF-driven frenzy and the sort of demand that makes capitalists weep with joy (or fear).

“XRP investment products wiped the floor with their Bitcoin and Ethereum siblings, raking in $37.7M in inflows and reaching a year-to-date bounty of $214M—that’s just $1M shy of Ethereum’s global warchest. So close, Vitalik could smell the stablecoin breath.”

April? XRP-based investments couldn’t stop hoarding inflows—money flooding in like vodka at a miner’s wake. 🍻

XRP Kicks BTC’s Shiny Butt (But Mind Your Step)

Picture this: For half a year, XRP’s daily trading volume loitered around $3.2 billion, like a surly crowd at the gates of the stock exchange, waiting for scraps.

But here’s the bread and butter: with the XRP/BTC ratio, XRP outfoxed BTC by 10%. This metric is like a scoreboard for digital fistfights.

“In Q1, the XRP/BTC ratio jumped another 10%. XRP bustled past the ‘major currency’ of crypto-ville with peasant pride and a wink.”

Between November 2024 and early 2025, XRP walloped BTC by a seismic +350%. That’s not a typo—blame the decimal point on envy. Yet, lately, BTC found its backbone, muscling back despite XRP’s 10% Q1 lead.

April came and XRP stumbled–down 8% against Bitcoin; by May’s first, another 4% had slipped from its grasp. What did we expect? Life’s not a fairy tale, especially not for an altcoin. 😇

Network activity on XRP Ledger sagged over 30%—a reflection in a cracked mirror of the broader market’s size reduction, Q1-style. It’s always darkest before the miner yells, “Buy!”

But let’s talk czars: As of March 31, 2025, Ripple was clutching 41.69 billion XRP—an imperial 75.8% of all circulating tokens. For the next 42 months, they promise to update their holdings, a ritual more regular than paying rent on a St. Petersburg hovel.

As for XRP’s daily chart? The token teetered at $2, balancing on the 200DMA (the Daily Moving Average, comrades). If support cracks, well—expect a tumble worthy of a Russian novel, four generations of sorrow in a single red candle. 📉

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2025-05-07 10:05