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Choose Your Pain, XRP Investors: Analyst Maps Out 2 Paths for Ripple’s Price

The XRP price has moved a lot recently. XRP is the cross‑border token that many people watch in the cryptocurrency world. It rose to a high of $2.40 on January 6. Then it dropped quickly. By last Friday it had fallen to a little over $1.10 during a big market sell‑off. After losing more than half its value in a short time, it tried to bounce back a bit. But the price stayed weak and remained under $1.40. This means it is still about 25% lower for the year so far.

In the wider crypto market, many people think a bear market has begun. A bear market means prices are falling and staying lower for a long time. It’s not just XRP. Bitcoin (the first and most famous cryptocurrency) and many other large coins have also dropped 50% or more from their highs earlier in 2025. Because of this, analysts are thinking hard about where the bottom price could be and how much pain investors might have to endure before prices start to move higher again.

One well‑known XRP supporter, ERGAG CRYPTO, drew two possible future paths for Ripple’s cross‑border token. He shared two different charts showing where XRP could go if things unfold in different ways. In the first chart, the bottom is shown at $0.60. If that happens, it would erase all gains XRP had made since late 2024 after a presidential election victory in the United States. It would bring the price back to its starting point at that time. The chart suggests a deeper downturn, more fear, and investors who hold on too long and then sell out as losses mount. On the upside, the chart predicts a strong rally once the market turns around and buyers step in. The analyst even imagines a surge all the way to a top near $11.

To make the idea clear, ERGAG CRYPTO described Chart 1 with bold words: bottom at $0.60, top at $11, a deeper drawdown, fear, and big players who sell in a panic. A message from the analyst on social media put it this way: Markets don’t reward comfort. They reward conviction under pressure. Choose your pain or pain will choose you. The post included a chart image and the caption, pic.twitter.com/7KxtTwcd2A, which was shared by EGRAG CRYPTO on February 13, 2026.

ERGAG CRYPTO also offered a second, more modest path. This chart shows lower price volatility in both directions. In Chart 2 the bottom would be around $0.90, and the top could reach about $8.50. This scenario would give investors less pain and less dramatic moves up or down. But its upside—the chance to rise to very high prices—would be smaller too.

As of the time this was written, both bottom ideas (around $0.60 and around $0.90) seemed plausible. The two tops ($11 and ~$8.50) looked more unlikely because XRP would have to soar far from its 2025 high of $3.65 to reach double‑digit prices. In other words, reaching $11 would require a big and rapid rally. On the other hand, slipping to $0.90 or even $0.60 seems reasonable given how the market is behaving right now.

Still, price movements can change very quickly. XRP has shown in the past that it can make remarkable runs. After the United States elections, XRP rose from about $0.60 to about $3.40 in a few months. That is a gain of roughly 466%. This history shows that big moves are possible, even after long periods of decline.

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