PROOF: XRP outperforms ‘safe havens’ since onset of Iran war
XRP has demonstrated its relative strength during this week’s military conflicts.
Believe it or not, XRP has outperformed trillion-dollar safe havens since the onset of the Iran war. That is not a typo.
Although relatively obscure, and therefore surprising most people with its show of relative strength, if you have studied the history of Ripple and the blockchain it has supported since 2012, you should be wholly unsurprised.
Market Context
Since Donald Trump authorized Operation Epic Fury at 1:15am New York time on Saturday, XRP has surged 7.4% from $1.35 to $1.45 by 2pm this afternoon.
By the time markets had adjusted to the initial panic, i.e. three hours after attacks began, XRP has rallied 13% since.
That XRP rally outperforms even crude oil, the world’s premier asset and focal point of the war with an obviously bullish wartime supply reduction. Oil gained a less impressive 11.2% from $67.29 to $74.78 per barrel over that time period.
Over either time period, gold has actually dropped approximately 3% despite an initial safe-haven spike, and silver has shed about 10% of its market capitalization.
The S&P 500 is flat, offering yet another benchmark that XRP easily beat since war began.
XRP even outperformed Nvidia, the AI giant that has gained certainty from a newly-signed OpenAI contract with the Pentagon and a de facto upgrade to a US company of national strategic importance.
Despite the size and importance of all of these safe havens, it has been better to own XRP.
News
Ripple launches end-to-end stablecoin platform (Businesswire)
Donald Trump backs crypto and reiterates Clarity Act endorsement in fight against banks (TruthSocial)
Donald Trump quote-posts a Brian Armstrong tweet (TruthSocial)
Eric Trump reiterates support for Coinbase arguments in Clarity Act (X)
ECB warns stablecoins threaten bank deposits (Ecb.europa.eu)
CFTC prediction market rule draft to White House (Reuters)
FATF flags stablecoin growth rising illicit finance risk (FATF-gafi.org)
CFTC moving towards approving “true perpetual futures” (CoinTelegraph)
Indiana approves crypto in retirement plans (CoinTelegraph)
Hyperscale Data $GPUS BTC balance 610 BTC | $41.5M cash / restricted cash (PRNewswire)
American Bitcoin $AMTC adding 3.05 EH/s in new equipment (PRNewswire)
Galaxy $GLXY to delist from TSX (PRNewswire)
Visa $VA expanding Bridge’s stablecoin-card program (Visa)
Mastercard $MA to offer SoFiUSD for settlement (Businesswire)
BitGo launches Crypto-as-a-Service in Europe (Businesswire)
Wirex enables stablecoin payments for AI agents (PRNewsWire)
Coinshares launches BNB ETP in Europe (GlobeNewswire)
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XRP Premium Analysis
Right now, 99% of the world does not hold any XRP. In reality, far less than 1% of the global population currently holds XRP.
Even if just 1% of the world did hold XRP, the price would be substantially higher than it is right now.
I am talking about triple digits per XRP, hundreds of dollars per coin, with just 1% of the entire globe actively holding it.
I am going to explain why that is, and how much XRP you might need today if XRP ownership grew to just 1% of the global population…