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Story: XRP Could Hit $10,000 But Most Traders Won’t See It Coming, Analyst Says

By Steven Anderson

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Fear and Short-Term Thinking Are Killing the Trade. BarriC's argument is basically this: fear, impatience, and a fixation on daily price swings are…

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What XRP Was Actually Built to Do. Per BarriC, XRP isn't really a retail sentiment play.

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The Gap Between Utility and Market Price. What's interesting about BarriC's framing is that it puts utility ahead of market sentiment…

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A crypto analyst who goes by BarriC made a pretty bold call on May 31 — and it's the kind of thing that's easy to dismiss until it isn't.

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And it's hard to argue the environment isn't noisy. Crypto markets have spent the better part of the past year whipsawing between optimism and panic, with retail traders chasing…

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BarriC's read is that XRP is one of those narratives getting buried.

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Per BarriC, XRP isn't really a retail sentiment play. It was created to handle liquidity, settlement, and cross-border value transfer at scale.

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He's not talking about incremental gains either. BarriC put a price range of $10,000 to $50,000 on XRP — should it become genuinely integral to global financial infrastructure.

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He called that sub-$2 price "a trap." His point is that the current valuation is deceptive — that it makes XRP look like just another mid-range crypto asset when the actual…

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More context: XRP Ledger Hits 2.48M Daily Transactions as Real-World Asset Tokenization Jumps 124%

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The XRP community is split on all of this. Some holders have been waiting years for the kind of institutional adoption BarriC is describing, and patience is running thin.

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That's probably the core of his warning. Early recognition of emerging trends, he said, could yield significant rewards. Miss the setup, miss the move.

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It's worth noting that BarriC is an analyst operating under a pseudonym — the source doesn't give a full name, institutional affiliation, or track record.

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Read also: Flare Co-Founder Says XRP Holders Can Access DeFi and Smart Contracts

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Whether that community is right or engaging in collective wishful thinking is genuinely unclear. The technology exists. The use case is real.

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