South Korean scientist YoungHoon Kim has projected an extreme long-term price target for XRP, suggesting the token could reach $1,000 within the next ten years. In posts on X (formerly Twitter), Kim framed this forecast as contingent on a series of major macroeconomic shifts, including a significant flow of capital into cryptocurrency, a weakening US dollar, and prolonged high inflation. He explicitly noted this was not financial advice.
The mathematical implications of such a target are stark. With XRP's circulating supply at approximately 60.57 billion tokens, a price of $1,000 would imply a total market valuation of nearly $60.57 trillion. Critics have pointed out that this figure would place XRP's market value above that of assets like gold, raising questions about the forecast's realism given current on-chain utility and settlement volume.
The forecast has elicited a mixed response from the crypto community. Supporters like Matthew Brienen, COO of CryptoCharged, have suggested that price ranges from $100 to $1,000 over a decade are "highly possible," with Brienen disclosing he holds a large amount of XRP. Investor Armando Pantoja also expressed a willingness to wait up to 10 years for a major payoff, arguing that previous regulatory pressure from the SEC had suppressed XRP's price.
Conversely, skeptics, including X users Utumax and YouTuber Zach Humphries, have called for clearer methodological backing for the prediction, highlighting the enormous implied valuation. The debate underscores a split between those betting on massive upside and those demanding more rigorous, step-by-step logic.
At the time of these discussions, XRP was trading near $1.84, down almost 30% over the preceding three months. Market analyst Coach JV commented that he expects "fast and aggressive" moves when bullish momentum returns to XRP, reflecting the token's historical volatility. Ultimately, analysts caution that long-term value depends on real-world adoption, liquidity, and broad market acceptance, with regulatory clarity being a helpful but insufficient factor alone to achieve multi-trillion dollar valuations.
