XRP Price Prediction: Which Scenarios and Which Costs to Check Before the Quarter Ends

Anyone looking for an XRP price prediction today is usually looking for a number. The more honest answer is a date: on October 1, 2026 the next release window opens from Ripple's escrow holdings, and it covers up to 1 billion XRP. At the current price that is roughly $1.55 billion of potential supply, and it meets a market that took in $52.7 million through spot ETFs over the past week. That ratio explains more about the coming weeks than any price target.

This article weighs both sides against each other, names the levels that follow from measured data, and then works through the items that genuinely make a position more expensive. Because at a price of $1.55 the incidental costs of an XRP order are not a side issue but the same order of magnitude as an entire day's move.

XRP price today: the measured reading on September 26, 2026

Retrieved on September 26, 2026 at 18:41 German time via CoinGecko market data, XRP trades at $1.55 and 1.36 euros. That puts the price 1.41 percent below the reading of 24 hours earlier. The day's range runs from $1.54 to $1.58, market capitalisation stands at $97.33 billion, and trading volume over t...