XRP Price Mirrors Sideways Accumulation Trend Since 2017, Here’s What Happened Last
XRP’s recent price action in 2025 was more of a dynamic move than a simple sideways drift. After a lot of meeting in early 2025 again advancing to new heights all the time, cryptocurrency has spent most of the last months digesting those benefits through pullbacks and consolidation.
That structure was mentioned in a chart shared on social media X by Steph, who suggested that the current behavior of the XRP market is starting to resemble the long pressure phase that preceded its breakout in 2017.
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According to in steph’s analysis, XRP recently completed a nearly 393-day sideways rally, a length of time almost identical to the 395-day rally that went through between 2016 and 2017.
During that previous cycle, XRP spent months moving within a relative range, producing heavy price action. This type of extended consolidation shows a balance between buyers and sellers, where neither side is strong enough to force a decisive trend.
In 2017, that balance led to a change in another descending channel technical structure before the breakout. The current setup in 2024-2025, at least structurally, shows XRP spending an unusually long time building a base in the range. Detailed view of the chart shows some important similarities by moving to another descending channel.
Back in the 2016-2017 cycle, XRP transitioned from a sideways movement to a bearish channel that slowly pushed the price down over the course of several months. That downward trend is finally resolved by a sharp upward breakout.
The 2024-2025 chart shows XRP moving through a comparable bearish channel, with price pressure to the lower boundary ahead. showing the first signs of a rash while attention is still low.
XRP Value Comparison. Source: @Steph_iscrypto on X
What To Expect With XRP
The 2016-2017 portion of the chart above shows XRP trading for about 395 days in a wide range of sides between $0.005 and $0.01. When XRP broke out of the bearish channel at the beginning of 2017, the price rose very quickly, starting at $0.01, moving to $0.03 and $0.05 within a few days. The expansion didn’t stop there, as XRP ended up hitting the $0.40 mark later that year, cementing XRP’s first 5,000% move in its history.
The 2024-2025 chart shows XRP rallying near the $3.40 area before entering a sideways consolidation phase in mid-2025. The price action is now in a descending channel, which is the time. little by little to press around $1.70-$1.90 range.
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That channel now looks similar to where XRP was in 2017 before its breakout, adjusted for scale. A comparison of 5,000% from the current price action area it will show the value of XRP statistically up to $100.
Featured image from Unsplash, chart from TradingView
