XRP Elbows Tether Aside in a Market Cap Soap Opera — You Won’t Believe Who’s in Third Place!

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It seems in the wild, untamed savanna of cryptocurrencies, XRP has done its best “look at me, I’m relevant again!” impression and managed to slither its way back into the cozy upper echelons of the crypto kingdom — specifically, the top 3, if you must know. According to the omniscient seers at CoinGecko, XRP has bounced by over 9% in the past 24 hours. (Nine percent! In the real world, that’s like your house suddenly being upgraded to a small castle, only without the inconvenience of a moat.)

With all this upward enthusiasm, XRP has ballooned to a market cap of nearly $151 billion. That puts it above Sony, Citigroup, Airbus, and Shopify — so next time you’re shopping online, just remember the cryptocurrency you might ignore is now theoretically worth more than every industrialist’s favorite online mall.

But the real tale of intrigue? XRP has bumped Tether (USDT) out of the way to rejoin the podium — and you can imagine Tether clutching its pearls, muttering about manners and market dynamics.

Not to be outdone, Tether recently became the first stablecoin to cross the $150 billion threshold. 🎉 One can only imagine the cake they had in the break room. They also dusted off the archives to remind us they invented stablecoins back in 2014, a heady time when people still thought Dogecoin was a joke. (Oh, the innocence.) Meanwhile, Ripple — never one to ignore a crowded party — showed up last year, inevitably wearing a slightly too-loud shirt.

Of course, XRP vs. USDT is like watching the world’s slowest tennis match: they keep swapping places on the leaderboard, and nobody is ever quite sure who’s supposed to be serving. Last year, XRP outpaced the pack thanks to Ripple’s courtroom acrobatics and some good old-fashioned regulatory confusion in the US, proving once again that crypto thrives on chaos.

In terms of dramatic comebacks, XRP still dreams of leapfrogging Ethereum (ETH) like it did one glorious day in 2018. Spoiler: it hasn’t happened yet, but if the market keeps diluting like a toddler with a glass of grape juice, you never know.

Meanwhile, in another episode of “now you see it, now you don’t,” Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse announced the company would stop publishing its quarterly XRP reports. But don’t worry — they promise to keep the official website updated. So, if you’re desperate to know how many coins they have stuffed under the company mattress, you should still be able to check. Probably.

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2025-05-12 22:10