{"id":124518,"date":"2026-01-03T20:30:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T20:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=124518"},"modified":"2026-01-03T20:30:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T20:30:05","slug":"xrp-price-mirrors-2017-sideways-accumulation-trend-heres-what-happened-last-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=124518","title":{"rendered":"XRP Price Mirrors 2017 Sideways Accumulation Trend \u2013 Here\u2019s What Happened Last Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

XRP\u2019s recent price action in 2025 was more of a dynamic movement than a simple sideways drift. After rallying strongly earlier in 2025 and pushing to new all-time highs,<\/a> the cryptocurrency has spent much of the recent months digesting those gains<\/a> through pullbacks and consolidations.<\/p>\n

That structure was referenced in a chart shared on the social media platform X by Steph, which proposed that XRP\u2019s current market behavior is beginning to resemble the long compression phase that preceded its breakout in 2017.<\/p>\n

XRP Completes Nearly 400 Days Of Sideways Accumulation<\/h2>\n

According to Steph\u2019s analysis,<\/a> XRP has just completed roughly 393 days of sideways accumulation, a duration that almost perfectly matches the 395-day consolidation phase it went through between 2016 and 2017.<\/p>\n

During that earlier cycle, XRP spent months moving within a relative range, producing a choppy price action. This kind of extended consolidation reflects a balance between buyers and sellers, where neither side is strong enough to force a decisive trend.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In 2017, that balance led to a transition into another technical formation of a descending channel before breaking out. The current setup in 2024-2025, at least structurally, shows XRP once again spending an unusually long time building a base in a range. A more detailed look at the chart shows another important similarity<\/a> with the transition into another descending channel.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Back in the 2016-2017 cycle, XRP transitioned from sideways movement into a descending channel that gradually pushed the price lower over several months. That downward-sloping structure ultimately resolved with a sharp breakout to the upside.<\/p>\n

The 2024-2025 chart shows XRP moving through a comparable descending channel, with price compressing toward the lower boundary before showing early signs of a breakout<\/a> while attention is still low.<\/p>\n\n

XRP Price Comparison. Source: @Steph_iscrypto on X<\/a><\/p>\n

What To Expect For XRP<\/h2>\n

The 2016-2017 chart segment above shows XRP trading for roughly 395 days in a broad sideways range between about $0.005 and $0.01. Once XRP broke out of the descending channel in early 2017, price moved up very fast, first reclaiming $0.01, then surging past $0.03 and $0.05 within a few days. The expansion did not stop there, as XRP eventually rallied into the $0.40 region later that year, cementing XRP\u2019s first 5,000% move in its history.<\/p>\n

The 2024-2025 chart shows XRP peaking near the $3.40 zone before entering a sideways consolidation phase throughout 2025. Price action is now in the descending channel, which is gradually compressing around<\/a> the $1.70-$1.90 area.<\/p>\n

That channel now looks similar to the location where XRP was in 2017 before its breakout, adjusted for scale. A comparable 5,000% move from the current zone of price action would mathematically project the XRP price<\/a> to about $100.<\/p>\n

Featured image from Unsplash, chart from TradingView<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

XRP\u2019s recent price action in 2025 was more of a dynamic movement than a simple sideways drift. After rallying strongly earlier in 2025 and pushing to new all-time highs, the cryptocurrency has spent much of the recent months digesting those gains through pullbacks and consolidations. That structure was referenced in a chart shared on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":124519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-discovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124518"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/124519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}