Quick Read – John Squire predicted XRP hits $5 by October, which would represent a 400% gain in ten weeks, citing adoption, institutional ETF demand, and Ripple’s 75-plus global licences. – XRP ETF inflows collapsed 96% from launch to just $3.27 million in August’s first ten…
ys, even as ledger activity climbed 84%. – Even if the CLARITY Act passes and Bitcoin bottoms in September, the bullish ceiling for XRP is $1.60, which is less than a third of $5. – XRP (CRYPTO:XRP) trades at $1.00 today after dropping to $0.9889 on August 11, its lowest price in a year. However, a crypto influencer called John Squire told his 552,000 followers on August 17 that XRP will hit $5 before October ends
That would be five times the current XRP price, or a 400% gain in ten weeks, and he gave three reasons for the prediction. Why John Squire Predicts XRP Will Hit $5 by October John Squire posts as @TheCryptoSquire on X, where he predicted XRP will hit $5 before the end of October. “Save this prediction. Come back in October,” he wrote, before adding that he was putting it on the record.
He gave three reasons for the $5 target, and each one is measurable. The first is adoption, which means how much the XRP Ledger gets used for actual payments. The second is institutional interest, which covers the spot XRP ETFs that let investors buy XRP through a brokerage account, and the corporate treasuries that have bought the token since those funds launched in November 2025.