XRP Price Prediction: 9% Drop in 12 Hours, Can XRP Survive CLARITY Act Setback?

XRP is changing hands at $1.30, after a brutal overnight leg that saw the token shed more than 9% in less than 12 hours. XRP is volatile. But now, will $1.30 holds as anything more than a bounce point before the next leg down? Here’s our full XRP price prediction.

A failed procedural vote on the CLARITY Act last night has reignited the regulatory ambiguity XRP has spent years trying to shed. Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse called the setback “stings’ in a same-day post on X, a rare public admission of frustration from a CEO usually disciplined about messaging.

1/ This one stings. Our team gave everything we had to get the Clarity Act across the finish line. So did most of the industry. This was an opportunity bigger than Ripple or one company – we did this for the industry, for consumers and to cement the US’s position as the crypto…

Bitcoin dipped briefly below $75,000 before recovering, while Ethereum, BNB, and Solana slid 3-5%, confirming this was a market-wide risk-off event, not an XRP-specific breakdown.

Still, XRP’s decline outpaced the majors by a wide margin. That elasticity is the story. Regulatory clarity was priced in; its absence is now being priced out.

XRP trades at $1.30, down from an intraday low near $1.27 after the CLARITY Act news broke. Liquidity and open interest data suggest the selloff, while sharp, hasn’t triggered the kind of cascading liquidations that mark a true breakdown. The immediate technical battle is at the $1.30 level here, which flips from support to resistance if buyers can’t reclaim it convincingly.

Three scenarios frame the next move, all pinned to the Fed’s rate decision. A 25 basis point hike likely sends XRP toward the $1.00 psychological floor, with $1.21 and $1.10 as intermediate stops. An unchanged rate probably supports a reclaim of $1.30, with $1.36 and $1.45 as next resistance.

How about the best case? A surprise cut, although low probability, could open a path toward $1.60, then $1.68, potentially $1.86. Triangle-pattern analysis puts $2.19 on the table if resistance clears, though that scenario currently sits well outside base-case odds.

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