Crypto commentator Austin Hilton addressed his audience in a recent video, pushing back against rising frustration in the XRP community. His post, titled “XRP is over! I’m done…” set an alarm
Crypto commentator Austin Hilton addressed his audience in a recent video, pushing back against rising frustration in the XRP community. His post, titled “XRP is over! I’m done…” set an alarming tone, but the content told a different story.
XRP traded at $1.29 when he made the video. Over the past month, the token was down 16%. Over the past year, it was down 50%.
Hilton acknowledged those numbers without softening them. Notably, a recent Coindesk report revealed that XRP has significantly underperformed, failing to hold its 2018 high like other major assets.
However, Hilton noted that Bitcoin was down 28% over the same one-year period. He stressed that the selloff is not XRP-specific. Nearly every established token has declined through this prolonged bearish cycle.
"XRP is over! I'm done…" pic.twitter.com/g9zG0QpUMH
— Austin Hilton (@austinahilton) October 29, 2026
Hilton said he asks himself one question during moments of doubt. He focuses on the total crypto market cap, which currently sits at $2.69 trillion. His question is whether that market cap will ever go higher. His answer is yes, and he builds his continued conviction around that.
He cited two drivers for future growth. The first is technology adoption, including blockchain use cases, real-world asset tokenization, and the XRP ledger.
The second is institutional and retail capital that has not yet entered the market. In his view, the mass retail audience has not arrived yet. When it does, liquidity will drive prices across the entire crypto market higher, including XRP.
Hilton said he expects XRP to reach $5 and $10, and he called a 10x to 40x move from current levels possible as the cycle develops. He also said he bought XRP at $1 and expects it to eventually trade at $50 to $100. He acknowledged he cannot predict the timing.
He also told viewers the bottom may not be in. He said XRP could fall further before recovering, pointing to macroeconomic pressures including Federal Reserve policy, the U.S.-Iran conflict, oil prices, and inflation.
Hilton has been producing crypto content for six years. He said he views the current moment as one of the largest financial opportunities of his lifetime. Sitting out, in his view, means missing the eventual adoption cycle entirely.
He separated the two sides of XRP, the technology side and the investment side. He said the investment side is genuinely frustrating right now. He did not dispute that. His position is that the technology side remains intact, and the investment side will eventually reflect that.
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