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Right up to a 24-hour price bounce following Trump’s feint on tariffs, crypto markets suffered with stocks through the week. But for the 7-day window ending Apr. 10, XRP was the least worst off for the wear, down by 2.05% for the week, with BTC down 2.16%, ETH down 13.34%, and BNB down 2.23%. Big Bank’s Killer XRP Price Forecast Meanwhile, UK mega bank Standard Chartered said in a Q2 note to investors that XRP prices are about to rally to as high as 275% from April by the end of the year. “We think XRP price gains can keep pace with Bitcoin in real terms,” wrote StanChart’s digital assets researcher Geoff Kendrick. He added that Ripple’s global payments token is “uniquely positioned at the heart of one of the fastest-growing uses for digital assets—facilitation of cross-border and cross-currency payments.” Kendricks targeted $5.50 for XRP’s price by year’s end. Moreover, he mentioned that he could see the token trading for $12.50 before Trump leaves office in 2029. That would represent a gain of 525% over the XRP price of $2.00 on Apr. 10 and an average annualized ROI of 131%. Here are five metas driving XRP’s price higher on token exchanges in Q2 2025. 1. USA Today: XRP ‘Most Resistant’ to Tariffs Cryptocurrencies and stocks were highly sensitive to Trump’s tariffs in his first term and have proven so again this year. So a recent report in the USA Today is very bullish for XRP. The newspaper’s investing section reported on Apr. 4, “Of the three biggest cryptocurrencies, XRP has been the most resistant to the impact of tariffs. Since Feb. 1, it is actually up a modest 2%.” Furthermore, the paper added that bullish investors think “XRP’s role in powering cross-border payments using the XRP blockchain is tariff-proof.” In…

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