On June 26, 2025, XRP is trading at $2.19. This price reflects the cryptocurrency's ongoing presence in the market. The intraday high reached $2.23, while the low was $2.18.
Ripple's origins date back to 2004 with Ryan Fugger's RipplePay project, which aimed to enable secure and decentralized financial transactions. Jed McCaleb joined in 2011, contributing to the development of the XRP Ledger.
The company rebranded several times, eventually becoming Ripple in 2015. In 2018, internal emails revealed a strategy to portray Bitcoin as controlled by China to differentiate XRP.