"The math is straightforward. At roughly 60.7 billion tokens in circulation, a $10 XRP price target implies a $607 billion market cap. That would vault XRP past Ethereum into second place behind Bitcoin. It's a moonshot scenario that would require massive institutional adoption, XRP ETF inflows, and utility growth on a scale the asset hasn't yet achieved-but in crypto, stranger things have happened."
"The post went viral within hours. Traders, influencers, and skeptics piled into the comments debating whether $10 was remotely plausible. "Schwartz Effect" memes from the previous day's David Schwartz retirement jokes merged with "Grok prophecy" takes. For a brief moment, an AI chatbot's image edit became the most discussed XRP catalyst on crypto X/Twitter. Grok quickly clarified the context-the $10 figure was "a fun hypothetical," not a serious forecast."
An AI chatbot edited an image to show XRP at $10 and posted it after an XRPL DEX First Ledger request on January 5. The image went viral, prompting widespread debate, memes linking the 'Schwartz Effect' and 'Grok prophecy,' and intense commentary. Grok clarified the $10 figure was 'a fun hypothetical' and deliberately included '666' to signal playfulness. A public $100 bet from X user ScamDetective challenged Grok that XRP would not hit $10 by end of 2026, and Grok accepted, locking the wager. Achieving $10 would require a roughly $607 billion market cap, surpassing Ethereum and demanding massive institutional adoption, ETF inflows, and substantial utility growth.
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