The Year in XRP 2025: New Highs After 7 Years as Ripple's SEC Case Finally Ends

In brief Ripple Labs ended a yearslong court battle with the SEC in 2025, giving way to new growth for the firm. That helped fuel the Ripple-linked XRP's surge to a new all-time high of $3.65. The firm's stablecoin also blossomed to more than a $1 billion market cap, and it made four major acquisitions, helping its valuation grow to $40 billion. Crypto’s biggest wins are often tightly connected to the rise in asset prices, but Ripple’s 2025 successes extend far beyond the price of XRP -the Ripple-linked asset that sits inside the top five crypto assets by market capitalization. Instead, most of the biggest headlines attached to the financial services organization were irrelevant to trading screens, most notably the conclusion to its years-long battle with the SEC, major acquisitions to propel its future growth, and the launch of a billion-dollar stablecoin product-RLUSD. Below we’ll look back at the biggest highlights for XRP and Ripple in 2025. Ripple, SEC saga comes to an end More than four years after it began, the legal dispute between Ripple Labs Inc. and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) officially came to a close in August . The landmark case, which investigated whether or not sales of XRP violated securities laws, extended back to December 2020. In 2023, a partial ruling favored Ripple Labs, but appeals and counter-appeals extended the saga into 2025. However, with the election of President Donald Trump and a crypto-friendlier regulatory administration , the pair opted to find a jointly negotiated resolution in early 2025 . That negotiated resolution was later denied by a U.S. district judge , and then by the courts, so eventually the pair agreed to drop their respective appeals-ending the affair for good and cementing the 2023 ruling in Ripple’s favor as a precedent for future crypto classifications. XRP marks a new all-time high Prior to 2025, XRP had last traded above $3.00 in 2018. Seven years later, and around a month before the conclusion to Ripple Labs’ yearslong legal battle with the SEC, the Ripple-linked XRP made a new all-time high of $3.65 , according to data from CoinGecko, surging beyond its previous high mark of $3.40 from 2018. That made XRP the third-largest crypto asset by market capitalization at the time, trailing just Bitcoin and Ethereum. With regulatory scrutiny waning, analysts at the time told Decrypt that investors “ believed in Ripple's vision for a regulatory-compliant blockchain for institutions. ” Though its rapid rise placed the token in a range it had not seen since 2018, investment firms like Standard Chartered maintained even higher end-of-year price targets for XRP during the summer-expecting a move to $5.50 by the end of year. That mark seems unlikely now though, despite the acceleration of the tokenization trend that Standard Chartered highlighted as a potential catalyst for the price of XRP. XRP, now the fourth-largest asset by market capitalization, was changing hands at $1.90 as of December 15, around 48% off its July all-time high. XRP joins...

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