Ripple’s XRP holders have had a rough month. The XRP price dropped about 20%, and market sentiment weakened as Bitcoin also pulled back. But a new comparison from The Crypto Basic is giving the community something interesting to think about.
The idea is simple: what if XRP repeated the same type of explosive rally that Zcash (ZEC) just had?
There is also fresh excitement building around XRP because the first U.S. spot XRP ETFs may launch next week. The DTCC has listed five ETFs from major issuers such as Bitwise, 21Shares, CoinShares, Franklin Templeton, and Canary. This news has helped shift attention back to XRP at a time when most altcoins are struggling.
🚨BREAKING: The first U.S. spot #XRP ETFs could launch next week.
— Coin Bureau (@coinbureau) November 10, 2025
The DTCC just listed five spot XRP ETFS from Bitwise, Franklin Templeton, 21Shares, Canary, and CoinShares under its "active and pre-launch" category. pic.twitter.com/h1HQRpaEsm
The Crypto Basic used Zcash as a model because ZEC has been on one of the wildest runs in recent crypto history. Back in September, the ZEC price was trading around $40 while the XRP price sat near $3.
From there, Zcash went on a nonstop climb. It reclaimed $100 in October, pushed up to $300, briefly fell under $100, and then shot all the way to $400 – all within the same month.
What made this even more surprising was that the Bitcoin price was falling at the same time, dropping from $126,000 down toward the $100,000 level. ZEC simply ignored the broader market and kept climbing until it touched $750 today.
This run lifted Zcash from a $600 million market cap to more than $10 billion, and it jumped from rank 90 to rank 14 in the global crypto rankings. In total, ZEC gained 1,775% in about two months, almost a 20X move during a bearish crypto environment.
This impressive performance prompted analysts to wonder what the XRP price would look like if it were to experience this type of rally.
Today, the XRP price is changing hands for approximately $2.31 after a slight rebound. If XRP were to rise 1,775%, similar to Zcash’s spike, its price would hit $43.31. This would place XRP’s market capitalization at around $2.6 trillion, larger than Bitcoin’s current $2 trillion valuation.
This is the main reason many analysts say the scenario is exciting but also extremely hard to imagine in the short term.
#XRP Price Could Reach $43.31 if It Rises 1,775% Like #Zcash.🧵🧵🧵 pic.twitter.com/Ylm7bKmunC
— TheCryptoBasic (@thecryptobasic) November 10, 2025
The thread also points out that XRP does have a history of large price jumps. For example, in late 2024, XRP moved from $0.50 to $3.34 in just two months – a 568% increase.
Still, even that big rally is far smaller than what ZEC just pulled off. The difference comes from market size. Zcash grew from a tiny cap of $600 million to $10 billion. XRP today already sits at around $183 billion, which makes rapid multi-trillion-dollar moves much harder.
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Meanwhile, analysts believe Zcash may still have more room to grow. Even after its 18X surge, ZEC is still trading 90% below its all-time high of $5,941 from 2016. Big names like Arthur Hayes have also been buying more ZEC.
Hayes even revealed that Zcash is now his fund’s second-largest liquid holding after Bitcoin, and he thinks the coin could reach $10,000 in the future.
ZEC price rally has been helped by renewed interest in privacy coins, along with new upgrades like the Zashi wallet and Project Tachyon. Zcash uses zk-SNARKs, which allow fully private transactions, and that has attracted a growing group of investors who want more anonymity than Bitcoin provides.
In the end, The Crypto Basic’s comparison isn’t a prediction that the XRP price will suddenly jump to $43. Instead, it shows how powerful a rally can be when a smaller coin like ZEC gets strong momentum.
It also highlights the size of the challenge XRP faces because of its much larger market cap. Still, with ETF speculation heating up and long-term interest returning, XRP remains one of the most-watched assets in the market.
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