XRP Outperforms Ethereum for 6 Months

Since the beginning of the Ripple vs SEC lawsuits began, XRP's price has dropped from its highest point of $3.39 to as low as $0.10.

Ripple’s XRP, once viewed as a slow mover in the fast-paced crypto realm, is making swift progress. In the last six months, XRP has outperformed the world’s largest altcoin, Ethereum, in terms of price growth. This feat has sparked widespread interest, leading many to ponder what secrets lie behind XRP’s success and how long it will take for the token to surpass Ethereum in market cap.

Let’s delve into the subject at hand.

XRP Outperforms Ethereum for 6 Months

Since the beginning of the Ripple vs. SEC lawsuits, which had a significant impact on the crypto market, saw XRP’s price plummet from its highest point of $3.39 to as low as $0.10. However, despite such a setback, the token managed to bounce back, and after a judge ruled in favor of Ripple in the lawsuit against the SEC, which nearly secured a win for the crypto industry, XRP's price managed to reach $3 again.

After a long period of underperforming, one of the times viewed as one of the setbacks for the altcoin, one token is outperforming another one of its biggest rivals.

For the last six months, XRP has outperformed Ethereum in price growth.

The price surge began in November 2024, when XRP saw a jump of 160%. Since then, XRP has kept rising with gains of 18.5% in December, 45.3% in January, 4.3% in February, 19.6% in March, and 14.3% in April.

On the other hand, Ethereum had a good year, too, but not as good as XRP. The second-largest crypto saw a surge in November with a whopping 140% price increase. Then, it slowed down with December showing 24% gains.

In January, ETH had a setback with a 10% price decrease. It bounced back in February with 18% gains and saw a slowdown in March with 12.8% gains.

The last few months saw smaller surges with 4.3% gains in April and 7.4% gains in May.

At the same time, the second-largest crypto had a setback in May with the price dropping by 10.8%.

This makes a total of 994% price gains for XRP in the last six months compared to 648% for Ethereum.

At the same time, the world’s largest crypto Bitcoin had a smaller performance with a 228% price gain in the last six months.

At the beginning of November 2024, XRP was trading at $0.1 affecting it with a $9B market cap compared to Ethereum’s $164B.

Now, in May 2025, XRP is trading at $2.10 and affecting it with a $122.14B market cap compared to Ethereum’s $198.94B.

At the same time, Bitcoin is trading at a price of $70,638 affecting it with a $1.33tr market cap.

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