XRP could still reach $28 this cycle under a “non-base-case” scenario driven 
by an altcoin-heavy rotation, according to CryptoInsightUK analyst Will 
Taylor, who argued that XRP’s multi-year technical compression leaves room for 
an outsized move if market structure and sentiment align. In his Dec. 27 
“Weekly Insight” newsletter, Taylor framed the call inside a broader thesis: 
that capital chasing breakouts in traditional markets could eventually rotate 
into crypto, amplifying returns given crypto’s smaller aggregate market cap. 
Within that setup, XRP is his “core position,” and the token he sees as a 
primary beneficiary if altcoins capture a larger share of the cycle’s upside. 
Can XRP Still Reach $28 This Cycle? Taylor’s XRP outlook is tied to his 
expectation that total crypto market cap can reach roughly $10 trillion this 
cycle, a level he characterized as consistent with prior cycle behavior. The 
more important variable, in his view, is where Bitcoin dominance lands if that 
scenario plays out. Related Reading: XRP Exchange Inflows Spike To End 2025: 
Will Price Decline Deepen? He wrote that dominance could fall into the “35.3 
percent and 31.5 percent range,” which would imply Bitcoin at roughly a $3 
trillion to $4 trillion market cap in that environment and “leave the door 
open for around six trillion dollars to flow into altcoins.” That’s the 
backdrop for his XRP targets: not a claim about XRP alone, but a wager on the 
size of the altcoin pie if the market turns risk-on. Taylor also pointed to a 
prior discussion with trader Credible Crypto as an example of how high-cycle 
targets can emerge when liquidity, positioning, and sentiment converge. “My 
pinned post on X is a conversation with Credible Crypto where he talks about 
how, for example, XRP could go to $26 if the stars align for a cycle like 
this,” Taylor wrote. “And right now, it genuinely feels like those stars are 
starting to align.” Taylor disclosed that XRP is the overwhelming majority of 
his portfolio, a disclosure he flagged as a potential bias. “As you guys know, 
I am around 90 percent XRP in my portfolio, so I definitely have some bias 
here,” he wrote, before laying out a profit-taking framework centered on a 
mid-cycle target zone. “I would not be too surprised to see XRP reach a 
minimum of eight to thirteen dollars,” Taylor wrote. “I have discussed many 
times that I would be taking a lot of profit in that range, with an outside 
maximum target of up to around twenty eight dollars.” Related Reading: XRP 
Supply Shock Incoming? Expert Reveals The Truth He tied the higher-end target 
to a technical read of XRP’s long consolidation and the possibility that an 
altcoin-led cycle could be larger than many investors expect. Taylor described 
the $28 level as derived from the “initial breakout from the 2017 to 2018 
cycle,” while emphasizing he had deliberately “diminished expectations” versus 
modeling a more aggressive, multi-leg extension. Even so, his risk management 
plan is explicit about reducing exposure in the $8 to $13 band. “As I have 
said before, I plan to heavily de leverage between eight and thirteen dollars 
if we are offered that opportunity,” he wrote. “I will not be selling all of 
my bags, though, because I do think there is an outside chance that we push 
higher, potentially toward the twenty eight dollar area.” The Argument For XRP 
Taylor’s core claim is that XRP’s structure is different from many large-cap 
alts because it has, in his view, spent longer in “compression” and is now 
emerging from it. He argued XRP “has experienced longer compression than most 
altcoins, has broken out of an eight year trend, and has held previous seven 
year resistance as support.” He also suggested that a favorable US policy 
narrative could act as an accelerant in a euphoric phase, pointing to “the 
rhetoric around US companies,” the “US Clarity Act,” and Ripple “remaining 
based in the US” as factors that could make a higher-end outcome less 
implausible in a risk-on environment. Still, Taylor repeatedly stressed that 
the $28 figure is not his central expectation. “That being said, and I want to 
be very clear on this, this is not my primary target,” he wrote. “My primary 
target is and has been between eight and twelve dollars, potentially 
stretching to fifteen or sixteen dollars this cycle. The move toward twenty 
eight dollars is an outside scenario, not a base case.” At press time, XRP 
traded at $1.86. Featured image created with DALL.E, chart from 
TradingView.com

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