Bird Says XRP Could Reach $4 After $1.45 Breakout — Xrp News
Xrp news: XRP cleared $1.45 on May 10 after four failed attempts at that level, and trading volume jumped 222% from the prior session. The token was trading around $1.47 after holding above the breakout point.
Bird’s May 9 call
Bird, an XRPL developer and technical analyst, posted on X on May 9 that XRP was about to do what TON and ONDO had done after similar compression phases. He wrote, “Both broke out hard” and “XRP is next.”
Bird said XRP could rally to $2 to $4. He said $2 was reachable from the chart pattern XRP broke out of, while $4 would require a major catalyst such as the CLARITY Act driving a move comparable to the breakouts TON and ONDO posted in 2024 and 2026.
XRP’s February triangle
XRP had been compressing inside a symmetrical triangle since early February. It hit $1.60 in early February and retraced, then spiked back to $1.60 in March after the SEC and CFTC jointly classified it as a commodity. In April, it rose to $1.51 on the biggest week of ETF inflows before pulling back again after a few days.
The repeated reversals left $1.45 as the level to watch. Bird’s chart call focused on whether XRP could keep trading above that zone after the May 10 breakout, rather than slip back into the same range that stopped it four times.
TON and ONDO comparisons
Bird tied XRP to two earlier moves. Toncoin rallied 350% in the first quarter of 2024 as Telegram built TON support into its messaging app and on-chain trading expanded, then added another 110% in a single week earlier this month after Pavel Durov said he was taking over the network’s governance.
ONDO reached an all-time high of $2.15 in December 2024 after World Liberty Financial bought ONDO tokens. Bird used those breaks as the comparison set for XRP’s current setup, with the wider range still running from $1.44 to $1.45 support up to the $2 and $4 targets he outlined.
For traders, the immediate read is simple: XRP has already reclaimed $1.45, but the next test is whether buyers can keep it above that line long enough for the breakout to hold. A move back below $1.30 would put the pattern under pressure before any larger target comes into view.
