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In this article, we will analyze the trend of the price of XRP (Ripple) and LINK (Chainlink), comparing it with that of Bitcoin and Ethereum to grasp the differences.
Summary
Analysis of the price trend of XRP and LINK (Chainlink)
XRP is the native cryptocurrency of the crypto platform created by Ripple.
For some time now, its price has been following a trend somewhat different from that of the two main criptovalute. It should be noted that, excluding stablecoins, XRP is third in market capitalization, with its 105 billion dollars, behind Bitcoin at 1.5 trillion and Ethereum at 177 billion.
After the enormous effect of the Trump trade on XRP at the end of 2024, which brought its price from $0.5 to $2.7, a period of lateralization began, concluding only at the end of March.
During those three months, the price of XRP always fluctuated between $2 and $3.3, which means a relatively high degree of volatility.
XRP in fact over time has shown to have an average volatility in the medium/long term lower than that of BTC and ETH, although sometimes it spikes for short periods, therefore it is somewhat surprising that for three months it had such pronounced volatility compared to its average.
But with the start of the great trade war of Trump with tariff blows, the crypto market went into crisis, dragging XRP along with it.
The drop in the price of XRP
However, while Ethereum has lost 29% in the last thirty days, and 21% in just the last seven, XRP stops at -17% in the last thirty, with a -13% compared to seven days ago.
Instead, Bitcoin limits its losses to -6% in the last thirty days, with a -8% in the last seven.
Therefore, XRP is not holding up as well as Bitcoin to the recent decline in the crypto markets, but it is holding up significantly better than Ethereum.
At this point, it is worth comparing it also with SOL of Solana, for example, which loses more or less as much as XRP.
So if until the end of March XRP had held up well, with this latest crisis it has realigned with the crypto markets, although at least it is suffering less than Ethereum.
Note that compared to the price at the beginning of the year, the current $1.8 of XRP are only 13% lower, while Bitcoin is at -17%. Additionally, Ethereum is at -56% and Solana at -44%. This data very well represents the relatively lower volatility in the medium/long term of the price of XRP compared to that of other cryptocurrencies.
The trend of LINK (Chainlink) price: same fate as XRP?
A different discussion is about the trend of the prezzo di LINK, the token of Chainlink.
LINK has now slipped to the 13th position by market capitalization, after having managed to enter the top 10 for a moment. It now capitalizes just over 7 billion dollars, which is much less than even XRP.
The volatility of LINK is significantly higher than that of XRP, even in the medium/long term, while it is quite in line, for example, with that of ETH or SOL. However, it is a crypto that is significantly more speculative than these, so much so that it has practically lost all the gains obtained with the Trump trade.
At the end of October, the prezzo di LINK was around $11, and it reached a relative peak in December above $29.
That parabolic rise looked a lot like a mini-bubble, also because LINK is a speculative asset in the crypto markets, and in fact, by the end of December, it had already shown signs of weakness.
The burst of the mini-bolla however occurred only in February, when the price fell back below $20, and continued in March with a further drop below $15.
Currently, it is positioned just above $11, which is in line with the prezzo at the end of October.
The comparison of LINK with BTC and ETH
The prezzo di LINK is losing 20% in the last thirty days, and 17% in the last seven.
In other words, it not only performs worse than BTC, but it also performs worse than XRP and SOL. However, it still performs better than ETH.
In fact, the performance of ETH in the crypto markets in 2025 is unusual compared to the other crypto, because among the main ones it is the one that is suffering the most.
So putting aside ETH, LINK turns out to be in the range of those that suffer the most, among the top 15.
However, if we take the decline since the beginning of the year as a reference, it is perfectly in line with that of SOL, therefore it is not experiencing an unusual period. In other words, it has simply fallen back in line after a remarkable performance at the end of 2024.
It remains nevertheless at -80% from the historical highs, that is, for example, in line with Dogecoin.