Renewed geopolitical uncertainty, technical rejection at $1.40, and weakening on-chain activity have all converged on April 9 to push XRP back 3.75% to $1.33.
Due April 10, the upcoming U.S. Consumer Price Index (CPI) report is emerging as the next macro test, with the short-term bias remaining cautiously bearish.
The current price now serves as a critical support level, as holding above it could open the door for a rebound toward the $1.35–$1.38 range, while a breakdown below the same threshold may accelerate losses toward $1.28 or lower.
Assessing the situation, Claude, Anthropic’s AI model, projects that the cryptocurrency is most likely to remain where it is now, which puts it in opposition to some other large language models (LLM).
XRP will remain range-bound in April, Claude AI says
Specifically, Claude predicts that XRP is going to trade in the $1.30–$1.45 range by April 30, with the upper limit achievable “if the news cooperates.”
For the digital asset to climb further, to around $1.60 or above, the CLARITY Act would need to advance hand-in-hand with positive Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) signals.
If XRP fails to hold its support levels, and if macro conditions worse, the price faces downside risk and a price as low as $1.15.
As the algorithm could not detect any major catalysts that could break the trend decisively in either direction, it concluded that the most probable outcome is “sideways to slightly up.”
Machine learning algorithms disagree on XRP price prediction
As mentioned, Claude’s projection is different from those offered by some of its competitors, which appear to be decisively bearish.
For example, Finbold’s AI prediction agent, which aggregates forecasts from LLMs including DeepSeek, Gemini, and ChatGPT, recently estimated that XRP was going to trade at $1.22 by April 30, 2026.
In the long run, the same tool forecast an average decrease in XRP price of nearly 4% by early summer 2026, with a price target of $1.28 by June 8.
As stated, XRP is currently testing a key support zone near $1.33, a level that previously marked its peak during the 2021 bull cycle. However, sentiment has now deteriorated following the emergence of a weekly Death Cross, where the 20-period simple moving average crossed below the 100-period SMA. Historically, similar setups have preceded declines of at least 27% for XRP.
Should this pattern repeat, the token could in fact slide toward $0.94 in the near term, echoing price action seen after a comparable signal in May 2022.
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