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Bitcoin vs XRP
Last 7 days, both indexed to zero
Each line starts at zero seven days ago and shows the percentage move since, so the two are on the same scale regardless of what one coin costs. Seven days is a week, not a trend.
| BTC | XRP | |
|---|---|---|
| Price A higher price per coin is not a bigger asset — it is the same value cut into fewer pieces. | $63,532.00 | $1.01 |
| Market cap Price multiplied by circulating supply. The closest thing to "how big is this". | $1.27T (larger) | $63.39B |
| Rank by market cap | #1 (larger) | #6 |
| Change, 24h | ▼0.40% | ▼0.40% |
| Change, 7 days | ▼0.70% | ▼5.80% |
| 24h volume How much actually changed hands. Thin volume against a large market cap means the price is easier to move than the cap suggests. | $19.82B (larger) | $1.27B |
| Daily turnover Volume as a share of market cap — how much of the asset trades in a day. | 1.55% | 2.00% (larger) |
| Circulating supply | 20,068,818 BTC | 62,533,271,955 XRP (larger) |
| Supply cap A hard cap and an uncapped supply are different designs, not a better and a worse one — what matters is whether issuance is predictable. | 21,000,000 max | 100,000,000,000 max |
| Below all-time high How far each sits under its own record price. It says where the price has been, not where it is going. | ▼49.61% | ▼72.25% |
| All-time high | $126,080.00 Oct 2025 | $3.65 Jul 2025 |
A highlighted figure is simply the larger of the two. It is marked on size, liquidity and supply — where bigger is a fact — and deliberately not on price or on percentage change, where "bigger" would be us implying a winner.
How Bitcoin and XRP actually differ
Bitcoin is a bearer asset with a fixed supply and no company behind it. XRP is the native asset of the XRP Ledger, a payment-settlement network launched in 2012, and it exists to move value between currencies quickly and cheaply. The two are answering different questions, and the ownership structure is the clearest sign of it.
All 100 billion XRP were created at launch. Ripple, the company, holds a large portion released gradually from escrow, which means supply reaching the market is a corporate schedule rather than a mining reward. Bitcoin's new supply comes from mining, halves roughly every four years, and stops at 21 million. The consensus mechanisms differ just as sharply: Bitcoin spends electricity to make history expensive to rewrite; the XRP Ledger uses a set of validators that participants choose to trust, which is why it settles in seconds at negligible cost and why its security model rests on that trust rather than on energy.
The honest costs. Bitcoin is slow and expensive to use for payments, which is why almost nobody does. XRP's history is tied to a single company and to litigation — the SEC sued Ripple in 2020, a 2023 ruling found that programmatic sales on exchanges were not securities offerings while some institutional sales were, and the matter concluded in 2025 — and its ledger has no native smart-contract layer, so the application ecosystem around it is thin compared with a general-purpose chain. One is a scarce asset that is awkward to spend; the other is a fast settlement token whose distribution and direction are shaped by a company.
What each one is
Bitcoin
Bitcoin is a decentralised digital currency launched in 2009 by a person or group writing under the name Satoshi Nakamoto. It runs on a public network of computers that agree on a shared ledger, so a payment can settle without a bank, a payment processor, or a government sitting in the middle.
XRP
XRP is the native asset of the XRP Ledger, a payment network that launched in 2012 and is closely associated with the company Ripple. It was built for one purpose: moving value between currencies quickly and cheaply, with transactions settling in seconds for a fraction of a cent.
Where each one lives
Bitcoin
Native asset. BTC has no token contract — it is the asset of its own chain, not a token issued on someone else's.
XRP
Native asset. XRP has no token contract — it is the asset of its own chain, not a token issued on someone else's.
Whichever you hold, holding it yourself is the same problem
Both of these can sit on an exchange, and on an exchange neither of them is yours in the way people assume. If you decide to hold either one properly, this is the category that does it — devices that keep the keys off any internet-connected machine.
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Figures for Bitcoin and XRP synced 2m ago from CoinGecko and shown in USD. This page is market information and education, not financial advice, and nothing on it is a recommendation to buy or sell BTC or XRP. Both can lose value.