XRP created a historic record when it became the only altcoin to remain in the world's top 10 cryptocurrencies by market cap since 2014.
The achievement makes XRP one of the most consistent digital assets in the crypto industry for over a decade.
At the time of writing, the price of Bitcoin is at $1.0878, up 0.02% since it opened early Monday in Asian trading.
CoinGecko data shows that XRP has never left the list of the top 10 cryptocurrencies despite the market going through various price cycles.
During the same period, many crypto projects that were once in the top group such as Litecoin, Dash, NEM, Namecoin and Peercoin failed to maintain their respective positions.
In 2014, XRP was in eighth place with a market cap of around $32 million.
A year later, XRP jumped to second place behind Bitcoin before maintaining its third position from 2017 to 2019.
By 2025, XRP was in fourth place with a market cap of nearly $127.9 billion.
Ethereum is also one of the world's largest digital assets, but the network only launched in 2015.
This makes XRP the only altcoin to have managed to maintain a position in the top 10 since 2014, apart from Bitcoin, which was the first cryptocurrency.
XRP's resilience was also tested when the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a lawsuit against Ripple between 2020 and 2023.
The move led to several major crypto exchanges delisting XRP, but the digital asset still managed to maintain a large enough market cap to remain in the crypto industry's elite.
Analysts see the achievement as evidence that XRP still has strong demand among investors and financial institutions, especially for cross-border payment uses.
These factors help XRP remain relevant even as the crypto industry landscape continues to change with the emergence of various new projects.
This record also solidifies XRP's position as one of the most enduring digital assets in the history of the crypto market.
Its ability to maintain its status as one of the world's largest cryptocurrencies for over a decade is seen as an indicator of the level of investor confidence in the asset in the long term.
