Levi Rietveld is pushing back against extreme fear and euphoria in the XRP community, arguing that the token’s latest drop toward $1 looks less like “the end of crypto” and more like the phase in the cycle where “there is the least amount of actual interest in the asset, but the most amount of actual opportunity.”
The popular crypto market observer says they sold into October’s highs across XRP, Bitcoin and other major coins, citing Bitcoin’s four-year cycle and historical bull–bear timing. That decision, heavily criticized at the time, is now presented as a cautionary tale about following crowd sentiment at cycle peaks — and a framework for how to think about the current drawdown.
Bulls vs. Bears: ‘Truth Lies Somewhere in The Middle’
The YouTube video focuses on what the analyst describes as two “giga” extremes: one camp convinced XRP is headed below $1 and crypto is finished; another predicting a vertical move to $1,000 per coin. “What I’ve always learned is the truth always lies somewhere in the middle,” the host says.
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On price action, Levi highlights XRP’s sharp correction from about $1.07 down to a brief touch of $1 before a rebound, framing it as consistent with past pullbacks that preceded short-term bounces.
He suggests a possible bottom “somewhere just below one dollar per XRP,” while allowing that it “might even go lower than that,” but stresses that each leg down increases long-term opportunity for those dollar-cost averaging.
Levi Rietveld repeatedly warns that most participants “are buying during the highs and selling during the lows,” claiming that roughly 90% of XRP, Bitcoin, XLM and HBAR holders are currently underwater and effectively “funding the 10%” who sell into tops and accumulate in bear phases.
Liquidity, Attention & The Key Date For The Clarity Act
To capture current market psychology, the analyst plays a satirical video by TechLead about being overleveraged in Bitcoin and misreading an “attention economy” where “you don’t trade fundamentals, you trade attention and that attention is liquidity.”
While calling the skit an oversimplification, Levi agrees that new liquidity — not just diamond hands — ultimately drives prices, pointing to the NFT boom and collapse as a “pretty unreal” example of hype overwhelming underlying utility.
On the bullish side, Levi flags a recent interview with Grayscale’s Head Of Research, who suggested XRP and other tokens could be “repriced” if the proposed Clarity Act becomes law.
In that clip, the research head points to strong demand for XRP investment products and argues that clearer rules on long-term token supply — particularly if future inflation is reduced — could “help unlock value” and have “some positive effect” on price.
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He mentions an estimated bottom “just below one dollar” but acknowledge XRP could fall lower, framing it as a zone rather than a precise target.
It’s presented as a potentially meaningful catalyst: clearer rules on XRP’s supply and status could, in the Grayscale analyst’s view, support repricing and unlock additional value.
The risk is behavioral: repeating the pattern of buying into tops and capitulating at lows, rather than using historical cycle signals and market structure to guide entries and exits.
