Crypto traders are used to the surge in prices of non-serious cryptocurrencies such as Dogecoin (Doge) as a sign of a market bubble. Now, XRP, a payment-focused cryptocurrency, appears to be able to be used as an indicator of Bitcoin (BTC)’s bull market peak.

Unlike meme tokens like Doge and Shiba Inu (Shib), XRP has a utility. Used by Ripple to facilitate cross-border transactions. This will place it in the bucket.

Still, since 2017, XRP has been the opposite indicator for the Bitcoin Bulls, often trending to surge by hundreds of percent in the final stages of the BTC Bull Run, marking the point where Bitcoin finally peaked.

XRP experienced an astounding ten times more rally from December 2017 to early 2018. This coincided with the Bitcoin peak and the approximately $20,000 peak before entering the bear market that lasted almost a year.

A similar vertical spike in XRP occurred in early 2021, marking another bull market peak for Bitcoin. The XRP surge in late 2024 foreseen the Bitcoin bull market peak above $109,000, then below $80,000.

As said, “It’s likely to happen at least once, twice is coincidence, three times is trending.”

The next time BTC runs in the hot, a savvy trader might want to look at XRP for a potential signal about the end of a bull run.