Market analysts' ripple price forecast for early Q2 suggests a range between $0.50 and $0.58, driven by increasing whale transactions and rising cross-border settlement volumes. When prices for crude are high, the going is good for the oil and gas industry. Heightened prices give companies a reason to boost their investments in production equipment and drill more wells because they know they'll get a good price for their product. When prices fall, the expense of drilling is harder to justify. The same firms that backed Uber, Venmo and eBay are investing in this pre-IPO company disrupting a $1.8T market — and you can too at just $2.90/share. Ripple price forecast suggests a possible correlation with Ethereum’s Layer-2 adoption curve, potentially sparking renewed institutional interest in XRP Ledger.