It looks like it's still quite a long way for XRP to go that far to reach $1 this year. Yes indeed, it's still the middle of the year and there are still 2 quarters left to enter. However, if the Atlcoin season hasn't started yet, I think XRP's progress will also be like that. It won't be too fast. XRP is still like Ethereum and other altcoins which definitely follow the development of Bitcoin. Unless BTC skyrockets again and prints a new ATH again this year and then really reaches $100k this year, there might be a chance for that. Currently the price of XRP is at $0.526. So, it still has to increase 2x to reach $1. This may be a bit difficult to do if market conditions have not yet entered a bullish era.
In my own humble analysis, seems to me that there is really something wrong with XRP. While other coins like Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana and even BNB made significant inroad before and after the halving, XRP's performance is so sluggish consequently until now there is that lack of excitement with it and it can go on maybe for the rest of the year, not unless its case in court can go favorable for it otherwise it can really have a hard time reaching the $1 goal which many of its supporters and holders may have expected weeks ago but getting to be frustrated seeing its non-movement in terms of price. In fact, I have a little XRP and it made me disappointed with the way it is showing in the market.
Unfortunately, in fact it is like that. XRP has not been able to follow in the footsteps of coins of its age since it was first launched. However, if we look at the initial concept, it is really interesting. However, the progress is not that significant. In fact, it is very difficult to rise above. Meanwhile, other coins, as you said, can really rise drastically.
Maybe this is also related to the development and progress of the project. Other projects have pretty good fundamentals and they are always progressing, developing their ecosystem and products. Meanwhile, XRP is just like that. Maybe this is one of the reasons. Not to mention having problems with the SEC, it was still fortunate that XRP survived the SEC so that at that time, the coin was still safe and has survived to this day. However, as for reaching the previous ATH of $3.40, I'm quite unsure. I don't know, but it feels very difficult to achieve that, whereas it seems like XRP investors are just old investors, if new investors are more interested in new coins that are more developed, or if they are old coins, they will again choose BTC, ETH and also BNB .