In recent weeks, there is a crypto that is definitely moving against the trend in the markets: it is BNB, whose performance is
Today, in particular, we compare it with that of Cardano and XRP, in order to have some reference points to understand its uniqueness.
The latest crypto analyses on Cardano (ADA), XRP, and BNB
The price of ADA (the native cryptocurrency of Cardano) is slightly up today.
However, one should not get carried away by easy enthusiasm, because the trend is actually not positive.
In fact, Cardano still loses 5% compared to seven days ago, and 7% compared to thirty days ago.
Its medium-term trend is in some ways similar to that of XRP: a strong rise after Trump‘s electoral victory at the end of 2024, followed by a long period of volatile lateralization still ongoing.
In particular, the price of ADA between October and December 2024 had jumped from $0.3 to over $1.2. However, it has not yet managed to return to those levels.
In fact, starting from the second decade of December, a retracement began that only ended in June below $0.6. The lowest point of 2025 still stopped at a level double the starting price of October 2024, but it was still a -50% from the local highs in just a few months.
Nevertheless, in July there was a rebound that brought it into a new lateralization range, which is still ongoing, between $0.7 and $0.9 with rare exceptions.
The current price of $0.8 is perfectly within this range, including the local lows and highs of October.
It’s as if it’s waiting for something to start moving significantly again.
XRP: analysis and price forecasts
XRP is in a situation very similar to ADA in the last thirty days.
The significant difference lies in the fact that it hasn’t lost much from the local highs during 2025, remaining practically always within a lateralization range between $2 and $3.3 with rare exceptions.
This, however, should be considered absolutely normal, because usually XRP behaves exactly like this, alternating brief moments characterized by significant movements with long periods of lateralization.
Even XRP has started a new phase of even more compressed lateralization since July.
In fact, it has been almost three months now that it oscillates only between $2.7 and $3.3 with very rare exceptions.
Even in the case of XRP, it seems as if it is waiting for something to start moving significantly again.
What XRP and ADA might be waiting for to move significantly could simply be the altseason, which is that period when the vast majority of altcoins begin to outperform Bitcoin.
At this moment, the altcoin season index by CMC is in a neutral zone, but in the past, in similar situations to the current one, an altseason has eventually been triggered.
BNB reigns over the crypto market
BNB, however, is an exception.
It is the only crypto in the top 20 by market capitalization to have delivered a very significant performance in the last thirty days.
To be honest, with the Trump-trade at the end of 2024, the price of BNB only rose from $550 to $750, and subsequently during 2025 it hit a low of $530.
In other words, between the end of 2024 and mid-2025, it moved much less compared to other crypto like Cardano and XRP.
The turning point occurred starting in July, when within just two weeks it reached $840, thus marking a new all-time high.
Although at the beginning of August it then tried to correct, in the middle of the month its bullrun resumed, so much so that in September it even surpassed $900.
In recent days, it first surpassed $1,000 for the first time in its history, then swiftly exceeded $1,100, $1,200, and finally $1,300 on Tuesday.
Behind this powerful rise is probably the increase in market demand for BNB due to a strong increase in transactions on BNB chain (formerly BSC).
BNB is the native cryptocurrency of the BNB chain, so transaction fees on this chain must be paid in BNB. The more transactions there are, the more BNB is needed to pay the fees.
