We offer a forecast of the Ripple exchange rate for the last six months of this year.Ripple is an interesting, but rather volatile cryptocurrency ecosystem, depending on a number of market and third-party factors. The most relevant is the battle with the financial regulator, where, despite the pessimism of observers, the crypto system wins against the state. We will tell you what experts think about the prospects of its ecosystem, and offer a forecast of the Ripple exchange rate for 2021.What factors determine the forecast of the Ripple exchange rateAccording to the analytical group StormGain, in December 2020, the SEC (the US Securities and Exchange Commission) required Ripple to provide financial information about the accounts of the company and its founders for the past eight years.This followed a claim about the illegal sale of a cryptocurrency worth a total of $1.3 billion, since XRP must be a security to attract investment.Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse and co-founder Chris Larsen called the regulator's requirements "inappropriate abuse of authority" and "invasion of privacy", sending a counterclaim to the court. "Because of the regulator's claims, Ripple, which was once in the top 3 by capitalization, missed the autumn 2020 rally. But now he has grounds for returning his positions," StormGain analysts note.The court granted the request of the Ripple executives to reject the SEC's request for detailed financial information. This is the second victory over the regulator, since last week the court confirmed the company's right to study the internal official correspondence of the SEC. Ripple is trying to find out on what basis the regulator considers the cryptocurrency a security."In the absence of proper grounds, the regulator's claim will be insignificant. Two court cases won against the SEC increase the likelihood of this event. The same is believed by investors who are actively buying XRP for the second week. During this time, the price has tripled, and the number of new addresses has almost reached a six - month maximum," analysts share information.April turned out to be a month of won court cases for Ripple. In addition to the debate with the SEC, the company emerged victorious from a legal dispute with Tetragon Financial Group. As an investment attraction partner for Ripple, Tetragon demanded a share repurchase. However, this scenario is prescribed in the contract in case XRP is recognized as a security. Since the cryptocurrency did not receive such a status, the court rejected the claim. Now Tetragon must pay legal costs, the amount of which has reached $3.4 million."There is still no final decision on the status of XRP, respectively, the key risks remain," analysts doubt. Nevertheless, they are confident that the three court cases won in April significantly fueled interest in this cryptocurrency and positively influenced Ripple's forecast.Ripple Forecast: the main advantagesThe battle with the state is just an episode in the history of cryptocurrency, yes, this example is vivid and indicative, but there are a lot of other factors by which you can evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of this cryptosystem. To begin with, XRP is a formally unrelated cryptocurrency to Ripple, which the RippleNet network uses as an intermediary token for some transactions.Among the advantages of the currency, analysts of the Exmo exchange call the low cost of transactions. When processing each transaction in the RippleNet network, the system writes off 0.00001 XRP from the initiator. This is not a commission that goes in favor of the validator, the owner of the system or someone else. "The platform simply writes off these coins from the sender's account, and they are destroyed, which is necessary to protect transactions from spam and reduce the risks of manipulating the cryptocurrency exchange rate," experts note.The next advantage is the lack of mining, which also has a positive effect on Ripple's forecast for 2021. The cryptocurrency uses an original consensus algorithm, which implies the creation of a small pool of trusted nodes for validating transactions. At the same time, each participant chooses which nodes he will entrust the verification of his transactions (as in Stellar).In addition, the cryptosystem has a relatively high throughput. Theoretically, the network is capable of processing up to 1500 operations per second. For comparison, Bitcoin has 7 TPS, Ether-20 TPS, Visa-24000 TPS. Analysts also emphasize the high speed of transactions — they are confirmed in four seconds in the XRP Ledger.Ripple Forecast: the main disadvantagesHowever, there is also enough criticism about this ecosystem. The main critic of the Ripple startup, IT analyst and Forbes expert Jason Bloomberg, considers this cryptocurrency network dubious and even accuses its creators of fraud. Here are the most reasonable arguments that negatively affect the long-term forecast of Ripple.According to Exmo analysts with reference to Bloomberg, Ripple created an open source XRP Ledger "community" to hide the fact that they had issued hundreds of millions of XRP, most of which they kept for themselves. According to the expert, Ripple is strongly fenced off from the management of XRP, although the company has created this community and manages it.Moreover, the startup claims that their product solves the problem of liquidity in cross-currency banking operations through the mediation of XRP. However, as a critic of the system states, " in order for XRP to work as an intermediary, banks must maintain sufficient XRP reserves that will allow them to respond to transaction requests."This approach, according to Bloomberg, cannot work for two reasons. Firstly, banks and other network participants do not want to hold capital in XRP due to the high volatility of the coin. A currency whose price has fallen by 80% today, and will grow by 100% in a month, simply cannot be a reliable intermediary.Read more: Volatility: types, how to track and how to useSecondly, reserving funds in XRP does not solve the main problem of money transfers from countries with more stable national currencies to countries with less stable currencies, since such transactions usually go only in one direction.However, as practice has shown, the Ripple technology simply does not work as its creators tell about it, which is why most of the statements about integration with large banks and other payment services eventually led to nothing.In particular, Ripple was tested by American Express, Santander, Western Union, and they refused it, because the transfers were not instant, but took up to two days, and the transaction price was also higher than the stated one.Is it worth buying RippleThe bullish growth of 2020, which began by the end of the year, helped the value of the asset to rise. The Ripple exchange rate reached $0.8 before ending the year at $0.66. The beginning of 2021 was supposed to be a continuation of the growth in the value of XRP, but this did not happen due to the SEC's announcement of a lawsuit.Read more: How to determine the beginning of the movement of the "bull" market?After the announcement, some exchanges excluded XRP from their platform. Many of those who held the token also sold in a panic. This led to the fact that the Ripple rate fell to $0.166. However, it rose again, rising to $0.755.In 2021, the Ripple exchange rate opened at $0.219. In January, the lowest price of XRP was fixed at $0.215, and the highest price was $0.499. XRP was trading at $0.415 in early March, then reached a low of $0.413, reaching a high of $0.602.At the beginning of May, the XRP rate was at $1.60. In the same month, the lowest price was recorded at $0.652, and the highest - $1.76. According to Moody's research, 2021 will be a good year for blockchain with a huge increase in standards, which will directly affect the price of Ripple.Ripple already has development plans for 2021. Considering how past events or have led to an increase in the value of XRP, the currency can reach $2. This will happen if the actions of Ripple technology lead to partnerships with a large number of financial organizations.Ripple's forecast for 2021The maximum projected price for the year is $2, although it may also fall, since the minimum price forecast is $0.1, if the SEC lawsuit is not settled in favor of Ripple.According to the experts of Investing Haven, the price of the token should have reached $20. At first, they assumed that the coin would reach the coveted maximum in 2019, later they shifted their forecast first to 2020, and then to 2021.The trader of Credible Crypto believes that the bullish trend will give the coin a powerful impetus and Ripple will grow by more than 1000%. As a result, by the end of 2021, the cryptocurrency exchange rate will reach $25-30.According to CoinSwitch's forecast, XRP can reach the $2 mark in 2021, trade at about $3 in 2023 and grow to $4.52 in 2025, thanks to new partnerships and new technologies.WalletInvestor is quite pessimistic about the prospects of Ripple and does not recommend it as an investment. Although, according to analysts, the asset will grow above $1 in 2021. It is worth noting that last year's forecast of the company was not fulfilled: they predicted a drop in the price to $0.026 in November.According to experts of the TradingBeasts platform, in December 2021, the Ripple exchange rate is projected at an average of $0.6639923. The expected maximum price is $0.8299904, the minimum price is $0.5643935.From the point of view of fundamental analysis,XRP is clearly undervalued. Due to its features, it is difficult to compare it with other cryptocurrencies.But the coin has a real application – XRP has universal liquidity, is scalable and is cheaper than its competitors. In addition, despite the recent growth, it is still far from its historical maximum of $3.3. Since this asset has really good prospects, we can expect it to grow in the ...