XRP briefly showed at $126 on CNBC due to a ticker error pasting Solana’s price, reviving XRP “ghost print” lore despite being only a display glitch.
Summary
- CNBC’s “Crypto World” briefly flashed XRP at $126.01, a 6,532% premium to its real price near $1.90.
- Producers later confirmed XRP’s quote mistakenly reused Solana’s spot price during the segment.
- The glitch adds to XRP’s history of “ghost prints” and comes as spot XRP ETFs absorb supply and pass $1b in assets.
An on‑air pricing glitch briefly turned XRP into a three‑digit asset this week, after CNBC’s “Crypto World” show flashed the token at $126.01, implying a 6,532% premium to reality and instantly lighting up trader chatrooms.
What Happened On Air
During the Jan. 28 segment on the Senate Agriculture Committee’s crypto market structure hearing, the show’s ticker correctly showed Bitcoin changing hands at $89,532, down 0.39% on the week, and Ethereum at $2,996, nursing a 0.77% weekly pullback.
But when the camera cut to XRP, the on‑screen graphic suddenly listed “$126.01, -3.8% (7D),” a level that, as the article notes, “represented a 6,532% increase from XRP’s actual price of $1.90 at the time.”
That visual misprint fed straight into a long‑running subculture of XRP holders who insist such “glitches” hint at a hidden fair value once full utility is priced in, even though this episode, as TheCryptoBasic stresses, “was merely just a display issue on the part of CNBC.”
Producers later confirmed the show had effectively pasted Solana’s then‑spot value—around $126—into the XRP slot. “On Jan. 28, the show mispriced XRP by using Solana’s value in its place,” the report explains.
This parabolic move comes as digital assets continue to trade as the purest expression of macro risk appetite. Bitcoin (BTC) is hovering around $82,792, with a 24‑hour range roughly between $81,000 and $88,029, on about $79.3B in dollar volumes. Ethereum (ETH) changes hands close to $2,725, with around $43.0B in 24‑hour turnover. XRP (XRP) trades near $1.76, down about 6.3% over the last day, with roughly $5.4B in spot volume.
A History Of XRP “Ghost Prints”
The CNBC mispricing drops neatly into a long catalogue of XRP price anomalies. In April 2023, Bitrue’s futures market briefly printed $0.0001 on XRP, liquidating long positions before the order book snapped back.
November 2025 saw Kraken wick to $0.00272 during a low‑liquidity window, even as the broader market still valued XRP around $2.18.
Upside spikes have been even more surreal. TradingView once showed XRP “near $9,864” in May 2020 while the token actually traded close to $0.21.
Subsequent data feed failures pushed it to $161 million on CoinMarketCap and Coinbase in December 2021, $50 on Gemini in August 2023, $34,603 on CoinMarketCap that October, $22.50 on Coinbase in August 2024, and “more than $21,000 during a live TV broadcast” in March 2025.
For derivatives desks, each ghost print is noise—but it rhymes with the speculative fervor now building around XRP spot ETFs, after analysts warned ETF demand could absorb around 1% of circulating supply, building on December’s milestone, when XRP ETF assets first surpassed $1b.
