XRP price glitch sends XRP to $126 on CNBC broadcast

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.

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.