Ripple was at the center of a legal storm in the past four years as the SEC hounded the fintech company over alleged securities violations over its $XRP sales, but in the past month, the company bounced back in what could be the biggest recovery of the year.

The surge in the value of the XRP token comes amid speculation that the SEC may drop its legal case against Ripple Labs, the company that developed the XRP platform.

XRP, a token linked to Ripple Labs Inc., has vaulted rivals to become the third-largest cryptocurrency in a $100 billion rally. The token rose as much as 32% on Monday to $2.87. In the process its market capitalization topped $154.

XRP’s market capitalization has now surpassed $154 billion, despite languishing below $30 billion before Donald Trump’s re-election. Overall, the broader crypto market has now

Ripple Labs' XRP Token has come up trumps post-election to become one of the world’s biggest cryptocurrencies. The currency leapfrogged Solana’s SOL and is now fourth behind only Tether’s USDT, Ether token and of course Bitcoin.