Officially called XRP, ripple climbed nearly 33 percent to an all-time high of $1.90, according to CoinMarketCap.
The digital currency briefly had a market capitalization of more than $71.8 billion, a few hundred million greater than ethereum at the time.
The company known as Ripple owns 61 percent of the 100 billion XRP in existence, worth about $115.9 billion at Friday's record high prices.
Ripple to the moon!!!