The Internet Computer could have a rapid price pump to over $100 at almost any time. From around $2.22, where it sits as I write this, that sounds like pure fantasy — it's nearly a 50x. But here's the thing: ICP's price has been suppressed extremely hard, and suppression like that doesn't release gently. This is my opinion and speculation, not financial advice, and I'm holding thousands of ICP.
The boiling-pot setup
Picture a pot of water with someone holding the lid down while it boils. The pressure just builds and builds. That's how I see ICP right now. All it takes is a catalyst — steady momentum from enterprise and cloud use, a country like Pakistan adopting it, a Swiss subnet, a news cycle, or influencers suddenly "discovering" it — and the lid comes off. We've already watched ICP run from $3 to $10 in a single week. With consistent spot buying against a supply this suppressed, a fast move over $100 is well within reach.
Undervalued next to the trash above it
At today's price ICP is, in my view, absurdly undervalued — it deserves something closer to a $50 billion market cap. Then look at what carries bigger valuations: XRP, which I find technologically useless; BNB, an exchange coin; Ethereum, aging infrastructure that could buckle under its own DeFi load; and Bitcoin, with a cap I think is ridiculous for what it does. ICP has more to gain than any of them from the price rising, because it's the one with real underlying technology. The others don't have the fundamentals to justify where they already are.
The pump-and-crash I actually expect
Here's the cynical-but-realistic part. If I were the hidden hand, I'd keep the lid on as long as possible while quietly accumulating, then let it break out only once my bags were full. Suddenly every influencer is shouting "we just discovered ICP, the tech was here the whole time." The price runs to euphoria — $70, $80, $100 — and then gets dumped back to $20 or $30 to enable re-accumulation. I genuinely think that's a probable path, and it means a lot of people will buy over $100 and panic-sell at $20 to $30. Which is funny, because most of us today would be thrilled with $20 or $30.
How I'm playing it
For those of us already in, most will do well — and most will probably sell early, before the top. That's exactly why you keep some staked and locked: so you're not shaken out, and so you still have a position through the crash that almost certainly follows. And underneath all the price games, the long-term truth holds: eventually the technology has to actually do something useful for the world, and ICP is the network built to do it.
None of this is financial advice — it's how I see it playing out. It's the same point as why market caps are a distraction: the price and the value have drifted far apart. For the full case, watch my ICP playlist here.