RIPPLE CEO: 10X "NO PROBLEM" - 100X MAYBE!?

See why XRP COULD EXPLODE - CLARITY ACT *VOTE* IN JULY?

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SPEAKER_03 0:00

What if I told you that Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse predicted that the crypto market would be worth over $25 trillion by the year 2030? Well, during today's episode, we're going to be playing a very interesting interview between Brad Garlinghouse and an industry executive, where he goes on to describe exactly that. And the question that I have for our listeners that we're going to be diving into is where does this put the XRP token if all of this comes to fruition? If the XRP token were to even capture 10% of the total market cap at that point, that would be $2.5 trillion in a market cap for XRP, equaling over a $35 token at the current circulating supply. Well, during today's episode, we're going to be breaking down just how likely it is that this occurs and how likely it is that the Clarity Act gets across the finish line in the summer of 2026. Hello and welcome back to another episode of Good Evening Crypto, your favorite crypto news related channel. If you enjoy this content, smash that like button and subscribe as you're going to get an update every single day, 5 30 p.m. Eastern time. We're going to waste no time diving straight into the content we have prepared for today, but I would encourage all of our listeners to stick around until the end of the episode so you can see just how powerful Ripple is positioning the XRP ledger to be as the new digital financial system is being developed before our very eyes. But to kick off today's show, I wanted to give you guys an update on where the Clarity Act sits today. As we've been reporting, there were emergency meetings held this week in Washington, DC. As a Clarity Act meeting was officially held on Monday, the Senate teams are preparing for a vote in July. White House officials officially met with major U.S. lawmakers and organizations on Monday as negotiations continue to prepare the Clarity Act for a full Senate floor vote later on this month. And as we've stated from day one on this channel, July is a make or break month for the Clarity Act because starting on August 3rd, the midterm elections come around, and we're not going to be talking about the Clarity Act possibly until October of 2026. Now, many of the most powerful law enforcement executives were attending this meeting at the White House, with police, sheriffs, organizations, and associations alike all attending this event to discuss what this means for the future of crypto. Well, officials spent the meeting explaining how the Clarity Act would strengthen law enforcement's ability to fight crypto-related crime and answering the concerns about the current legislation. Meanwhile, the controversial blockchain regulatory certainty act was not discussed. The Department of Justice defended the bill against criticism from the policing groups, and supporters are now trying to convince key organizations from opposing the bill to a neutral position. Several Democratic lawmakers have pointed to the law enforcement opposition as the reason for not supporting the current state of the Clarity Act. If these concerns can be resolved, officials are pushing for a Clarity Act vote before the end of July. And as I've stated on several occasions, if you listen to the industry executives like Tim Scott and Senator Cynthia Loomis, they are telling us a vote is on schedule for this calendar month. And here's what Tim Scott had to say just a week ago. I agree with Senate leader John Thune, the Senate should vote on crypto market legislation in July. And so I want to hear from you guys do you believe the Clarity Act will end up being voted on in the summer of 2026? If you do, smash that like button. If you don't, leave some of your thoughts underneath the video. But with that being said, we're gonna dive into the video that everybody came here for. As Ripple's CEO previously predicted the crypto market could reach a $25 trillion market cap by the year 2030. And if you just exacerbate where the market sits today, that puts the XRP token in a position to be well over a trillion dollars of market cap. But I want to hear from you guys what is your prediction for XRP by the year 2030? Throw that in the live chat or underneath the video. Here's an interview from Brad Garlinghouse discussing exactly this how the crypto market can reach these massive price targets and just how far away we are from a decatrillion dollar crypto market. Here's the click. It's inevitable.

SPEAKER_02 3:41

And it's inevitable that you know that right now we're talking about two and a half trillion. You know, look, I do I think this is an easy 10x over the next five to 10 years. Yeah, no problem. I don't that doesn't freak me out when I say that at all. Like that's conservative if you just that feels safe. I mean, to the earlier conversation around asymmetric returns, is there a chance that it's 100x in that time frame? It feels aggressive, but I don't know. Like uh I I think that's many people in the United States particularly don't understand what it would be like to have lived in Argentina and have the Argentinian peso devalued effectively to zero multiple times in my lifetime. Why would you hold that currency? We don't realize that could become us. Exactly the point, right? Like, uh I think that we underestimate what that macrodynamic looks like over the long term. And so I'm, you know, incredibly bullish.

SPEAKER_03 4:38

I the reason I'm and so really quick, guys, I do want to hear from you. One's in chat if you believe the crypto market can do a 10x by the year 2030, that means you think the overall market cap would be $25 trillion. But here's what really caught my attention is that Brad Garlinghouse went as far as to say this market could do a 100x over the next decade. That would mean a $250 trillion market cap for the future of crypto. Now, if somebody asked me if I think we're gonna get that far over the next decade or so, I would say no. A hundred trillion dollar market is far greater than even some of my biggest projections. But if somebody as powerful as Brad Garlinghouse is willing to say this, he must know there's a narrative brewing behind the scenes. And I think that narrative is a global financial reset. But let's continue.

SPEAKER_02 5:21

I'm dodging the question only slightly because I like what's the timeline for this year? I mean, I have said publicly I think that the market will be over 5 trillion by the end of this year, which is a double from where we are now. How that applies to Bitcoin versus XRP. I mean, like people forget before the SEC got involved and said that ETH is not a security, XRP was the second most valuable digital asset. Wow, that was that wasn't that long ago. That wasn't long ago, what, three, four years? 2018 when gave his speech. So six years, a little less than six years ago. Yeah, five, five years in change. And, you know, look, when a government actor gets involved, you know, the markets change, and maybe that's to be expected. Yeah, unfortunately, you still have that government actor involved. Unfortunately, you still see in I I believe what I read usually, you know, look, it appears the SEC is trying to mount a case against ETH. You know, to me that's absurd. To me, that's like you you've already lost a bunch. Why would you keep fighting this fight? Yeah But you know, look, it unfortunately, I don't think the US government should be putting their hands on the scale of winners and losers. In the long run, I think the best technologies applied with the best use cases, delivering the best utility, they'll win.

SPEAKER_03 6:44

And so what I think Brad Garlinghouse is really describing in this clip is how the market is about to evolve from a market that is purely based on speculation to a market that's driven by real products and real utility. And whether it's the likes of BlackRock, Fidelity, and Goldman Sachs moving into the space, or it's some of the governments that we've been discussing, because we know Japan is also going to play a very important role. There is a digital revolution that's already taking place before our very eyes. And the question that Ripple has to answer is where does XRP fit into this equation? Well, everything that Ripple's done over the past decade or so has put XRP in a position to succeed, whether it be the 1700 NDAs, the 300 financial institutions that are publicly working with them, the consortiums they're a part of, the acquisitions they've made, the stable coins they've launched, XRP is in a position to see a massive influx of demand and eventually a massive increase in the XRP price chart. And if Brad Garlinghouse believes across the board that this industry is going to win and we're going to see this asset class go from only two and a half trillion to a minimum of $25 trillion by the end of this decade, well, that means that the XRP ledger, even in its current position, would be well over a trillion dollars in market cap. But that's the question that I have for you guys. Do you believe XRP will be worth over a trillion dollars in market cap by the year 2030? If you fall in line with some of these projections from someone like Jay Claver, you think it's gonna be well above some of these price targets and you don't think it's gonna take anywhere near four or five years. But there's a whole other section of the demographic here that exists in the crypto space that is waiting for the utility to be slowly onboarded. And a lot of that has to do with the passing of the Clarity Act. So these companies feel comfortable integrating these technologies. But if we're gonna approach this from a purely speculative view, I think there's a whole lot of opportunity in the XRP price chart as well. And I've often drawn the correlation to what we saw back in 2017, where XRP was trading in purgatory here, down and sideways for the better half of three years, and all of a sudden we got a massive movement up and to the right, and we saw 70,000% gains in only 240 days. Now, what was the reason for that? Ripple officially launched the escrow and they announced that they were gonna be locking up all of these tokens for a minimum of 55 months. This led to a massive supply shock moment. Well, what do I think is brewing here for the XRP community? We are on the precipice of something very similar, whether it be the Clarity Act integrating these blockchain products for real world utility, or Ripple gets a federal banking license and decides, hey, we're not gonna sell any more of the escrow, we're gonna use this as collateral to be the first digital bank in America going forward. All of these different narratives position XRP to not only play a massive role, but to experience massive price appreciation in order to facilitate all of these use cases. But you don't have to take my word for it. Here's what Brad Garlinghaus had to say just three weeks ago.

SPEAKER_01 9:21

To do things that are good for the XRP community. Like it is a driving mission. And I hope that when Ripple's thinking about an acquisition, we're thinking about it as okay, how does that catalyze things within XRP? When we make investments outside of Ripple, how does that, yeah, how do people adopt XRP? When we help partner, we want a really high-class, high-quality digital asset treasury company like Ever North to exist. We think that's good for the community, we think it's good for Ripple shareholders, we think it's good for everybody. Uh, and so yeah, we want to see that happen and we'll continue to lean into things like that.

SPEAKER_03 9:52

And so, how does this market go from $2.5 trillion to a $25 trillion market cap? The institutional adoption that we've been discussing has to happen in real time. And a lot of this has to do with the ETFs, it has to do with the stable coins, but it also has to do with what Evernorth is developing as the first XRP treasury company that's allowing institutional clients to earn a yield on their native XRP. So this is not only gonna incentivize to people to go out, purchase XRP, and hold it on their balance sheet, they're now gonna be earning a passive income for years to come. So they never feel the need to liquidate that asset. But let's listen to the CEO describe exactly this.

SPEAKER_00 10:26

Our our mission is really to accelerate um XRP's institutional adoption. And this is like, I think, something that uh we've said over the years is that uh we're not disruptors um in the traditional sense. Uh, we're bridge builders. And uh, you know, the the XRP ledger, uh companies like Evernorth, uh bridging traditional capital and bringing that on chain. That is where the market is headed. Uh, that is what we need uh for markets to scale that last missing piece of financial um institutional capital.

SPEAKER_03 10:59

And so now that we have an understanding of how this market is going to go from $2.5 trillion to north of $25 trillion, according to Brad Garlinghouse, I wanted to reference what we're looking at on this XRP price chart in particular. Now, since XRP first started trading in August of 2013, every major high and every major low has hit exactly 1,618 days apart, the famous golden Fibonacci ratio. Now, the next one lands on November 16th, 2026, which just happens to be Ripple CTO Joel Cat's birthday, I should say former CTO. That alignment screams precision as the chart shows a massive breakout pointing straight up towards this date. And we're looking at an XRP cycle that could even potentially flip Bitcoin if this prediction comes to fruition. So you guys can see it right here. It only takes a single headline and a single narrative to completely change the momentum of the market. And if you look at the XRP price chart, November 16th, 2026, that could be a day all of our listeners need to keep an eye on. But if you enjoyed this content, smash that like button, subscribe to the channel, and we'll see you all in the next one. So if you're looking to implement the same strategies that we do here on Good Evening Crypto, I would encourage all of our listeners to click on the iTrust Capital link below and sign up to take advantage of tax-free crypto gains. Now that's not the best part. By leveraging the iTrust link below, you're gonna get a hundred dollar free sign up bonus to start funding your iTrust Capital account. This is gonna give our listeners access to crypto assets in a Roth IRA product, allowing them to compound those gains tax free until they're 59 years old and held these funds for five years. So a really unique advantage. So if you're excited about the future of digital assets, I would encourage everybody to sign up for iTrust Capital so you can take advantage of those compounding gains tax free.