XRP: BRAD SPEAKS TRILLIONS for XRP HOLDERS!!!

Hinzugefügt: 2026-05-07

[00:00:00]Everybody waking up bullish pumping.

[00:00:03]That's what I'm talking about. And I got something great. If you're holding XRP, if you're bullish, crypto, Ripple, Brad Garlinghouse, this happened yesterday.

[00:00:12]Enjoy. The conversation is lit. What can I say, guys? I'm I'm really happy that we're in the industry so early. Enjoy.

[00:00:20]Drop a like, subscribe, leave us a comment. Sign up. 3,000 XRP, guys. First link down below with BTCC. Send it. Uh Tom, you and I are in violent agreement on this. You know, uh in January, I tweeted out something to the effect of, you know, perfection is the enemy of progress. I agree with you. Do I think the Clarity Act as drafted is it's moved a little bit since January, but I do I think it's perfect? Hell no. Uh I I challenge you to show me any piece of legislation that we would call perfect.

[00:00:50]And there's trade-offs and uh compromises, but I do think clarity is better than chaos. And we have been living particularly with a I think a not well-intended SEC under Gary Gendler.

[00:01:04]We've been living with chaos where it's just you know uh regulation through enforcement and you didn't know where they were going to focus their enforcement battle. And as you already pointed out taking on the federal government, you have an unlimited budget of the federal government to come after you and a lot of players other than Ripple would have folded. In fact, a story that I don't think is well told is one of the key strategic mistakes the SEC made was picking on Ripple because we were strong enough to stand up to them. It still took some to do that. But, you know, I think uh they they made a bad strategic decision as opposed to building more case law going after weaker players and getting them to fold capitulate. So Brad, you have built a company that's very innovative and growthy and you've used uh inorganic growth uh so-called inorganic growth M&A to to to build your portfolio. We too in our own smaller more more humble way but exciting way.

[00:02:03]>> But it's not smaller the the largest digital asset acquisition ever is the deal you announced overnight.

[00:02:09]>> That one was bigger. That was bigger.

[00:02:11][laughter] Yeah. Um the uh thanks for thanks for that.

[00:02:13]>> That's why I feel like I should be interviewing you today. Like this is your day.

[00:02:16]>> No, I appre I appreciate it. I appreciate it. Um so uh and I've I've loved your acquisition strategy. I'll just say it unabashed in part because I know the protagonist. I I know you and respect you and consider you a friend, but so to Mark Ash of Ripple Prime. So to Renat Veriki, who's >> back in the day one of my best friends who are the most annoying people in the world to me. We grew we grew up together. Um, but I I love it. Can Can you just give us I have a couple particular questions. Can you give us a high level? How's the acquisition strategy doing for you?

[00:02:47]>> Yeah, look, I I think Ripple and I would say now Bullish has taken a bit of a contrarian view relative to some crypto companies in their acquisition strategy.

[00:02:55]And I think a lot of crypto companies are buying other crypto companies and saying intraechamber.

[00:03:00]And I think what I've seen Bullish do and certainly what Ripple has done is say we're going to go outside the echo chamber and accelerate bringing those non digital asset native companies on chain. And as as you know well and I'll I'll use uh Ripple Treasury, formerly G Treasury as the primary example here.

[00:03:18]They processed or orchestrated about $13 trillion of payments last year.

[00:03:24]>> 13 trillion. I had to askillion. I want to make sure I heard that right. It's not really 13 13 trillion of payments.

[00:03:32]>> Now, what's interesting to me isn't just it's a massive number and that's the opportunity. It's that 0% of those payments went through a stable coin or through a digital asset last year. The opportunity is bringing that over time.

[00:03:43]And again, the last thing we want to do is for those customers, the American Airlines of the world, I mean, these are big, ranging from Fortune50 to, you know, midsize companies who are benefiting from a dashboard to manage their liquidity, to manage all of the interactions with bank accounts around the world. That's a great business that's growing, but it is bringing them along the journey gently. So, okay, you're making a your American Airlines making a fuel payment into the Peruvian Soul. Okay, today that's going to take you four days and it's going to cost you this much because there's only one correspondent bank that'll enable that.

[00:04:16]Tomorrow it's like, oh, we could just in a UI in the interface of G Treasury, now Ripple Treasury presenting, hey, we can do that in real time at this cost and having a treasurer who's managing that payment make that trade-off. And it it's going to be crawl then walk and then run. And those 13 trillion, you know, I'll go out on a limb and say five years from now, you know, I I'll say 30% of that in five years will be onchain in some way. And I think that is the opportunity. I think it's also the opportunity equinity. Like I I think the the powerfulness of like accelerating adoption by buying the largest I think transfer agent out there in terms of real world assets, bringing things on chain, I think it's profound. It's uh it's exactly so what what Brad's talking about is we we for the any of you who haven't seen it, we announced we're acquiring this business Aquinity this morning for 4 uh4.2 billion and it's it's exactly as Brad described. It takes me back when when I was a a young man. I got >> Welcome back to Coindesk Live from Consensus Miami.

[00:05:19]>> This is you know what's going on. I mean conversations happen. Brad was also here talking. I think they cut it out because they have a lot more people than guest.

[00:05:28]Yes, there's a lot going on in CoinDesk, right? But here Brad was talking if I can find it. It was somewhere here. I think in the 17 minutes somewhere here he came in. Let me see. Well, oh yeah, Arthur Hayes was there. There were a lot of people guys who were just talking crypto. Oh, 117. I remember here. Let me see because I saw there you go. There's there's he. So there he is. Let's go back.

[00:06:02]>> Growth opportunity is so big. We're not thinking about AI as a tool to reduce headcount. We're thinking about it as an unlock and enabler to go after more products, more customers faster. And I think we're at a stage of the crypto market that is just an accelerant, not a hey, we can save money over here. I mean, if you're a public company, maybe you have some different levers you got to think about. Uh, Ripple has the advantage of being private.

[00:06:26]>> Well, it's not only Brian Armstrong who said that. I think we've heard that from the CEOs kind of pretty much across the board. What do you cover story?

[00:06:33]>> What do you think's going to I mean, what do you think's going to happen given your perspective? Right. Companies are laying off because they feel like AI is going to um improve productivity, allow them to reduce headcount. Do you think they're going to have to make a reversal sometime in the future?

[00:06:47]>> I don't know if they'll make a reversal.

[00:06:48]I just think that some of these I I I literally think it's a bit of a travesty for AI and it's like painting AI as the boogeyman. This is bad. And it's like every time we've seen new technologies come along, I just heard an interesting stat actually. When the automated teller machine, you may be too young for this.

[00:07:05]When the automated teller machine came out, people said bank tellers are going to lose all their lose their jobs. 10 years later, there was twice as many bank tellers. M >> and what the ATM allowed them to do is do more interesting things and cross-ell other products. And so I like I view AI as an unlock and I think the companies that are hanging frankly maybe sometimes bad management on a hey this is because of AI I think it's unfortunate. AI is an unlock for a growth industry like digital assets like blockchain infrastructure. It's an unlock to accelerate what we're doing to uh you know get more adoption faster. And I'm sure even what we've seen with bullish equinity, what Ripple's doing around Ripple Treasury, bringing old school traditional finance, >> billions and trillions of dollars.

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