$589 XRP WAS EXPECTED IN 2020! - IS THIS FINANCIAL FREEDOM? - RIPPLE TRUMP TIES - $1000 BEFORE 2030?

Added: 2026-05-26

[00:00:00]Hello everyone and welcome back to the Common Sense Crypto Channel. As with you always, this is Rich doing another video today on XRP.

[00:00:12]So, I hope you're all having a wonderful day today wherever you are in this great great world. We're going to talk about XRP and I got to start with this. I want to be rich, I'll admit it, but not for a Rolex or a Lamborghini. I want to be rich so I can go to the gym at 3:00 p.m.

[00:00:33]on a Tuesday, order dinner without looking at the prices, make sure my family never worries about money, travel freely and see the world. That's my idea of rich. That's my idea of financial freedom. And if you hold XRP long enough, you can achieve this. But again, you need to get to have a game plan to go with your XRP holdings. I mean, if you're planning on selling, put the money to work for you. You have to.

[00:01:08]Otherwise, you'll blow through it and end up back here. If you plan to stay invested, then you got to look at putting your crypto to work for you. So, you could go do all the things you ever wanted to do. You have to get that passive income.

[00:01:24]Everybody thinks that you can't build off of any size bag when it comes to XRP. It doesn't matter how much you're holding. It matters how long you can hold it and it matters what you do with it along the way. Now, when it comes to earning off of your XRP, I know a lot of people are still very worried about that because there's always risk that comes with it. People don't want to lose even one of their XRP and I get that. And that's why I said, "If you don't trust the options that are out there right now, I think better options will still come come up later.

[00:02:06]Once that institutional adoption happens, after regulations are put in place first."

[00:02:13]And this is how long we've been waiting for 589.

[00:02:18]XRP will be $589 plus in 2020. Otherwise, this account is forever deleted. Enjoy the show. Good afternoon, and good night. That was back in March of 2020.

[00:02:34]That was before the Ripple vs. SEC case, and everybody was expecting XRP to blast off at some point.

[00:02:45]Back then though, most people were predicting a $10 XRP. Now, a lot has happened since 2020.

[00:02:54]Things came together like never before, and a lot of that was because of the Ripple vs. SEC case. It pushed Ripple offshore. They went on a building spree all around the world, outside the United States. And that path, what Ripple did along that time frame, that built so much utility for XRP to happen later.

[00:03:21]And that's what I think is really going to get us to that 589 price point at some point.

[00:03:29]CNBC says XRP is the hottest crypto trade of this year. When CNBC starts talking like this again, the top may be coming in, or you're too late to XRP. Hottest crypto trade of the year is not Bitcoin, it is not ether, it is XRP, the coin formerly known as Ripple. Soared more than 20% this year, becoming the third largest cryptocurrency out there, and there's big money behind this trade.

[00:03:58]And that was when we seen that slight breakout that we've seen up to this point where XRP was above $3 again.

[00:04:08]Just wait until it goes into price discovery. I'm telling you, it's going to be all over the mainstream media news. Wait until the institutional money flows into this cryptocurrency, and wait until all that adoption of this cryptocurrency happens. I'm telling you, you are very lucky to be holding XRP ahead of the institutions.

[00:04:36]All of Ripple's ties to the Trump administration, this comes from Smoke. And you see, Ripple is among the corporate donors backing Trump's $300 million golden ballroom in the East wing of the White House. Ripple donated 4.9 million worth of its cryptocurrency XRP to Trump inaugural fund. Ripple chief legal officer Stuart Alderoty donated $300,000 in crypto to back Trump for president. Ripple hired Trump ally Brian Ballard to lobby the administration on crypto issues. Trump chief of staff Susie Wiles is a former lobbyist with Ballard's firm. Ripple also retains Reince Priebus as a lobbyist, Trump's chief of staff during his first term as president. If you went back to Trump's first term, there was a lot of ties there to Ripple as well. Remember, Ripple was meeting with Mnuchin back then, and Jared Kushner played a part also. They were talking about the digital dollar back in 2019.

[00:05:52]They were even talking about paying out stimulus in digital dollars also.

[00:05:58]Now, I believe Ripple is being fully integrated in the United States. And of course, this is documented right here.

[00:06:08]But you see all the ties to this administration. You see what Ripple has done in Washington up to this point. But just wait until the IMF becomes a holder of XRP.

[00:06:22]There's two votes. Let me try. Do you see IMF holding crypto assets in the future?

[00:06:28]Oh, They're over here. That's easier.

[00:06:35]You want to take one?

[00:06:36]Go for it.

[00:06:37]The first one's for you.

[00:06:39]IMF, do you see IMF holding crypto assets in the future? I did not put that up there.

[00:06:48]Remember I'm from the legal department.

[00:06:50]I'm supposed to be very conservative about these things.

[00:06:53]Um I I don't want to go into great details about the IMF.

[00:07:00]>> take what the IMF is going to do.

[00:07:02]I think we stunned Ross into silence with that one.

[00:07:05]And that was back in 2018.

[00:07:09]And Brad was so confident even back then. He knew the IMF would eventually be holding XRP. And even a lot of those people that tell you that the price of XRP is going to be a set price, they always cite the IMF as one of the organizations that are going to be part of setting the price of XRP.

[00:07:35]But it's going to go beyond just the IMF. It's going to be the World Bank.

[00:07:41]It's going to be the ECB. Central banks all around the world will be holding this cryptocurrency.

[00:07:49]Because it's going to be utilized as the world's bridge currency.

[00:07:55]Take a listen to the United Nations talk about XRP and XLM. the all of the existing networks.

[00:08:04]And you know, this is kind of what it would look like. It's It's not a new system, but it it connects existing systems.

[00:08:12]So, no matter whether it is incumbents like Swift, Visa, MasterCard, or some of the newer networks like Ripple, Stellar, Celo, a payment should be able to go from one to another.

[00:08:26]So, we see this happening in three phases.

[00:08:30]The first is account addressing.

[00:08:33]So, this is a global directory that would allow you to address a payment in the same way you have an an email address.

[00:08:44]The second is tokenized compliance, reducing the um of or rather finding efficiencies in compliance to reduce the cost.

[00:08:54]And the third is real-time settlement of funds.

[00:08:58]So, take notice. They pointed out three phases. Phase one, account addressing.

[00:09:03]Make sure that they have accounts. Then tokenize compliance. Then instant clearing and settlement. So, with the rise of tokenization happening, the rise of XRP will be happening. Because XRP will be utilized for settlement. It would be utilized to move tokenized assets from point A to point B. And yet people still don't believe this can happen. Take a listen to this.

[00:09:35]>> You guys really think XRP's going over $10?

[00:09:39]Oh, definitely. For sure.

[00:09:41]Dude, that's just not going to happen.

[00:09:43]Remember the Remember the XRP to what was it? $589?

[00:09:46]>> $589. Was it $589 or $500? No, I think yeah, I think it could go over a thousand definitely in the next four to five years. But wouldn't that like put it above the the market cap of Yeah, it would. But you know, you look at Bitcoin, right? You look at Bitcoin.

[00:10:02]I mean, why is Bitcoin valued more than, you know, most major companies out there when Bitcoin doesn't do anything? I don't think, you know, when you look at crypto and you look at market caps, there isn't really like a, you know, there isn't really a ceiling to be honest.

[00:10:15]You know what? XRP would be 50 to a hundred trillion dollar market cap at a thousand in in that range?

[00:10:22]>> That'd be what? 25 to 50 X?

[00:10:26]Let's book 2030 on the calendar and then let's let's rethink and look at the charts.

[00:10:31]Okay. And so, should we put a bet on it then it as well?

[00:10:34]Yeah, we can. I mean, we'll we'll we'll think about a a good way to structure the bet. Yeah, we can put the money in escrow or something. So, uh I'm just giving you some man.

[00:10:42]I thought that was a great clip back when it first dropped because the first thing they do is point at the market cap. I can't believe we're in 2026 and people are still looking at market cap when it comes to a utility-driven cryptocurrency.

[00:11:03]What's the market cap of the US dollar?

[00:11:06]We're holding the world's bridge currency. We're holding what they're going to be moving US digital dollars from the US in XRP.

[00:11:16]It could come out as the digital euro.

[00:11:19]It could come out as any other currency.

[00:11:22]Same thing is going to happen within the BRICS. XRP would work like a trust layer. You go from China into XRP, it comes out in India. It comes out in Brazil.

[00:11:35]This is the future. The IMF talked about this years ago with XRP being looked at as an eSDR.

[00:11:45]The BIS, they wrote white papers around this cryptocurrency pointing at it as being utilized within massive liquidity pools where a country where a handful of countries can have XRP sitting in the middle and you utilizing it for its on-demand liquidity. And yet people still don't believe it could break $10. Just wait until supply and demand shows up later this year. It is going to be insane to watch that happen because all the naysayers, they're going to disappear.

[00:12:21]You will never hear from them again.

[00:12:24]And we are already on the path to scarcity for XRP. So many people don't even realize that that can still happen.

[00:12:34]The ETFs, they're going to see FOMO, retail FOMO, institutional FOMO, all colliding together the second this cryptocurrency breaks out. I'm telling you, it is going to be a crazy time later in 2026 cuz that is going to be coinciding with the rise of tokenization.

[00:12:57]And then beyond that, that all those institutions, I'm telling you, they're going to be opening up so many different ways to earn off of XRP at the same time. It is going to be a crazy time ahead. Now, if I had to say XRP would reach $1,000 by 2030, I think it's going to happen in 2028. I really do believe that because 2027 is going to be the year that the actual crisis could show up at the banking level. Liquidity crisis shows up. Now they have to solve that liquidity crisis.

[00:13:34]Then you see even a bigger push into stablecoins all throughout the the world. I mean country after country, they're already looking to launch their own stablecoin.

[00:13:47]Banks are launching their own stablecoin. All these stablecoins are still going to need a bridge asset. We are holding that bridge. I stress that so much because everybody thinks rUSD is taking away from XRP. rUSD is adding even more utility for XRP.

[00:14:12]But like I always tell you, until it happens, stay patient, stay positive, and let's get rich together. With that said, I'm going to wrap up this video. I want to thank you all for watching. I appreciate all of you. I'll see you in the next one. Have a great night.