Ripple XRP: The Institutional Endgame is HERE 🚀

Added: 2026-05-22

[00:00:00]They told us XRP was dead. That Ripple is going to be shut out and Wall Street that they would never touch this stuff.

[00:00:06]Now, look what's really happening here.

[00:00:07]The same system that dragged us into this whole SEC war, it's quietly opening the back door. And for those of us that stayed through the trenches, we know what we're looking at here. This isn't some hype, some headline. This is the plumbing that's being installed for the financial system of the future. Ripple Prime, it just plugged into the EDX markets. This is the institutional exchange backed by real heavyweights, Citadel, Fidelity, Charles Schwab.

[00:00:35]That's the part most people miss here.

[00:00:37]EDX is not built for the crypto tourists. It's built for serious money, trading, custody, clearing, collateral, all separated in a way that Wall Street already understands. XRP, this is the new liquidity route into the machine here. Ripple Prime, that's the access layer. EDX is the Wall Street venue that your major institutions are going to leverage here. Now, meanwhile, JP Morgan, they're saying that, you know, stablecoins have a huge edge over tokenized money market funds. And why?

[00:01:10]Because of payments. Liquidity movements matter more than yield at this point in time here.

[00:01:16]But, there's a bigger story here, DTCC.

[00:01:19]We're looking at 150 trillion in US equities and assets moving to digital asset infrastructure. Ripple's going to be part of that. That's going to be a huge project. So, tonight, we're we're following the trail that they don't want retail looking at, EDX, DTCC, JP Morgan, Ripple Prime, RUSD, and of course, XRP.

[00:01:40]Institutions, they're not laughing any longer. They're positioning. And this is really big stuff here. Now, we see right here, Wall Street just opened a new route into XRP. Ripple Prime, as I stated, integrated with EDX markets, the institutional crypto exchange, you know, real real heavyweights here. Citadel, Fidelity, Charles Schwab. This This is about using this technology. EDX gives institutions the familiar, you know, venue for digital assets built around separating trading, custody, clearing.

[00:02:12]This is what you have to have. If you are Citadel, if you are Fidelity, you can't have all this stuff mixing. That's what we saw with FTX, right? That was a big part of, you know, security. The downfall of that exchange was the fact that they kind of waffled everything together. It can't be like that. You have to have this type of setup. This means large funds, brokers, institutional clients can access XRP liquidity through more traditional prime brokerage frameworks. This is going to be huge. Now, great post here by Chad.

[00:02:42]He says, "There's going to be this collaboration of many firms, one of which will be Ripple Prime." Understand this. This DTCC buildout is so massive.

[00:02:52]The amount you see on on screen there, the amount that's routed through DTCC annually, uh, you know, this is going to take more than just Ripple, more than just Canton. This is going to be a huge project. But, we know it's happening. We heard from the SEC chair that they want to take everything on chain on chain. Every stock, every bond, you name it. Anything that trades, they want it on the blockchain. Also, Larry Fink, they want to use ETFs as a technology, and blockchain is really how they're going to do that. Now, Ripple Prime, it's going to settle across the XRP ledger through DTCC.

[00:03:27]DTCC's tokenization engine here. This is a speculation, as Chad says here. This is happening, and it's happening at scale later this year. You want to talk about big. Now, Chad went on further to say, "Mike Higgins of Ripple has confirmed that Ripple Prime is connected to both DTCC and EDX for settlement, clearing, institutional tokenization of assets, which is going to be the big driver of blockchain adoption. Every single, you know, major institution, financial financial heavyweight out there, they want to tokenize assets.

[00:04:01]They understand is we go broad on a global scale and also around the clock trading. It's massive. July begins limited trading leading out the full-scale production in October. That's what you want to keep your eye on right there. And again, Ripple XRP ledger, this is one piece of the puzzle, but it's a big one. And they going to capture a lot of value, I think.

[00:04:21]We see Harvard just exited their Ethereum investment in full bringing it down to zero. Harvard Management Company reportedly sold its entire Ethereum ETF position after holding it for just one quarter. Gone 87 million in BlackRock's Ethereum ETF here. They didn't exit their Bitcoin, they trimmed it a little bit.

[00:04:42]You know, we're going to go over some more stories. People are losing their minds over Ethereum and understandable, it's not doing well. But, you know, if there ever was a bottom story here, bottom signal, this may be it. We're going to go through a couple of these types of stories, but people are getting livid with the ETH token.

[00:05:00]Mark Cuban, this was a weird one. He says he claims that Bitcoin failed. It lost the plot. Now, Bitcoin's a technology, it's a blockchain, it doesn't have a plot, it doesn't have It's not possible for it to lose the plot, but he expected Bitcoin to act as a short-term volatility hedge like gold.

[00:05:18]So, he's looking at when the Iran war broke out and the performance of Bitcoin and you know, gold worked as his hedge, but Bitcoin did not. That's a Mark failure. That's not the way it has ever worked. Maybe someday it will, but Bitcoin and crypto at large has always acted as a long-term debasement hedge.

[00:05:36]We know they're going to keep printing, your value you're going to lose over the long horizon if you hold it in dollars or yuan or yen. And but crypto's not like that. Limited supply, it goes up in value over the long horizon. But, because he expected something contrarian to the way this asset acts today, somehow that's a failure the asset class. Oh, heck no. This guy is I don't know what he's talking about. How I ask you this, most people on this channel are long-term crypto investors. Have you ever in your life heard a war broke out or there's been a financial disaster or the stock market is crashing and went, "Yes, this is our moment. Crypto is going to act as this hedge volatility hedge." No, it never happens like that.

[00:06:19]As soon as you hear that, everyone panics and the price of crypto actually usually has further downside than other assets. That's just the way this works.

[00:06:29]What Mark expected doesn't really matter. And again, maybe in the future, as these things get more liquid, more global, more accepted, maybe they will work more like gold. But, that's a talking point. That's not the reality of today. But, what we do know is over over the long horizon, these assets go up in value faster than S&P 500, real estate, things of this nature. That's what matters, not if it reacts as Mark Cuban expects. And again, it never reacts like that. That's what's really crazy. Now, Crypto Sensei great post here. JP Morgan says stablecoins still have the edge over tokenized money market funds. The big thing, stablecoins remain dominant for blockchain payments. Tokenized money market funds are growing, but less flexible. Banks keep pushing deeper into tokenized financial infrastructure and I I think both are just different tools, right? Like, you're holding in a money market, you're holding in some sort of on-chain bond because you want to earn yield and you want your money to sit there. If you're going to put it in motion, well, a stablecoin is better. A major trend emerging right now, stablecoins are increasingly being viewed as financial rails, not just crypto trading tools. Originally, you didn't think about using a stablecoin for a payment, you just used it you want to trade out of a out of a crypto asset that holds stable value? You transfer to a stable coin and just sat there until you were ready to jump back in the market. Uh you know, this is becoming an actual financial tool now as we go forward. Bank XRP Trump media proposed Truth Social crypto blue chip ETF which included Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Solana, and Crow has reportedly been withdrawn.

[00:08:05]The official report states they no longer intend to pursue this offering at this time. To me, this is all about the ethics component of the new crypto legislation that's coming up here. They don't want uh presidents, senators, congress people profiteering off of this technology. Now, we know they will. They just can't be so blatant about it, to be honest with you. So, I think that's what we're seeing here and it's probably not a bad thing. I don't mind it the president pulls back a little bit from actively launching meme coins and ETFs and things of this nature. I think the space will be better off here. Now, we see this. Ethereum going to zero. And then uh follow up. I think it's going to go to 1,000 in the next year or so. So fair, if you're in a coma for the next 10 years, you want to put your money in anything over Ethereum. We also see this. This is from the Bankless uh podcast, David Hoffman. I consistently support the Ethereum network. ETH the asset is increasingly questionable. Uh you know, maybe I'm just contrarian and I just go that direction a lot of times, but this makes me think that this may be the best time. The best time to buy Ethereum and maybe we're getting ready to go on a crypto run as everyone's capitulating, everyone's panicking here. Ethereum's going to be fine. XRP's going to be fine. Uh you know, Mark Cuban, maybe uh you know, he dreamed up a scenario where crypto should work in a certain way and it didn't.

[00:09:30]Bitcoin's going to be fine, people. Uh you know, I think this might be the time when we actually start to rebuild, when everyone's throwing in their cards, they're freaking out, it's not playing out the way they thought, as it never does, this space always throws a a curveball at us, this may be our moment.

[00:09:46]We'll see it play out. Again, I'm not worried at all. Any of the major ones, they've been around so long, there's so much adoption going on, there's so much to be bullish about. Uh you know, just because we haven't had it yet, it's coming, and it's going to be coming quick here. Uh it's funny, this this uh really Eth cheerleader here Bankless, and I love their podcast by the way, but you know, here I am an XRP YouTuber, I have more faith in Ethereum than some of these long-term, you know, really big-time Ethereum cheer- cheerleaders.

[00:10:16]It'll be absolutely fine. But let me know what you think down below. Are these the end times for the Ethereum token? Cuz I sure don't see it. As always, please like. Please subscribe.

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