THE XRP RESET JUST GOT ANNOUNCED (TOM LEE / JP MORGAN CHASE)

Added: 2026-05-26

[00:00:00]Franklin Templeton, one of the largest asset managers on the planet, they're about to do something major with Ripple and XRP. Mark my words on this. Look, this is an asset giant who's overseeing one and a half trillion dollars. They just told the world they've been working with Ripple for a long time. Not a pilot program, not some proof of concept, a long time. And the asset class that they're targeting together, the entire traditional financial market. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? I think you are. We're talking over 100 trillion dollars. No, you didn't hear that wrong, folks. 100 trillion dollars. That isn't hype, that is a number, a very large number. And if XRP is the settlement layer for even a fraction of that, you need to understand what's being built right now because it is moving a lot faster than most people realize. Welcome back to the greatest show on YouTube. That's right, you're right here. This is the Rip Show. Look, if you're new here, let me just be serious with you for 1 second. This is the channel where we track these real institutional stories behind XRP and behind Ripple. We look at the payment infrastructure, the legislation, the tokenization deals, and we translate it all into plain English so you actually understand what's happening and why it matters. No moon talk, no hype, no BS, just the facts and what it means. And today's episode is generally one of the most significant videos that I've probably put together in a very long time because we have multiple stories all converging in the same week. And when I line them up side by side and I show you everything, you're going to be blown away. Now, before we get into it, look, do me one quick favor. Hit that like button, man. It really helps me out. It's free and it tells YouTube we need to keep pushing this out because we need to get ripped to 100,000 subscribers. That's right. So, let's start with the big picture. Why wouldn't we? Let's start with the regulatory backdrop because everything else we're going to talk about today, this is the foundation. And the foundation, it has fundamentally changed over the last 2 years. The President of the United States pro-crypto. The SEC, you know, the same agency that sued Ripple and spent years trying to choke this industry out. Yeah, they're now pro-crypto. The Federal Reserve, which has been historically one of the most resistant institutions to the digital asset innovation, they're becoming pro-crypto. And the Clarity Act, which would give this industry the clear legal framework that we've needed for the past decade, it is finally moving through Congress. Now, I want you to think about all that for a second because if you've been in this space 10 years, 5 years, a year, or a month, you know that even or I should say that that you even, but I should say that we've dreamed of this scenario. This is the best-case situation, the best-case scenario that we could have ever hoped for. It's like fantasy and it's all coming together.

[00:03:22]Think about it. The idea that the SEC, the Fed, the White House, and Congress would all be moving in the same exact direction at the same time towards embracing digital assets, cryptocurrency, blockchain, whatever buzzword you want to throw on it, that would have seemed almost impossible.

[00:03:39]Think about who used to be the in in that leadership role, who did nothing for crypto. Joe Biden, nothing. Jay Clayton, nothing. Jerome Powell, nothing. Gary Gensler, nothing. Now, look, we got President Trump, we got Kevin Wash, right? We got Gary Gary uh what the what the hell is his name? Not Gensler. Not Gary Pollackins. They're all pro-crypto and they're all about moving the United States in the correct direction. But here's the thing, this isn't a coincidence. Oh no, it's not.

[00:04:13]This isn't four separate things happening by accident at the same moment. This is a coordinated shift, a policy realignment. Stop. If you hold Zeback, you need to see this right now.

[00:04:27]Kanjam, they just dropped a limited edition Zeback cold wallet. And when they're gone, they're gone. They're gone forever. They're not making any more.

[00:04:37]This isn't some exchange. This is your keys, your crypto, a card you tap to your phone and you own it. Nobody can touch it. 6 million wallets sold, zero hacks, zero. The Zeback community, I know you're loud. I know you've been waiting for something like this and it just dropped. Links down below. The second these sell out and trust me, they will, this video, it means nothing. And when you combine that with the fact that the largest financial institutions in the world are simultaneously making major moves into tokenization and crypto infrastructure, you start to see what this actually is. It's deliberate. It's a structured transition of the global financial system. As some like to call it, a reset. And it's happening right now in real time, whether or not mainstream is paying attention or not. I mean, Fox Business, they just started their own crypto segment and crypto show. Which leads us to this. Let's talk macro real quick because the regulatory shift, it doesn't exist in a vacuum. It exists inside a specific economic environment. And that environment, it's sending some mixed signals right now.

[00:05:53]And we need to understand them. The Fed is about to inject over 6 and 1/2 billion dollars into the economy next week. 6 and 1/2 billion. That is a significant liquidity injection. And on the surface, people are like, that sounds bullish for risk assets. More money in the system generally means that capital's going to have to go somewhere, right? And assets like crypto have historically benefited from this exact kind of environment. But let me just tell you where this actually gets complicated. And it's important for me to be honest about this rather than just start cherry-picking bullish data points, okay? The counter signal on the Fed, we're going to talk about that in a second. But there's another story, another Fed story this week that cuts in the opposite direction. And you got to see both sides here to understand it, right? What we can say right now about this liquidity injection is that it reflects the Fed's ongoing effort to manage your financial conditions. They are still actively managing the plumbing of the financial system. We all know that. And in that environment, regardless of what the market does short-term, the long-term question of what the global settlement layer looks like, it becomes even more relevant.

[00:07:07]Why? Simple. Because every dollar that moves through the financial system, it eventually has to settle somewhere, now, doesn't it? And that somewhere is the big question that Ripple and its institutional partners are positioning to answer. This is the one, right here.

[00:07:25]This is the story of the week. And we're going to listen to a video clip in 2 seconds here. Franklin Templeton, they already have an XRP ETF. They've already attended Ripple Swell and talked about everything they're doing with Ripple, the XRP ledger. We know all that good stuff, okay? They've been working together for a very long time. And the scope of what they're working on together, it's staggering here. We're talking about the tokenization of the traditional financial markets. We're talking about a market that exceeds $100 trillion in total size. Stocks, bonds, money market, real estate, commodities, the list goes on. The entire infrastructure of global finance is moving on to blockchain rails. And the specific example they're working on right now is tokenized money market funds using, drum roll, please, RLYUSD. Now, let me make sure you understand what that means, cuz I already see people out there saying, "They're using the freaking stable coin.

[00:08:20]XRP never gets used. Screw Ripple."

[00:08:23]Relax. If RLYUSD on the XRP ledger is being used, XRP gets used, full stop.

[00:08:31]You can have these people who want to debate this and try to fight it all the time. They can't. The XRP ledger uses XRP. There's no way around that. No way around that, folks. Now, yeah, look, okay, so it's just being used for gas fees. It's a tiny fraction. Think about it though. Think about it. When we start talking about moving value between different currencies and they're already using the technology, they're going to use XRP, folks. You need to get them to use the network before you can show them the benefits of everything on the network. Are you with me? That's the holy grail. Ripple has told them that themselves. Don't believe me? Go look up Dilip Rao, which moves us over to this.

[00:09:14]Because just as your money market fund story wasn't enough, Franklin Templeton, they just went even further this week.

[00:09:20]They are acquiring a crypto firm.

[00:09:23]Specifically, hear me out on this, to go after the tokenization of the global equity market. We're talking $127 trillion right here in the equity market. We're talking every publicly traded stock on every exchange on the freaking planet. Yeah, they're not running a small pilot here everyone.

[00:09:43]They are acquiring the expertise that they need to move at scale in this space. Now, when a firm like the size of Franklin Templeton makes an acquisition, it means they have made a strategic decision at the highest level about where the future of their business is going. Are they acquiring or Ripple? No, they're not going to buy Ripple, but what they're going to do is they're going to acquire a team who understands blockchain, who understands tokenization, that is already working with Ripple and using the ledger, and then this partnership is going to grow and get even bigger. Listen, that, you know, trusted agent as they navigate into this this new world. This really exciting new world, right? We're about to tokenize the 127 trillion-dollar equity market cap. You know, the world is going in that direction. How's that going to work? How are you going to pay for that stuff? What are the rails that they're going to live on? What are the new opportunities that you're going to see? And so, you know, we've been in the space for a long time. We've been immersed in this in crypto up to our eyeballs for for years and years and years. And so, hopefully we can lend our expertise, you know, not only our expertise in crypto, but our our expertise in in in traditional markets.

[00:10:57]Pretty much everyone on the team has some kind of background in traditional markets as well. And so, I think the goal is to kind of be that Rosetta Stone, uh be able to translate and be able to explain and and and make it easy. Now, here's the question that every XRP holder should be sitting with.

[00:11:12]When 127 trillion in equities needs blockchain rails, when those assets need to settle, when they need to move, and be exchanged across borders in real time, what is the settlement infrastructure that can handle that? I dare you to say Bitcoin. Go on. I dare you to say Ethereum. You already know the answer. That's exactly what the ledger was built for. Winklevoss twins know this. Why do you think they're working so closely with Ripple? Folks, and then Tom Lee says a bear market, it's coming later this year. What do you think, everyone? Are you a bear or are you a bull? Do you think we're going to correct or do you think like other people out there that the local bottom is in? Listen to Tommy Boy Lee. I'm I I want to make sure I heard you right. Are you calling for a rolling bear market in mag seven names cuz Is that what you're looking for? You look for these stocks to become weaker at some point and dramatically so at some point this year.

[00:12:08]Is that Is that what I heard you say?

[00:12:09]>> No, to clarify, I think that I think we've already had a bear market in mag seven and software. I think there is going to be a bear market in other stocks later this year. Yes, but I think it's going to spare the mag and software. So, it's going to be names that either they're got lofty or are going to be affected by the fact that there is a lot of supply of new stock later this year or the companies that are going to get hit by the shortage in petroleum products. So, I think there's reasons that we could have headwinds later this year. Are you talking about like semiconductor stocks? Yeah, semis may become a bubble. They're They to me they don't seem like a bubble yet. You know, when Nvidia is trading at 19 times earnings, I think it's still a good risk reward, but I think that there are parts of that ecosystem that have become quite expensive. Now, let's be honest about this. Tom Lee is like the Jim Cramer of crypto. Is he right? I don't know. Is he wrong? I don't know. We won't know until this plays out. But let's talk about a bear market just real quick. What is a bear market? A bear market is potentially anywhere from like a 30 to 50 60% downside move, right? We've seen them before. We've lived through them.

[00:13:15]They're brutal. They're not anything fun. No one ever cheered about a bear market, right? Is it going to happen? It could. It could. I personally believe and I've been talking about this and you know my plan, I've been stacking stables. I believe Bitcoin's going to 40 to 50,000 dollars in Q3, Q4. It's almost Q3. Am I going to be right or am I going to come on here and tell everyone I was wrong? Cuz if I was wrong, I'll be the first one to admit it. I've been wrong before, I'll be wrong again. No one's ever 100% right. I'm just a man and I can admit it unlike these other people who spin and twist everything and delete their tweets. I don't play that game.

[00:13:49]Not the game for me, right? I share my knowledge, my expertise, what I have learned over my 10 years in crypto. If I get it right, hey, that's great. Good for me and everyone who followed me. If I make a bad call, if I get something wrong, it happens. That's the world we live in. I do see Bitcoin still at this point correcting 40 to 50,000 and I have openly said it. What happens to altcoins? When Bitcoin crashes, do we see the money rotate from Bitcoin and into alts? That would give us an alt season, something we haven't seen really since 2020. That's what I'm paying attention to. Bitcoin now, altcoins still got a question mark. Let's see where we go, but I'm going to leave it right there. Look, I hope you enjoyed.

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