The XRP Endgame/Leak & The Banks Are Ready For Ripple

Added: 2026-05-05

[00:00:02]Hey everybody, this is the digital asset investor and I think a lot of people have forgotten or discarded what I would call Trump's XRP leak. This was back from his truth social when he tweeted about the crypto strategic reserve and the first uh digital asset he named was XRP. And I don't know if you remember, but the way it was reacted to, everybody freaked out. The Bitcoin people freaked out. You remember this break? Breaking. A lobbyist just tried to slip XRP into Trump's crypto strategic reserve list and all hell broke loose. This wasn't just a bad tweet. It was a glimpse behind the curtain and it tells us everything. In March, Trump posted about Federal Crypto Reserve including XRP, Salana, Cardano, no Bitcoin, no ETH. The crypto world blinked but didn't know why. Now we do.

[00:00:59]Turns out Ripple was a client of the lobbyist Brian Ballard who pushed the post. Trump didn't know when his team found out the White House cryptos are David Saxs lost it. Chief of staff Susie Wilds got involved. The post was revised. Why the freak out? Because XRP being it in that list wasn't just symbolic. It was a threat to the current crypto order. XRP isn't isn't a coin.

[00:01:21]It's a rail. infrastructure, liquidity, plumbing, settlement protocol. Putting it on the list meant admitting the new system is already forming. They tried to walk it back, but the signal already leaked. XRP's name is circulating at the highest levels. Ripples's inside the lobbying machine. The future financial system is being chosen now, not later.

[00:01:43]Then, um, just recently, you know, and they're back to Bitcoin, Bitcoin, Bitcoin. This is Patrick Wit and he was talking to um um Thinking Crypto, Tony from Thinking Crypto about how that executive order is coming to fruition here shortly.

[00:02:00]>> Are there any updates on the strategic Bitcoin reserve and uh when we may see an update? I know all all uh efforts are on the Clarity Act right now, but would the strategic Bitcoin reserve be something that we continue to focus on after? Um yeah, we'll be making an announcement on that probably in the coming weeks or next month or two um on the executive branch front and then we're staying in touch with the leaders on the hill. Uh Representative Begitch is introducing some new legislation. Uh it's going to track largely the Bitcoin act but with some change with some changes based on feedback that they've gotten. So uh the legislative front is continuing to move forward on codifying that into law. And then on the executive branch side, the actual implementation of the SBR executive order, uh we'll have some announcements on that soon.

[00:02:40]Okay, now we're going to go um you're going to watch that in that great intro I've got now and then we're going to talk about the XRP endgame and how the banks are ready.

[00:02:53]Lock in.

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[00:03:18]Okay. Uh, we've got a 141 XRP, so that's kind of boring today, but I do want you to take note of this. We're at 2.6 trillion. The reason I want you to take note of that is uh apparently Brad Comm from Digital Perspectives who does run XRP Las Vegas which is this week.

[00:03:36]Bitcoin Las Vegas starts today. This is an exciting week. Um he ran AI I guess on this market cap uh he he says here postclarity act passage and projected market cap growth 6 months realistic case 4 trillion. We are at what did I just say 2.6 6 trillion almost a double in a realistic conservative case in a bull case AI is saying 6 trillion which is over double the current market in other word let me translate folks you don't even have to be right on your choice of whatever your favorite digital asset is no matter what it is I mean not no matter what it is but I would say if you're in a blue chip one of the blue chips and those are easy to figure out. XRP of course is at the top of the list, but in one year it's saying a realistic case would be 5 trillion, which would be way over double of the current market. A bull case 8 trillion.

[00:04:40]Look at I mean, do I have to draw you a picture here of where this is all going, folks? I know everybody's wait a lot of people have waited a long time, but this is a long game. And if and the thing is I think a lot of this is going to happen a lot faster than people even realize.

[00:04:58]Now I said that the banks are ready.

[00:05:01]This is the other thing. You know the bare market has m has made people forget where we are. I don't forget >> it feels like the floodgates are going to open this year >> doesn't it? I mean, so within the past week, a couple weeks, uh, so Saab 121 being called back or rolled back. Um, and I mean, within it felt like minutes, you know, you hear from CEOs like Bank of America saying, "We're all in." Um, and you know, these are institutions that we uh, I mean, Bank of America was one of our early partners, um, when we were doing kind of like the the messaging software only payment solution. Um, so we've worked with these types of banks for a long time and the lack of clarity and I mean I think in the more recent time even hostility toward hey like you know using these assets and this technology is not okay.

[00:06:00]It's dangerous which is not the best way to handle it as we would say. But looking forward I would say yes it it seems like there's going to be a sea change this year. Um, and even I could say post November, uh, the election, the US election result, even just the conversations, ongoing conversations we've had with banks around being reserve bank or transaction banking partners for the stable coin or for our payments business. Like the the tone and message changed overnight. Like it was quick.

[00:06:42]It was quick.

[00:06:44]Um, now this, you know, I've said this a few times over the years, but I thought I'd put it in a tweet because it's important. This is my XRP endgame theory. It's always been that when utility begins, the price will become will will become like a slow rising bathtub of water. At some point, the speculators will realize this and move in fast. This will create a slow rising price floor and speculation will bounce up and down off the slow rising floor.

[00:07:11]Supply will become an issue quickly. You know what happens then? Now, I'm not just saying this. I heard this a version of this out of David Schwarz mouth himself in um Singapore at Ripple Swell in 2019.

[00:07:28]Somebody asked him, "Do you think that the XRP price will rise slowly?" And he said something in in like this. He said he said, "Yeah, but the thing is it's at some point it's likely that the speculators will start to realize that the utility is is slowly coming in and then the speculators will get aggressively start buying, which would cause it to move fast.

[00:07:58]That's what we're talking about. That's why I'm here, folks. Patiently waiting for another bull switch. These are all true. I was there on through all of them. Here was 2017 18 when XRP took off. Um, this was 2021. This one was a good one, too. And then we had uh back was it November 2024 when this happened.

[00:08:22]I don't even think we've seen the big one yet. The big one's coming. Now, I wanted everybody to show this. This is the digital asset guy. I met him in um at XRP Las Vegas. Really nice guy. Um he uh sent he he DM'd me this last night and I wanted to show it to you because the scammers are getting creative and they're targeting it Capital customers.

[00:08:44]Listen to a little bit of this. digital asset guy. Yesterday I received the most sophisticated crypto scammer attack uh in my decadel long crypto career. I've dealt with hundreds of scammers, emails, phone calls, uh text messages, you name it. And I've gotten pretty good at picking out the scammers. But yesterday, I will admit it was sophisticated enough that they almost had me convinced they might not be a scammer. So, I got a phone call. I look at my phone and it says, "I trust capital." And it's the exact number that I have saved in my phone as one of my contacts saying they're calling me. I pick up, they say, "Hello, this is soando with iTrust Capital. Is this soando?" I say, "Yes." And I'm thinking this is probably a scam, but let's hear what they have to say. So they rattle me and they say, "Um, we just wanted to confirm that you have decided to uh distribute your IRA in a very uh large amount. We we wanted to make sure that this was you initiating this um just cuz it seems a little out of the ordinary for you." And these guys are very good because they knew exactly how to say it so that it seemed legit. And I said, "Uh, certainly not. That was not me."

[00:10:08]And they said, "Oh, um, in that case, we urge you to change your password immediately." Uh, and there's one other issue, and I'm thinking that's kind of normal that they would tell me that.

[00:10:22]They're not asking for anything. So, I'm kind of playing along, but I'm kind of thinking it might be real. I mean, it came up capital saved in my phone. So, then they say, "There's one other thing, though. Also, there's there's another problem. Someone is initiating a withdraw to a private custodial wallet, kind of like a a hardware wallet. Uh, was this you? And I said, "Uh, no, definitely not." And they said, "Oh, uh, well, it's pretty clear that you're probably your account is being hacked."

[00:10:53]>> Now, folks, so far it's all just words, but at some point they're going to want something from. This is where you need to be paying attention. So, we would advise you to we're going to lock down your account and you should change your password. They said, "Uh, we just want to verify that this is your account. Can you verify what type of hardware wallet you use so that we can make sure that it came from that hardware wallet when you open this account and funded it with crypto?" And right there, I knew that's not that's not a thing. And I knew when they said that they were sending it to a hardware wallet, that wasn't a thing because I know iTrust Capital has a closed loop system. So I hung up. I called Itrust, talked to somebody.

[00:11:38]>> Okay. So after he sent me this, I I uh contacted one of the founders of Itrust Capital and they said, "Yeah, this is really prevalent right now." So here's here's the lesson to learn from this. I don't care who it is. Don't answer your phone if it says any any place you have.

[00:11:56]uh just don't answer the phone. And if you're going to contact ITRU Capital, you go directly to their website. And I would I wouldn't even go to the search engines. I would type in it capital.com and then they've got a phone number up at the top. If you click um on uh you you can find it. It's it's let me see here. Let me click from my link.

[00:12:22]If you go to support, I'm on ITR Capital's website right now. If you go to support home, I believe they've got their actual phone number right here.

[00:12:32]You can click call us and there's the phone number. Call them directly. Don't respond anything like that. If you get something that comes across that says I trust capital, just go and um and go directly to their site and call them.

[00:12:46]Don't ever respond to stuff like that.

[00:12:49]Um, okay. But if you want to open an account like I did because these guys are all over this security type stuff, go to it capital.com/xrp army. They are one of my sponsors.

[00:13:01]Click, you can open the accounts here clicking on these buttons here. All right. This is a very good point from Bitru. Ever wondered what uh wondered uh might RLUSD works better than USDC?

[00:13:15]Here's why RLUSD may win the stable coin race. The Clarity Act's potential yield ban on stable coins may hurt yield focused competitors like USDC while favoring RLUSD's payments settlement model. In other words, if they get rid of yield, it might hurt these these uh stable coins that are that are currently getting yield.

[00:13:37]In other RLUSD right now is is basically my understanding is that they're competing with all these these stable coins that get yield while it doesn't.

[00:13:47]Maybe our LUSD gets yield some places, but it's the core of what USDC is doing.

[00:13:53]What if that advantage gets ripped away?

[00:13:56]And then uh Jim Rickards is making his rounds talking about petro dollar 2.0.

[00:14:02]>> You don't think that uh one byproduct is really the end of the petro dollar? It's working against them despite their supposed strategy of trying to control uh the strait. Actually, it's uh the end of the petrod dollar because it's being bypassed as we speak. Um it's small amounts. It's really loose change. I mean, the petro dollar is actually getting stronger. I call petro dollar 2.0. By the way, I was in the in the White House with the uh working with Henry Kissinger's deputy when we set up Petetro dollar 1.0 1974 was working on plans to invade Saudi Arabia, which was the that was the stick. We had a carrot and stick. So, uh, Secretary William Simon and Jerry Parski had the carrot, which is, hey, Arabs, you charge, uh, sell oil in dollars, and since everyone needs oil, that means everyone needs dollars and that established the dollars, the global reserve currency after the end of the gold standard. This is petrod dollar 2.0, which is uh, the only people who have oil are the United States and Russia that can get out if if he block the Persian Gulf. But this is my point. Trump wants the Persian Gulf closed so he can increase the power of US exports and that actually reinforces the role of the dollar. So uh from what you're saying there I I don't know what those people around the table would say today. Some of them some of them obviously no longer with us uh when you were at that meeting for the petro dollar.

[00:15:25]How important is it then for Iran to react uh and Saudi Arabia GCT countries against this Trump policy? I'm not sure whether you believe it's a conscious policy or it's a byproduct a byproduct of Israeli policy. How important is it now for GCC countries and China and India and the new order to react very assertively? Well, it's very important except China is um well, I would say South Korea, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and China are in the most vulnerable position. So, it's one thing to say how would they react is a very good question, but how do you react when you don't have the power? Now, the GCC does have the power of oil exports, but that's been choked off by first, you have to go through two toll booths.

[00:16:13]First toll booth is Iran. Second toll booth is the US Navy. The US Navy will let the GCC oil out, but Iran will not because it's heading to Western Europe or Japan or >> pay tolls presumably.

[00:16:26]>> Well, no. There's this it's a two factor test. One is do we let you out at all and then secondly then pay the toll. We have to you're right. You have to do both things. Um, but if it if that oil is going to uh uh you know to Germany or or Roderdam or Australia for that matter, will the Iranians let that car go out toll or no toll because they support the West, they support the United States. So that that's a problem.

[00:16:50]And then again beyond that, the US Yeah.

[00:16:53]If a if a UAE um if a Abu Dhabi oil tanker got through the straight of Hermuz, the US Navy is going to let that go unless perhaps if it's heading to China. We'll have to see. But again, this is um uh this appears to be uh intentional on the part of the United States that Trump is in no hurry to reopen the straight of hormones because it strengthens the US position and by extension Russia. Russia is a big winner out of all this cuz they're they can the US has suspended certain sanctions on Russian oil exports. Those sanctions been in place since 2022. Now, you're right, the Russians got around them pretty easily, but they're still in place. They still have some impact. They increased the expenses and the secretary of the treasury has issued orders to suspend the sanctions which lets Russia back into the game at least as far as Europe and u and and and the west is concerned. So um it it looks like the only people with oil these days are Russia and the United States.

[00:17:52]>> Yep.

[00:17:55]Here's Trump on what's going on. But what you're referring to is that when when you have, you know, lines of vast amounts of oil pouring through your system, if for any reason that line is closed because you you can't continue to put it into containers or ships, which has happened to them, they have no ships because of the blockade. What happens is that line explodes from within both mechanically and in the earth. It something happens where it just explodes. They say they only have about 3 days left before that happens. And when it explodes, you can never, regardless, you can never rebuild it the way it was. In other words, it will always be if you rebuild it, it's hard to rebuild it all, but it would only be about 50% of what it is right now. So, it's a very powerful thing that takes place. Sort of having to do with nature.

[00:18:47]But when when that gets clogged at the end, in other words, when you have to turn it off because you have no place to store this oil, either put it on ships or storage tanks, which they are just about finished with, uh, a very bad thing is going to happen. So, I think they're under pressure. But, >> all right. Um, look at this. This is a uh good place to uh finish here. Um, this was Cistine Research back in 2025.

[00:19:18]They had XRP $37 to $50. I said, "My prediction XRP gets to a price that's in direct proportion to how long we have had to wait." This is kind of what I think. No question about it. Okay, I got a lot more. Bitcoin Las Vegas starts today. XRP Las Vegas, we're going to talk about a lot of that in the group.

[00:19:39]Got a lot more things to talk about, too. Um, go to dixrp.com.

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