$5000 XRP PREDICTION JUST DROPPED?!?! (THIS IS MEGA BULLISH!!!)

[00:00:00]Here's the through-line for today.

[00:00:01]There's the hype, and then there's what's actually written down in the documents. And those two are not always the same thing.

[00:00:10]Jake Claver is back in the headlines chasing another viral moment, and this time he's floating a four to five-digit price for XRP.

[00:00:19]We've also got Versant from Black Swan Capitalist, who dropped this.

[00:00:23]XRP won't climb in a steady line. It'll climb in violent leaps.

[00:00:29]You need to hear the full clip on that one.

[00:00:31]We're also going to get into institutions actually building on the XRP ledger because a brand new interview just hit the Twitter sphere. Tony Edward sitting down with developers on the XRP ledger.

[00:00:43]We're going to hear from Ashish Birla, and we already know Franklin Templeton is building out the future infrastructure for wallets. A lot of that, in my view, ends up pulling XRP right into the middle of it. I'll show you exactly why in a second.

[00:01:00]On top of all that, fresh updates on price and on what the Fed just did.

[00:01:05]There's a ton of genuinely interesting stuff packed into this one, guys. So, let's walk through it together. Let's actually get a handle on what's happening out here in the market. And I'll let you land on your own read because it's always a fun time when you can put information like this in front of people.

[00:01:23]Now, you'll remember we talked about Jake a whole lot last year. And then a big chunk of the predictions he put out just never came true. And now he's clawing his way back into the spotlight.

[00:01:35]So, here we go.

[00:01:38]>> If we wanted to go viral again, what would we say? What are some viral clips that you can make a claim right now that everyone would go, "Dude, you're full of shit."

[00:01:48]>> So, you know, a lot of people I've already come out and said this, so I'll just, you know, time frames again are hard to pick.

[00:01:54]But, uh I think if all of these things play out as we've talked about, the reverse carry trade unwinds, you see BlackRock come out with an XRP ETF, uh, Tether has some issues, you could see, you know, easily a four-digit XRP in a very short period of time, couple thousand dollars. And if we see the tokenization of the derivatives market, that's where you're going to see a $10,000 XRP.

[00:02:22]And we already have the tokenization of the stock market this year. That's going to happen. We've had the president of NASDAQ come out, we've had the president of NYSE or the New York Stock Exchange, and you've had Paul, who's the head of the SEC, all come out and say, "This year, 2026, you're going to see the tokenization of the stock market." And they're going to have to move to real-time settlement because they're going to move to 23/5.

[00:02:42]So, 23 hours a day, five days a week, the stock market's going to be trading.

[00:02:46]And you have to have real-time clearing between the the clearing houses and the brokers using DTCC. And the only way they're going to be able to do that is if XRP is at a very high price.

[00:02:58]So, 2026 is looking like a really good year.

[00:03:03]>> 2026.

[00:03:04]>> 2026 is looking like a really good year.

[00:03:06]>> 2025 is looking like a really good year, right up until we hit the end of 2025.

[00:03:13]After that, not so great. But okay, a few things I want to hit. Tokenization of the stock market, that's happening, no question.

[00:03:21]The DTCC is pushing ahead with their tokenization plans built around Canton Network. And that's the same thing Ripple and 50 other participants are a part of. All of that is centered on Canton specifically. And then, yeah, you've also got the Stellar news in the mix. Now, here's the part people skip.

[00:03:41]The DTCC has not come out and said they're using XRP for settlement. They haven't said it. It's nowhere. You literally cannot find it. Trust me, if it was out there, I'd have dug it up by now. But, there are pieces that matter.

[00:03:57]The DTCC bought Securrency, and Securrency can use XRP. The DTCC holds that patent around XRP and XLM, and that actually came from Securrency. So, there's plenty here that points toward XRP playing a role, but it has not officially been said or put in any document that I can point at and tell you they're 100% going to use XRP in this case. Now, Ripple Prime is connected to the DTCC, but only for Ripple clients. What we don't know is whether the DTCC ever uses XRP infrastructure outside of Ripple Prime, or whether they route a big chunk of that settlement straight through Ripple Prime. That part is still up in the air.

[00:04:44]So, I just wanted to lay that out. Next, the reverse carry trade. Honestly, I think we'll be talking about this one for years. I've been digging through Bank of Japan reports, BIS reports. I've been sitting down with the academic papers from economists over in Japan, and it's just not there. I'm actually putting a whole video together on it.

[00:05:05]I wanted it locked down and seriously well researched before I dropped it. So, that's coming in the next few days. I want to walk through the facts, the stuff I know to be true on the ground.

[00:05:16]And here it is. Not one paper, not one Bank of Japan report, not one BIS report, not one real academic paper tied to the Bank of Japan has ever said a single thing about XRP getting used if the carry trade unwinds and they suddenly need a wall of liquidity. Could they reach for a crypto asset, a bridge asset like XRP? Sure, it makes sense.

[00:05:45]Don't get me wrong, but I cannot find it written down anywhere as even a possibility coming from those institutions. So, I just want to set the table here because I keep watching people tweet it and talk it up. And yeah, it pulls views, it pulls clicks, but they're flat-out ignoring what the facts on the ground actually say.

[00:06:07]The carry trade is not unwinding at the kind of levels that would ever force a scenario where XRP gets needed. Could it be the infrastructure a few years down the line? Maybe. Right now though, that's not how it's shaping up. And we'll get into that. Okay, I went on a bit of a tangent there, but I wanted to actually walk you through some of it. Is any of that going to happen? Who knows?

[00:06:33]Would it be nice? Of course it would be nice if it specifically helped Ripple and XRP.

[00:06:38]What wouldn't be nice is the entire crypto market collapsing to get there.

[00:06:43]Okay. All right.

[00:06:45]>> [clears throat and cough] >> Versant from Black Swan Capitalist drops this.

[00:06:49]XRP won't climb in a nice steady line.

[00:06:53]It's going to climb in violent leaps.

[00:06:56]Once real utility flips on regulatory clarity, banks actually using it and cross border, plus tokenization volume exploding, the price action is going to get crazier and non-linear. The infrastructure has already been built and tested in silence for over a decade.

[00:07:15]When the conditions are right and the switch hits, it won't be a gentle two times to three times moves. We're talking about multiple explosive leaps in short windows as trapped liquidity shorts and institutions all rush in at the same time. This is how utility assets will move and the floodgates open.

[00:07:36]>> Because the plumbing already exists, and it's going to be XRP. You know, XRP at the end of the day is the settlement infrastructure for the new economy and as tokenization volume explodes, the demand for settlement is going to explode alongside it and those who are providing that critical infrastructure power that transition. So, um XRP will eventually decouple from the entire market and become a beast of its own.

[00:08:02]>> All right, let's keep going. That's a good one. Solid clip from Versant. Now, think about this. For years, institutions just did not want to build on the XRP ledger and that was all because of the SEC and Ripple lawsuit.

[00:08:16]They had no idea whether Ripple was going to land that designation that XRP isn't a security. Now that we've got an answer, institutions have been flooding in to build and this next clip really nails where we are right now. Let's play it.

[00:08:33]>> You mentioned the institutional demand and and that was kind of being held back, kind of like a dam, right? But now that dam has been opened and we're seeing the floodgates open essentially.

[00:08:42]There was a recent news item of Ripple, JP Morgan, Mastercard and Ondo Finance using the XRP ledger to cash out tokenized treasuries, excuse me, cash out tokenized treasury fund internationally. Tell us about this. How did this partnership come about and how what are they doing on the XRP ledger?

[00:09:01]>> Yeah, I mean I think because of Ripple's, you know, reputation as a, you know, financial institutional home of sorts, I I think it was a natural progression of of the things that Ripple had been investing in and I think this relationship and this pilot really came together on XRPL because of the low friction way of tokenizing assets, which is just the starting point, right? And once the assets are tokenized, then it becomes, you know, about, you know, the movement of of those assets. So, the mobility, the the settlement times, the the ability to connect, you know, um uh on-chain markets with off-chain systems, right? Uh that's really where all of this is the come coming together.

[00:09:46]And what's really cool about this pilot, um with the parties you mentioned, is just the fact that, you know, we can now do liquidity management around um around tokenized, you know, treasuries, right? We can do things like um you know, like when you mentioned, you know, being able to cash out. I mean, I think that that is like to be able to do that quickly, right? And and sort of um without some of the friction that you we we've seen, you know, in traditional finance. Uh like those are things that we're now able to explore with all these parties um in play. And so, it's it's proving that the ledger is is moved far beyond just, you know, payments. And it's it's sort of crossed into this boundary of, you know, providing this mobility for tokenized assets, where, you know, um you can do more with the same primitives, right? And and and sort of unlocking the utility that comes with, you know, assets being represented on on a blockchain that's purpose-built uh for movement, right? And so, it's really that is the unlock um and that that is is pretty interesting. Um and of course, uh I know um I'm I'm trying to remember the um so, Ondo has their, I think their the treasury fund, the OUSG, uh represented as well.

[00:10:58]Um and I think um Mastercard has their multi-token network. Uh and and so, all of these things are coming together to sort of um enable settlement with, you know, traditional financial networks. And so, we're not trying to replace the existing, you know, financial infrastructure. We're trying to just like upgrade it in a way that we can kind of unlock we like do more with what's already there, um with without actually, you know, changing what's on the surface, right? So, it's really just this uh empowerment that that is happening um with the XRP ledger that that's really cool to to you know, uh come to fruition in real time.

[00:11:32]>> Empowerment of the XRP ledger, unlocking utility. Not just talking about payments, but other things outside of that tokenized bond settlement, you got the treasury operations. You now have a hidden road and everything that's going to bring to the table. Every single day we're covering breaking news on Ripple and XRP. And once you start stacking all of it, you know, 10 stories, then 50, then 100, then 1,000, piling on top of each other and things really start to move here. Look, even if half of this stuff, even a quarter of it actually comes to fruition, that is massive for XRP's utility. And I think we all end up extremely happy at the end of the day.

[00:12:13]The big question, obviously, is when does that day land? We're all waiting on it. And in the meantime, we're grinding, learning, growing our bags, doing everything we possibly can to just load ourselves up with good information.

[00:12:27]Because hopefully that information leads to the whole point of this, you know, getting to retire a little earlier, doing something nice for your kids, maybe starting a charity. Whatever your thing is on the other side of price appreciation, just keep building on those ideas. It's coming sooner rather than later. I really believe that. And me, I'm ready for it. And I know you are, too. All right, this rolls us right into tokenization and everything else getting built out on the XRP ledger. And how the XRP ledger is just perfectly suited for it with that native DEX built right in. This is a Shishurla. And then we go straight into the clip with Sandy Call. It's like, trust me, it's pancakes and syrup. Is that even the saying? No, probably not exactly, but you get it.

[00:13:14]They go together.

[00:13:16]>> To make this world unfold, you need the technology and I really think that XRP as like the engine is really good at moving tokenized value. It's got a built-in exchange. A lot of folks didn't know that. And and we're seeing that, you know, tokenization start to increase on the XRP ecosystem. You know, partially stable coins, but partially with some of these partnerships around Franklin Templeton and others tokenizing. And so I really do think that all of the plumbing that Ripple laid over the years of connecting into financial institutions, like that is hard work. There is no shortcutting the licensing, but that is creating this connectivity to to the real world. So I really think that XRP is really around this world of tokenized value and connecting to the real world and exchange.

[00:14:04]>> [clears throat] >> All right, and that clip flows right into this one. Listen closely.

[00:14:09]>> I mean, what's the grand vision here now that you're working towards?

[00:14:12]>> Yeah, so we believe that the entire interface to your future financial life is going to be your wallet. Right? That today, when I think about it, I have a checking account, maybe multiple checking accounts at different banks, I have different savings accounts, I have different brokerage accounts, I have health care accounts, I have insurance accounts, right? I have accounts everywhere. So putting together my own financial picture is difficult. Actually optimizing the use of all my assets is almost impossible because they're so disaggregated.

[00:14:45]But when they all move into my wallet and my wallet becomes my interface to the world, all [clears throat] of those assets become interoperable. Not only are they aggregated and can I see my total wealth picture, I'm going to be able to really look at every single holding in that wallet and think about am I optimizing it? Can I lend this and get more fees for it? Can I put it into a liquidity pool? Can I stake this asset? Right?

[00:15:12]There's going to be multiple options that I can do for every single asset in my portfolio, and my operating cash, my savings, and my investments are all going to be commingled, so I can have new goals. I can say maximize my buying power. Which form of money should I use to pay for this transaction? I can say save for my college or my college retire or my retirement, and I can look at every asset in my portfolio and think about how to optimize it to get as much yield as possible. So, this whole concept of what we manage and how we manage it is on the verge of a major evolution, uh and we are starting to see the first phases of that shift happen.

[00:15:56]Uh and we're going to see from the DTC and New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq this year tokenization of regular equities and bonds. And that's going to be huge, even though it's a digital twin model and not the ideal digitally native model, it is going to force everyone in that deals with equities and bonds in the professional financial markets to put a wallet system in. And having that wallet is going to open up so many possibilities and so much opportunity for improvement.

[00:16:27]>> Love that. I love it. And of course, none of it works without the infrastructure. You need the public blockchains, you need XRP, and you need all that utility riding along with it.

[00:16:38]There's been a long list of partnerships rolling out proof of concepts, you know, with Franklin Templeton. I'm not going to go deep on it right now. I just wanted to dust off what I already knew about it, but trust me, there's a lot more coming on that front. All right, Warsh. So, the new Fed chair gave a briefing today, and the headline is this. Warsh just killed the last of the 2026 rate cuts.

[00:17:03]Yep, we're staring at rate hikes now instead of rate cuts. Why? Well, inflation's been ticking back up. The job market looks okay right now. They just don't feel the need to lower rates.

[00:17:17]And sure, we can argue about it. Are the job numbers even accurate? Are they getting revised down later? Doesn't really matter for this. The read right now is that the job market is fine, and inflation is climbing. The only path to them cutting rates is inflation sitting near that target of around 2%. We're closer to 4% right now, so it's just not happening. Warsh had this whole plan to walk in with lower rates, hold the short-term borrowing rate down, keep the long-term rate up higher, so banks could borrow cheap, and then turn around and hand you loan money at higher amounts.

[00:17:55]Yeah, that's not looking likely.

[00:17:57]Fed holds rates steady at 3.25 to 3.75.

[00:18:02]Kevin Warsh's first decision as Fed chair keeps policy unchanged for the fourth straight meeting.

[00:18:08]And they're already floating raising rates before the year is out, at least one time, maybe.

[00:18:14]So, brace yourselves because that's the complete opposite of what the market was betting on.

[00:18:19]But if you were actually paying attention the way we do, the way we break it down all the time in Life Chance, none of this caught us off guard. We've seen it coming for a long time. We track exactly where inflation sits in the United States and what the Fed is likely to do with it. We cover all of that. So, no, not surprised one bit. All right.

[00:18:39]Indonesia's Financial Services Authority, OJK, is set to release a world a real-world asset tokenization regulation in Q3 2026.

[00:18:50]So, Indonesia is officially moving on this. And smoke flag this one, too, that on top of everything else, here is XRP-based international money transfer services using Ripple's payment solution to be gradually expanded in the Philippines, Vietnam, and Indonesia. So, you've got SBI Remit co-president Yoshinori, or Yoshiori Kamori. This is the international remittance arm of SBI Group, plus VC Trade, a crypto asset service operator, tied in with Ripple, and so on. Basically, the joint connection. He's drawing the line between what's kicking off here in Indonesia and the fact that Ripple may already be set up to handle a piece of that infrastructure.

[00:19:35]Let's [clears throat] just be clear about where price sits.

[00:19:38]We took a run at breaking the dollar 30 resistance, didn't get it. We smacked our heads on it and got shoved right back down.

[00:19:45]And all of that traced back to the news that the Iran and US conflict might be winding down.

[00:19:53]We're in this 60-day window now, where both sides have to prove they're serious about ending the war. And ideally, once that 60 days is up, a longer-term policy gets locked in. It's also looking like the US could be giving up possibly hundreds of billions of dollars to end this thing. And yeah, ouch. That one stings. So, of course, the markets aren't thrilled about what's in the deal. That's exactly why you're watching the sell-off play out. Is it temporary?

[00:20:24]Sure, it absolutely could be.

[00:20:26]But you're going to need bigger and better news than this to really start dragging the price back up. The ETFs keep buying, and I think that's a great sign. And then, of course, Matt Damon, one of the speakers at Ripple Swell. So, are you going to be there? All right, guys, that's a wrap for today. Go enjoy your weekend, for real. If you liked this one, drop a like, leave a comment down there. I genuinely read every single one of them. And hey, if you're somehow not subscribed yet, what are you waiting for? New crypto content every single day. I got you. See you tomorrow.