THE CFTC CHAIR IS ABOUT TO UNLEASH XRP! (HUGE NEWS!)

Added: 2026-05-18

[00:00:00]XRP holders, it is officially here. The time that we have been waiting on for years and years and years is finally here. And I am going to be addressing this because guys, XRP is in a completely different league of its own. And the era that is starting right now is going to be extremely prosperous for those that are focused on utility based assets, that are focused on what truly matters in the space and are studying, researching, and locking in. right now. Let's start off with a few things, though. Number one, CME Group and NASDAQ both announced the launch of a crypto index futures tracking Bitcoin, Ethereum, Salana, XRP, ADA, Link, and XLM in a single contract.

[00:00:58]Now, is this crazy bullish? No, because it's futures and futures simply do not affect the underlying spot-based value of these assets. It doesn't really provide uh volume at all. So, you know, the futures contracts, yeah, it's great to see that, you know, the NASDAQ is showing up in a big way. Uh, we know that they have been talking about tokenization for quite a bit of time.

[00:01:19]CME Group has been around the space for a very long time as well. Uh, so that makes a lot of sense. But it's great to see a lot of recognition for, you know, some of these assets like for an example XRP, XLM, and others. It's awesome and it's great and I do believe that we are going to see a lot more. Now, on top of that, Brad Garlinghouse recently made a statement by doing the crypto in under one minute uh show that Ripple has been posting for years now. And we have here over a decade in the making, under a minute to explain XRP. And here we have, what makes XRP unique? Well, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse answers in under a minute. Four billion transactions, 3 to 5 second settlements, less than a penny each. A community that never stopped believing. A special edition of Crypto in One Minute. XRP in one minute starts now. Check it out, guys. Hi, I'm Brad Garlinghouse. I'm here for my second crypto in a minute here at XRP Las Vegas. So, we're doing something special to make it XRP in a minute.

[00:02:25]I'm Brad Garlinghouse and I'm back for XRP in a minute. What makes XRP unique?

[00:02:32]I'm going to go way back in time and talk about the earliest inventors of XRP ledger who had been contributors to the core of Bitcoin. And they saw in that an opportunity to build something specialized and specific and unique to really solve a payments problem. And so what makes XRP so unique is its speed, settling transactions in three to five seconds, its cost, extremely low cost, fractions of a penny per transaction, and its scalability. Now having completed over four billion transactions, you add in that with a special dash of an incredible community around XRP, what I like to call the XRP family. Sometimes we're we're going to be the XRP army depending upon what's going on. But you put those things together and you include the longevity of this blockchain, you have something special and unique that is poised for great success in the years ahead.

[00:03:23]And I do completely agree with Brad there. Like it is poised for significant success. That's why I said like it's going to be a prosperous time being an XRP holder for the next couple years because we're seeing everything fall in line right now. And no, I don't think that we have to wait for price action. I stated this many times over in previous videos as well. Price action will show up again. It's only a matter of time.

[00:03:45]Crypto has a way of making you believe that, you know, things are done. It's never going back up. It's this, that, whatever. And right when you start to give up is when the price action starts to, you know, flow right back in and it makes you FOMO back in and it it makes you buy closer to the top than you should have been because again people are getting frustrated. They're losing patience X Y and Z. So again, when we look at what's happening with crypto, uh I would not be quick to jump out of crypto. I would not be quick to jump back into the fiat-based system because I do believe that our entire financial system is shifting. Now, on top of that, we do have over here from the head of engineering at Ripple XDev. He put out a great overall post. Uh this is with, you know, the American banker. Uh he pretty much wrote a full article regarding how institutional DeFi is upgrading the plumbing of global finance. Global markets have spent decades operating around settlement delays, fragmented liquidity, and infrastructure that was never designed for realtime value movement. That is beginning to change.

[00:04:52]In my latest OPED for American Banker, I explore how tokenized assets and blockchain infrastructure are shaping the underlying plumbing of global finance and why institutional adoption is moving from experimentation to realworld implementation. And I'm sure that you guys could pretty much assume what blockchain technology he's talking about and what tokenized assets he is also addressing. These are the kinds of real world financial workflows the XRP ledger was designed to enable and where it is already seen growing traction today. and looking into this. Yeah, I mean it's pretty sure like I I mean at this point I don't think that we need to like sit here and say oh I wonder if this is really you know happening or oh I I I don't know how certain I am that this is going to be the new system. But when you look at things like this like this is a full breakdown of a source regarding you know the value of onchain and this is among financial institutions discussing planning or implementing onchain technology and we have yes 25% right now no 58% and not sure 17%. I would argue that by the end of this year, this would look completely different. And it all comes back to one thing, clarity. Today, can your financial institutions, payment hub, or payment infrastructure support both traditional money payments and tokenized money payments on a single unified platform?

[00:06:16]And down here we have key insight.

[00:06:18]Financial institutions, regulators, and developers are aligning around a common goal of creating infrastructure that makes our global financial system faster, more efficient, and more secure.

[00:06:27]Yeah. upgrading the entire financial system.

[00:06:31]Think about that. Think about how big of a statement that is. What's at stake?

[00:06:37]Modern markets execute trades in milliseconds but settle in days. That gap is where risk accumulates. Forward look, tokenized assets are becoming more and more common. Settlement models are being redefined and collateral is becoming more fluid. And it's because when we think about these financial markets and the financial system guys, it's decades and decades and decades out ofdate.

[00:07:03]So when we think about that, we need to bring it into the new age of finance.

[00:07:08]And the best way to do that is by utilizing new technology like blockchain, like AI. And again, when we go back to the whole idea of like institutional DeFi, we go back to institutional DeFi on the XRP ledger.

[00:07:20]Like this is just recently from February 5th. The craziest part about this is they literally tell you that the foundation for the next generation of blockchain based financial infrastructure is being built with XRP as the backbone.

[00:07:35]Now you see why Ripple has been hard at work pushing major upgrade after major upgrade to enable institutional DeFi on the XRP ledger. It's because at the core of this is number one XRP, but also the goal of this is to upgrade the entire plumbing behind our traditional financial system.

[00:07:58]And we don't get there without clarity, which is why it's such a big important deal that clarity is emerging. Finally, Jeremy Lair, co-founder and CEO of Circle stated, "Clarity is emerging.

[00:08:14]Digital tokens and blockchain protocols read, write, own stable coin utility, open infrastructure that the whole financial industry can build on.

[00:08:26]We are thrilled with the progress of the Senate Banking Committee towards enacting this critical law that will help transform the global financial system. It seems as though the outline here for clarity to finally become law is by the end of August. And with that in mind, what happens next? Well, we have over here that the CFTC just went full cryptobool. Big shout out to Bank XRP for this video clip. CFTC chair Mike Cele said, "Under my chairmanship, the CFTC is ready to regulate the new frontier of finance, blockchain, AI, prediction markets, build it in America.

[00:09:06]The regulatory era isn't coming. It's already here."

[00:09:11]What company, what blockchain, what digital asset stands at the forefront to benefit from this? Oh yeah, that's right. XRP, Ripple.

[00:09:24]This is a gamechanging moment in the space and it only puts a lot more weight behind some of these names in the market. But check this out.

[00:09:34]>> We really are at a pivotal moment with AI. I think it's transforming our markets and and really the way every one of us uh probably interacts with our uh you know world around us. I think as an agency we want to embrace this innovation. We don't want to be lites and hold people back in the past when you can open up your smartphone and log into an app and and be able to kind of develop a trading strategy. I mean that that's a really interesting technology.

[00:10:01]It also is one that can create a lot of risk because you're not uh subject to the same sort of guardrails that you would uh encounter when you go to your broker dealer or to your futures commission merchant. You're trying to execute trades. Blockchain technology also amplifies this because you can plug an AI tool into a digital wallet and be able to trade pretty frictionlessly on a blockchain using that technology. So we don't want to push that offshore or um kind of ban it and and and you know fear the future. We want to embrace that but it's really important that we develop investor protections, customer protections and make sure that people aren't getting burned by the use of this technology. Um that starts with understanding it as a regulator. So we're meeting with as I mentioned through the innovation task force with a lot of the firms that are developing these models as well as different applications that incorporate the models. Um we're also meeting with uh participants that are interested in incorporating that into trading advisory software or into an exchange uh functionality. Um we expect to see in the near future uh just like your chat bots when you you know open up your your open AI or your cloud software and you can uh chat with it and give it instructions people are going to develop these types of tools for trading and and for financial advice. Um so so we're expecting to see a lot of these applications come down. Um working with these firms will be a priority at the agency. um we may need to to engage in new rulemaking to be able to um ensure that there's the right protections for users and for these firms. Another area that that is really interesting to me is the area of agentic finance where you have um autonomous agents that are able to go into the markets and trade. Um and and that's a real uh challenging question for us because we're so used to regulating intermediaries. Uh but some of this stuff really is um entirely softwarebased and it's not something that's controlled by any central actor once it gets deployed and is out there.

[00:11:58]So we have to think about a lot of novel issues as as regulators, but we're not going to fear the future. We're going to embrace it and find a way to to get the rules right so the American people can use all these really interesting technologies.

[00:12:11]>> Yeah. And it's happening now. It's kind of crazy to listen to these regulatory bodies, right, talking to us about crypto so in depth. Like if we go back just over like a year ago, right?

[00:12:30]They were not having these conversations. Crypto was pretty much unspoken for. The only time that crypto made any sort of headline from the CFTC, the SEC or anyone was when it was talked about negatively. Now you are literally seeing confirmation that blockchain is the future. Like this is the next step to innovate and completely revolutionize our financial system and people still want to jump out of this space right now. I don't understand it. I don't get it if I'm being completely honest with you guys because everything is so clear. I don't think that there has been a clearer time in crypto that we are right where we we are supposed to be and the moment is finally here for us.

[00:13:18]But also we go over here. Cynthia Llama said in the Senate, "It provides a level playing field about transmitting money, money faster, and cheaper." This is an innovation that provides individual freedom. Check this video clip out.

[00:13:38]>> It provides a level playing field regardless of whether you live in Rwanda or Queens, New York about transmitting money faster and cheaper. It provides a woman who's trying to get out of a battered, miserable marriage the opportunity to walk away with her money in her head. It provides people who are being tortured in foreign countries the opportunity to walk away from that country with their money in their head because Bitcoin can be memorized.

[00:14:16]This is an innovation that provides individual freedom, individual savings. It is faster, cheaper. It is secure and we're inviting that consumer environment into our country. It provides a level >> and yeah this is really it's really happening like this is the moment where almost everything is changing in crypto for the better because the the value behind the technology is finally being realized. It's finally being talked about. It's addressed. There's a spotlight put on it. This is extremely extremely important to understand at this moment because we are in that critical time of evolution where it reminds me going back to like the whole idea of like the internet boom, right?

[00:15:07]Initially you had all the nonsense and then regulatory bodies started to get in um the government started regulating the internet a bit more and then all of a sudden over the next couple years the internet was everywhere. Everyone was on the internet. Um it started to be tapped in with mobile phones and things like that. The difference here is that we already have all these devices. All we need to do is integrate the technology.

[00:15:31]So almost all of the work's done. We just need to regulate it. That's it. And we're pretty much there. I I would say that we're about 70% 60 or like 70% of the way there. So yeah, we are at the moment in the biggest moment for XRP and for crypto.

[00:15:57]So with that being said, I hope that you guys enjoyed this video. If you guys did, definitely leave a like, subscribe, notifications on because my free content. You guys are more than welcome to follow me on Twitter and join the free Discord on description below. And with that being said, guys, I'm Nick.

[00:16:06]Thanks for watching. Peace out, guys.