Ripple: Raise The Standard/XRP & The Great Wealth Transfer

Added: 2026-05-05

[00:00:01][snorts] >> Hey everybody, this is the digital asset investor and let's start off let's talk a little bit about the great wealth transfer that's coming our way with crypto, XRP, and digital assets.

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[00:00:20]Let's start here.

[00:00:22]I lost you to comment and give your your your thoughts for the years ahead.

[00:00:27]Yeah, um as Joanna said about adoption is for sure going to go up.

[00:00:32]We will see more liquidity coming into digital assets which leads to more professionalization.

[00:00:39]Um as already mentioned also before by Joanna, demand is currently or will be much greater than supply which also will have its effect its effect.

[00:00:51]And uh not to be underestimated also the the great wealth transfer which we are in the middle of now which will have a crucial importance for digital assets.

[00:01:02]And yeah, it's an it's interesting times to be alive I would say.

[00:01:07]Now, you hear the great wealth transfer uh you hear about that all the time, but what does it really mean? Smoke's done a lot of good stuff on that. Here's a clip that he had put out. We believe that the upcoming generational wealth transfer may have structural implications for crypto as assets change hands, portfolios could shift incorporate a higher share of crypto assets creating a tailwind for valuations. For example, based on the current 110 trillion in wealth by baby boomers and the silent generation, a 2% flow into crypto allocations would imply an additional 2.2 trillion in net new demand for digital assets.

[00:01:45]So, that's what when I think of the great wealth transfer. You you've got the transfer of of money from to a younger generation.

[00:01:54]Trust me on this.

[00:01:56]All of this I mean it's not a coincidence that we've got the Clarity Act coming right now. This is all timed, folks.

[00:02:03]Wall Street's involved. They they know what's about to happen. And all of the sudden, all of the world's assets are going to be tokenized and and financial advisors are going to be allocating between 1 and 5% to crypto.

[00:02:18]This is not an accident, folks. This was probably planned for decades.

[00:02:24]And it's here now.

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[00:02:57]This is uh in Vegas right now. Bitcoin at Las Vegas has begun. XRP Las Vegas begins this week. Big week.

[00:03:06]And it looks like Ripple has decided to do some XRP advertising.

[00:03:12]Um that is the Is it called the Conrad?

[00:03:15]That they are uh it's called um What is it called? Cuz I've been there before. It's called uh something world.

[00:03:24]Um I'll think of it in a minute. But uh they they uh They They've got a raise the standard sign. They got the X and then they got XRP down here.

[00:03:36]And other people have seen it. This was sent to me by the official legend of the digital asset investor channel. You know him as Baron of Beach Street and that is him in the pool at one of the prior XRP Las Vegas drinking a beer. He's got the greatest mullet of all time in the XRP community.

[00:03:56]He sent me this video from somebody's hotel room, I guess.

[00:04:01]Now, I'll blow that up so you can see it. There's the Trump Hotel and that's the Conrad, I guess.

[00:04:14]Raise the standard.

[00:04:16]How cool is that? I think that's the first time that Ripple's done any major XRP advertising in Vegas.

[00:04:24]And then this guy saw everything at night, apparently. This is that those that building when it's lit up at night.

[00:04:31]Look at that. That is a beautiful thing.

[00:04:34]The um official legend made a comment about how we've come a long way and boy, have we. And Dom Quack says, "I can't wait to see you all in Vegas."

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[00:05:17]The great wealth transfer. Smoke has been all over this. Look at this graphic.

[00:05:22]The great wealth wealth transfer. I wanted to show you this part. In the next two decades, millennials are set to be the primary beneficiaries of what many refer to as the great wealth transfer in which older generations pass on trillions of in wealth to their children.

[00:05:36]This uh company projects the wealth transfer through 2045 will total total 84.4 trillion of which 73.6 trillion will be transferred to heirs and the remaining 11.9 trillion will be donated to charities.

[00:05:53]And those charities will also have financial advisors allocating to crypto, folks. Do you see what's about to happen?

[00:06:02]And then he had um this this was another uh thing that Smoke had put out. Digital assets are the most vibrant, most disruptive, most dynamic, most performant, and most transformative asset class available to mankind. And you better believe that these younger people are going to be staring right at it. This is from Galaxy Research, the great wealth transfer in crypto.

[00:06:25]It's very obvious that all of this has been timed.

[00:06:29]And then right in conjunction with that, Smoke had put out this tweet which is great.

[00:06:35]You know, I've often thought that 2017-18 was a test, an XRP test.

[00:06:41]This is important to remember about XRP's price. In 2017-18, XRP delivered nearly 350 times returns.

[00:06:48]Bitcoin returned 14 times. Ethereum, 100 times. That means XRP price increase was roughly 24 times steeper than Bitcoin's.

[00:06:57]And this happened before Ripple completed any of its major institutional acquisitions. Just early network momentum. Today, the the picture is completely different. Since 2017, Ripple's completed strategic acquisitions totaling 3 billion to build institutional grade infrastructure. Key moves include Metaco, Standard Custody, Hidden Road, Rail, G Treasury, Palisade.

[00:07:20]This creates much stronger foundation for durable price appreciation in XRP.

[00:07:24]Now add Swift, FedNow, DTCC integration into the equation and it becomes clear that XRP's past returns may have only been a preview or a test of what is what its future network value can become.

[00:07:40]You better believe it, folks.

[00:07:42]Now, I wanted to play you this and then I'm going to make a point.

[00:07:47]If If If you You know, if you're These are Bitcoin maxis and between the lines of everything they're saying is that you can't tokenize anything on Bitcoin.

[00:07:57]You know, if you're if you're in the crypto space and you're going, "Okay, what is there even that's exciting? What is there to buy? What is growing?"

[00:08:02]It is it is real world assets coming on chain, right? Um and I mean we've been talking about this a ton, but the obvious thing we have our problems in DeFi, right? We've had these hacks. It's non-stop. We've had a bunch of tokens that just don't do anything. Uh people just loop them and try to make money off them, but there's actually real value being created in in in crypto right now in in on chain finance. And that is bringing assets in the real world that people like and use and putting them on chain and making them more usable, right? So, if we look right now, US Treasuries are about to pass 15 billion.

[00:08:32]They're going through the like through the roof right now, right? Like these were just a couple weeks ago, this was under 13 billion. So, we're literally adding billions [clears throat] uh a week at the moment. Stablecoins doing the same. They're at all time highs every day right now. I think it's like 321 billion or 322 billion, whatever that is. Um and so, the numbers are starting to ramp up here. And I think what people need to remember about crypto or about blockchain is like this is infrastructure, right? We didn't really I don't think Bitcoin the purpose of of a blockchain is not necessarily to create net new assets, although that's what we focused on so much. But as I've said for I don't know, well over a year now and John, you've always hated this.

[00:09:11]Most of crypto's uninvestable. And it's because we make assets.

[00:09:16]Now, what's going unnoticed to an extent is the growth of real world asset tokenization on the XRP ledger. This came from Grok AI.

[00:09:26]XRP ledger's in explosive tokenized real world asset growth in 2025-2026 rising from a low base 25 to 50 million early 2025 to hundreds of millions by year end. Now hundreds of millions to over 2.5 billion as of late April 2026.

[00:09:43]Distributed asset value 537 million.

[00:09:46]Real asset value represented asset value 2.4 billion.

[00:09:51]Total 291 real um Year-over-year context, 2,200% growth in 2025.

[00:10:00]1.3 billion added in early 2026 alone surpassing all of 2025. 875% surge in activity in one reported 30-day period.

[00:10:11]The writing is on the wall, folks. Do you see it? Now, I wanted to point this out. This is that clip I played for you I played for you recently um of Monica Long saying that Bank of America called uh I think this was in 2025 and said, "We're ready.

[00:10:28]The banks are ready."

[00:10:30]And I just wanted to put that against what This is a picture I took at Bit- Bitcoin Las Vegas last year. This is a picture of a Bank of America building burning.

[00:10:41]This is the difference between the Bitcoin children and the XRP adults.

[00:10:47]It was never going to be down with banks. It was never going to be down with the government.

[00:10:53]Siding with regulators and being and trying to work with the regulators was the only thing from an adult perspective that was ever going to happen.

[00:11:02]Brad Garlinghouse tried to tell you a decade ago. And now what's happening?

[00:11:07]As we worked on as as they work on the Clarity Act, who are the Bitcoin people kissing up to and working with? Wall Street and the politicians.

[00:11:15]And whose pockets are the walls are the politicians in? Wall Street.

[00:11:19]That's how the game works.

[00:11:22]That's how adults think.

[00:11:24]Speaking of, this is was my favorite thing from XRP Las Vegas last year is the cows uh dancing through the Bitcoin um on the floor down there. They came from um uh what's the company? Is it Is it um Steak 'n Shake? I think they started uh using Bitcoin or something.

[00:11:48]But I said that was my favorite part. I hope they top it. Bring in the clowns.

[00:11:53]And then um this is um this is Kristen uh Smith who's with Solana now, but she's um I think she's also with Cynthia former CEO of the Blockchain Association. She's talking about the Clarity Act and how we need to get moving on some things. Listen to this.

[00:12:12]All of the pieces are there, but it takes a long time to get legislation through the Senate. Once it gets through the committee, if you recall with the Genius Act, it took about 4 weeks of floor time on the Senate in order to get the bill done. Floor time is is like a It's like It's like Bitcoin. It's like limited, right? Limited supply. And you really kind of need to get the bill out of committee by May in order to have enough time to get it through the floor before it starts to become very very scarce to have uh the senators in in Washington.

[00:12:43]I'll say it again. I've said it several times. Here's how this story ends. Trump has told Patrick Wood and the guys that are talking to all these banks that have been fighting all this and they've they've had Listen, you go in there and you do your best job job negotiating and tell them, "Don't make me have to come in the room." That's how this guy rolls.

[00:13:04]This thing's going to happen. He's not going to let banks or anybody else not get the legislation through so that he can hold it up and say, "See, I saved crypto."

[00:13:17]That's how this is going to go down.

[00:13:19]Wanted to show you this. Now, Jim Rickards who was a uh CIA contractor. I don't I think that's probably like the mafia. Once you're in, you're in.

[00:13:30]So, I would imagine he's still a contractor with these intelligence agencies. He's the guy If you remember, Jim Rickards is the guy who um was the advisor to the government when in in the '70s when they literally created the petrodollar. He was in the negotiations and the war gaming that went on uh when they talked the Saudis into making sure all oil was bought with US dollars.

[00:14:00]And that's why you have the standard of living you have to this day. Without that, you don't have it. I believe that crypto and probably more specifically XRP was brought in to bridge to the next 100 years or 200 years. That's why I That's why I believe that this is like I've said it many times. That's why I believe this is the investment of two lifetimes because it's that moment.

[00:14:29]And I think that it's Federal Reserve 2.0, petrodollar 2.0, whatever you want to call it.

[00:14:37]But it's I don't think it's a coincidence that the same guy, Jim Rickards, in recent days, I think twice he's brought up Ripple in the conversation about petrodollar 2.0. And I don't think that's an accident.

[00:14:53]It just so happens he's having another conversation about the petrodollar and what's going on with oil and Iran and all this. And the guy interviewing him for some reason brings up crypto. Now, Jim Rickards does not talk about Ripple in this clip or XRP or crypto. He avoids that topic.

[00:15:09]But the fact that it's brought up and keeps being brought up in this conversation tells you everything you need to know.

[00:15:16]So, here's a very interesting clip.

[00:15:18]Listen to what the guy says at the beginning. We're all seeing this war in terms of how does it proceed? Are we getting >> Right. Like uh intimations of the future from the Strait of Hormuz told as it were, whether it be crypto, whether it be the dollar, whether it be the yuan.

[00:15:34]Yeah, you're getting intimations, but the question is what does it mean? So, uh you're right. The Chinese holdings of US Treasury securities, that information publicly available. We all have access to it. The US Treasury produces a monthly report in spreadsheet form and you can look at country and security and so forth to see where it's going down.

[00:15:50]It has been going down a little, not massively, but yes, they have been selling treasuries. But the narrative around that is this is de-dollarization.

[00:15:58]This is the debasement trade. Get out of treasuries. Get out of the dollars. The end of the dollar, etc. That narrative is nonsense. They are selling them, but here's why. They're desperate for dollars. People talk about the dollar as a reserve currency. There are no reserve currencies. They are reserve assets denominated in a currency. The reserve assets are US Treasury securities. Yes, they're denominated in dollars, but they're not dollars. If you want dollars, you have to sell the treasuries and get the dollars. Get the cash. And then they're using the cash to prop up their own currency and to prop up their banks which have dollar loans which are going into default. So, when you see China selling treasuries, it doesn't mean they're dumping them. They wish they had more. What it means is that they're short of cash. And this So, let's outline it all. So, what do you have? You got this legislation about to happen. This is the other main reason it's going to happen is because this is national security. Because what happens once he gets this legislation, you get Meta, you get Amazon, you get Apple, you get X. They all start issuing their own stable coins. And what do they do with those stable coins? They buy treasuries.

[00:17:01]And then you're going to make the world interoperable with each other, China, Russia, all that. And you're going to need a neutral bridge asset in this crypto world. And which one could they choose? Which one has positioned positioned itself and it even put X in the name, which means neutral.

[00:17:22]And I mean, if you look at uh if you we've we've shown I've done videos on this before. Like XAU is gold.

[00:17:32]And so and it signifies not being controlled by any one country.

[00:17:41]That's what the decentralization stuff is all about where nobody controls it.

[00:17:45]It's open source.

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