DTCC GOES LIVE! XRP TO $10,000?? BEFORE TRUMP DEADLINE!!

[00:00:00]Today's the day we've been waiting for, folks. Well, technically it was yesterday, but today's the real day. I need you to understand what actually just went down, right? The DTCC, Depository, Trust, and Clearing, the entity that serves every well, virtually every single stock trade in the US every day. Their tokenization pilots live.

[00:00:20]We're talking real securities, real participants, real blockchains, all live today. And I don't know if you've been paying attention, some of these cryptos, they're up over 15%. That's right. We have a fullscale rollout of this going down in October of this year. The T+1 US equity settlement upgrade that went live back in 2024. That was the first step.

[00:00:41]This is the next one. You know what the destination is? T plus0 instant realtime finality. And there is exactly one one major crypto asset that already delivers 3 to 4 second settlements at fractions of a penny anywhere in the world. That's right, Ripple. the company behind XRP.

[00:01:00]They hold and they hold an active seat over in the UK for their tokenization platform and they were part of the transatlantic task force. You see where this is going? I do. Looking at the numbers, the scale of what's actually happening here because this is a lot bigger than most people think. The DTCC 100 trillion in US equities every year.

[00:01:22]Every stock trade that happens on the New York Stock Exchange, on the NASDAQ, every major US exchange, the settlement of that trade, it goes through the DTCC, full stop, right? That's how it works.

[00:01:34]When they move towards onchain tokenized settlement, this isn't a niche product or an experimental use case. That is going to be the backbone of American Capital Markets moving on to your blockchain infrastructure. Now, T+1 settlement, the upgrade that cut your equity settlements from 2 days all the way to one day. That went live back in 2024. That was phase one, and most people don't even realize it. Today's tokenization pilot, that is phase 2. The logical endpoint, it's t plus0, instant realtime finality. The XRP ledger already does that. 3 to 4 seconds for the fraction of a penny. It's been doing it for over 12 years at institutional scale. And the reason Ripple isn't on the DTCC's board is not ceremonial, right? Companies do not, I repeat, they do not get invited to sit on the DTCC infrastructure initiatives because the community loves the project. The community loves the token. They don't give a crap about that. They get invited because they have the technology that the system needs. Ripple Treasury and Ripple Prime are the settlement layer.

[00:02:39]That is the infrastructure being positioned for exactly this transition.

[00:02:44]The board seat is not some participation trophy, folks. It is a vendor relationship. That's it's that simple.

[00:02:50]Which moves us to this. Here's what I want you to understand about the timing.

[00:02:54]Because you're going to tell me the DTCC goes live and you got the UK task force publishing their report at the same time. Come on now. I wasn't born yesterday. Remember July 13th when the UK's HM Treasury published their inaugural report of its wholesale digital markets task force? I do. 58 firms. All firms that have been linked to and are still currently working with Ripple. From Black Rockck to Goldman to JP to Morgan Stanley to Euroclar.

[00:03:25]Coincidence? I don't think so. What do you think? Comment below. Is this a coincidence? Are we all crazy? Was the DTCC trolling us with that little video and all the XRP people on Twitter? Are we nuts? I don't think so. Look, the mandate is live tokenization use case and it's starting with repo markets. We just heard from Jazzy Cooper. Ripple markets are going live this year on the XRP ledger and the UK they're looking for a 12 month deployment clock which is already running. Meaning by this time next year they're going to be live and then after that 2 days later after the UK announced this task force what happened? Well the DTCC went live with this tokenization pilot in the United States. So you got the US and you got the UK moving simultaneously. This is a coordinated global shift towards onchain financial infrastructure. It's happening in real time across two of the largest capital markets in the world. And Ripple, they're embedded in both. They were invited to both. Now, I know what people are going to say. This is just coincidence. They invite Ripple, but they never do anything with Ripple.

[00:04:29]That's not how it works. That is not how it works. they wouldn't invite him if they weren't going to use it. Now, I want to take a step back for a moment and I want to give you some context here. Brad Garlinghouse, he confirmed publicly that when the SEC filed its lawsuit against Ripple in December of 2020 that him and co-founder Chris Lawson, they sat down, they had a nice stake dinner and they spoke about shutting the company down, not as a negotiating posture, as a real option.

[00:04:57]Their thinking was distribute all the XRP to the shareholders on a prora basis, close the companies, hundreds of jobs gone, and the SEC can no longer claim that Ripple controls a security because Ripple no longer exists. Now, me and you wouldn't have got it because we're not shareholders. We're XRP holders, but we're not Ripple holders.

[00:05:15]But what did they do? Well, they decided to fight. We all know how the fight went. It was long. It was boring. I don't want to say it was stressful. I think it was more of a pain in the ass than anything. It got over with. And now XRP and Bitcoin are the only two assets in the United States currently that have legal clarity. And as we fast forward today, six years later, after a company almost shut down because of a lawsuit, they now hold an active board seat on the DTC's tokenization initiative.

[00:05:44]They're now part of the UK's Treasury 58 firm task force alongside Black Rockck and JP Morgan. BNY Melon, a $53 trillion custody infrastructure, holds Ripple stable coins, and they have tokenized repo infrastructure already deployed with DBS Bank and Franklin Teleton. If you needed a before and after picture of what winning looks like, that's it right there. And on top of everything that is happening with the DTCC and the UK task force, the Clarity Act, it's still in its final legislation window. Now look, they're back from their little break. We have until August 7th to get this thing passed. Now, Cynthia Lumen said the text is ready. She expects a vote to happen.

[00:06:27]Now, here's what I've been saying on this. Force a vote. It's that simple.

[00:06:31]Force a vote. Get it on the floor. Force a vote. You need to figure out who's voting no. You need to figure out why they're voting no. And then you have from whenever the vote happens, so say next week or within the next two weeks, then you have two weeks to go back, change the language, and try to squeeze one more vote in before the 7th of August. That's what needs to happen. And you know what? If ethics is the hold up, just put that on the afterburner. Just shove it to the side for a second. get the Clarity Act passed so the institutions can start moving in so we can get more ETFs, more products, more companies coming to the US and deal with the ethics at some point in 2027. I don't see what's so difficult about this. That is the most logical thing to do. Put ethics to the side and revisit it later. Now, let me lay out three dominoes for you here. Domino one live right now. DTCC tokenization pilot is active. real securities. The UK's Treasury Task Force launched 2 days ago.

[00:07:30]T+1's already running October 2026, the full rollout target. Ripple's embedded in both. The infrastructure is being tested in production as you watch the videos. Domino 2, it's your four-week window. The Clarity Act, Trump is pushing it. He actually has a meeting about the Clarity Act either today or tomorrow. He's trying to get it pushed through. The White House is out there calling it critical. Coinbase told us that we're on the one yard line. Black Rockck is warning publicly that America cannot afford to delay. And in domino three is your global macro environment.

[00:08:02]We're talking rate policy. We're talking your uh geopolitical stability. The global capital flows that determine how much money is available to actually move into risk assets. Now, this one is the least controllable. I'm going be honest about it. But as the far as the first two full, they create momentum. momentum that makes that third domino a lot easier to push. And when all three are down simultaneously, the DTCC's full roll out, the Clarity Act sign, and your macro environment becomes cooperative.

[00:08:34]Folks, XRP's utility does not need a new story. That's 1.7 trillion that has already moved on the XRP ledger. With over 100 plus Swift banks already on Ripple's technology with the 12 years of proven deployment, all of that becomes the foundation for a price move that actually reflects the infrastructure reality for your first time. I've always told you price is a lagging indicator.

[00:08:59]Price will catch up. It will catch up.

[00:09:01]Which gets us over to this because there's one more development. Of course there is. Swift. They're running a 24/7 tokenized crossber payments blockchain infrastructure right now. This is word for word exactly what Ripple has been doing for over a decade. Not a similar concept, the same exact use case.

[00:09:19]Tokenized value transfer 24/7 always on.

[00:09:23]But guess what? They have nothing to do with settlement. They didn't do anything about settlement about the final leg.

[00:09:30]They still rely on nostal accounts. They still rely on $27 trillion in trap capital. All Swift does is the messaging part, the settlement layer of this. It all comes down to the individual banks.

[00:09:45]It's all about the banks. And guess what? The banks can decide to settle however they want. Swift can send the message. Bank at the bottom can settle through XRP if they want. There is no Swift says what we can and cannot do when it comes to settlement. It doesn't work like that. So if JP Morgan wants to settle money coming over from Japan, XRP, they can do that. If SBI wants to settle money coming over from PNC Bank and they want to use XRP, they can do that. The settlement leg all depends on the bank. There's over a 100 banks in Swift that are working with Ripple. Now, I wonder if those 100 banks are going to use XRP because they're using Swift for the message. They're not using Ripple for the message. So what are they going to be using Ripple for? That's the exact question that we should be asking. Which leads me over to this. In 2016, right before I got into crypto, there were genuine questions about whether crypto would be made illegal, whether it would still be around. In 2020, we had the lawsuit. There was a lot of questions about both Ripple, the company, and XRP.

[00:10:49]Well, guess what? All those questions are answered. The lawsuit's gone. XRP is a commodity. XRP ETFs are live in trading. And that legal risk that was over our heads for years, it's gone. And now we got the DTCC going live with tokenization. You got the UK's HM Treasury launching its task force with 58 of the most powerful financial institutions on the planet. The Clarity Act is on the one yard line. Look, it's about to get real. October, pay attention. Pay attention to what this full roll out looks like. Pay attention to when the Clarity Act gets passes. We are so close to the greatest bull run of our lifetimes. And guess what? All you got to do is hold. I hope you enjoyed.

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