XRP: This Is REAL LIFE?!

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[00:00:00]Hello, this is Matt on the Moon Lambo channel. I got to tell you, this feels to me like a rather surreal moment. As somebody that's been here for almost an entire decade in the XRP community, having never sold an XRP scene uh XRP in my entire life, seeing all of the extremes price-wise for XRP, I've held XRP as low as 10. I've held it as high as the all-time high of $3.65 and everything in between for almost a freaking decade. I've been through the lawsuit uh where we were told that we should expect XRP was going to be found to be an illegal security in and of itself and that it would then ultimately fall to the top 10 and uh end up being worth exactly $0.

[00:00:38]And so many of you listening have been through the same thing or or big chunks of that yourselves. We've been through hell and back. And so to see all of that XRP come out on the other side of this better fort because it's got legal clarity ending up with additional adoption and now the war on crypto is over in the United States the largest the largest capital market on the entire planet. It's just amazing to see what's happening to me. This truly is a surreal moment. How is this real life? Well, it's real life because we were right all along and justice has been done. All of these things had to happen uh for us to be in this position. But it couldn't be more obvious. XRP is absolutely dominated. And the data just proves that. This isn't solely my opinion. It's the data says, "Hey, XRP has won." And I I'd argue for multiple use cases easily, but for the ones that's the hot topic of the day right now, um XRP is towards the top of the list. And no coin uh no blockchain will be the uh you know the the onesizefits-all for whatever any use case is going to be in all likelihood.

[00:01:48]And here we do have multiple coins that are being used for instance for tokenization of real world assets, real world financial assets. But XRP is at the top of the it's very close to the top list. It's like hanging out right up there. And with a 14-year track record and seeing this, I mean, I I'd be shocked if XRP does not continue to dominate this particular use case for a number of reasons. Because frankly, if you're somebody that wants to tokenize on a chain, you want a chain that's old.

[00:02:19]You want a chain that's old because you know that it's been battle tested. You want a chain that's as old as possible so that you know, I mean, if you're talking the case of XRP, it's almost 14 years old. People have been trying to hack it and destroy it for 14 years just about and they've failed and it it's and it's up. It just runs. It just works.

[00:02:38]It's great for payments. It has the world's first ever built-in decentralized exchange. That's that's what firms that are tokenizing stuff, that's what they want. And it the transactions are in real time effectively. And the transactions are like a thousandth of a penny in terms of cost. So cheap they might as well be free. uses almost no energy for any transaction.

[00:02:58]It's perfect for this use case. So, I got to tell you, it's not a surprise that we're seeing this. We in the XRP community always knew or well, we didn't technically know, but we firmly believed in an environment where there's a level playing field, XRP just thrives, but we had we had to let time pass to see it.

[00:03:14]But it's crazy. So, look at the headline here from the crypto basic. XRP emerges as key player in $7 billion plus global global tokenized commodity sector with 26% share. Now, I'm going to run through this with you because the numbers truly are staggering. But just to show you how quick this has developed, it's like staggering the degree to which this has scaled. The dollar figures are insane.

[00:03:39]The percentage increases equally insane, if not more insane. For instance, take a look at this headline. It's from Yahoo Finance. I shared this article from 247 Wall Street. And this is from January 8th of this year, 2026. Is titled, "XRP's real world asset tokenization surged 2,200% in 2025. Can it 10x again in 2026?" And so the data here, this is the key takeaway. The XRP ledger tokenized assets grew from $24.7 million worth of tokenized assets on the entire XP blockchain. 24.7 million to 567.9 million. Again, from about 24 million to about 567 million in the calendar year of 2025.

[00:04:28]That's a huge jump. And part of that of course is also because you know traditional finance and institutions they figured out actually it really makes a lot of sense to be tokenizing stuff on public blockchains for the reasons I keep talking about on the channel. Uh you know mutable blockchain um obviously lowcost real time real time transactions you know taking out the middleman it's just it's just there and so we have seen that shift and we're going to keep seeing that it's just going to get bigger and bigger and bigger but take a look at this. So, here we are. This is from May 3rd. So, what like uh just over a week ago. Look at this headline. XRP Ledger just tokenized $3 billion in real world assets. So, we were at 20 24 million last year. Now, a little over a year later, we are at three billion. We ended last year at what it say 567. Yeah, 567 million. That was the end of 2025. Here we are less than half year later. went from 567 million to over three billion as of that article, but it's even higher now. Take a look at this. We are now at $3.6 billion.

[00:05:40]That puts the XRP ledger at number five.

[00:05:44]Out of all blockchains in existence, there are tens of thousands of coins blockchains tracked by Coin Market Cap and Live Coin Watch. Tens of thousands.

[00:05:55]XRP is number five for this for this particular use case. Yeah, we picked the winner. This will ultimately drive I firmly believe drive much more investment into the XRP ecosystem because XRP is required for every single one of these transactions.

[00:06:12]So if you want to invest in the crypto space, might you invest in XRP if you think, huh, well this probably isn't going away because it's required for all of these use cases. Don't you think that people are going to figure that out? I I think people have figured that out. I mean, that's why I'm here. Is that why you're here? Probably. It's probably one of the reasons, right? I would be willing to guess for most of you anyway.

[00:06:32]Well, it's true for everyone else, too, because that's just rational. That's logical. So, it's amazing to see this.

[00:06:38]So, then you get to this uh this is the new article. XRP emerges as key player in 7 billion plus global tokenized commodity sector with 26% share. Uh XRP now accounts for more than 26% of the total global tokenized commodity market, becoming the second largest network in the sector. The XRP ledger's recent dominance growth comes on the back of an additional $895 million added to the JMW product from Just token hosted on the network, pushing its shares from 15% to 26% overnight. That's right, folks. The XRP ledger for this entire segment makes up 26%.

[00:07:21]This is the thing that wasn't even being discussed a couple years ago. I mean, outside of, you know, like the XRP community and maybe some other crypto communities, almost nobody was talking about it. And here it's live. It's not a science experiment. It's happening and it's growing like gang busters just intensely.

[00:07:38]Piece continues. This is according to data source from the RWA analytics platform RWAXYZ.

[00:07:44]For context, the entire global tokenized commodity market has grown to $7.7 billion at press time, reflecting increasing momentum and interest in RWA tokenization, one of the most bullish narratives in recent times. This market was worth a mere $1 billion in early 2025, but grew to $4.2 billion by the end of the year. This year alone, it has added $3.5 billion within five months, leading to the current $7.7 billion figure. Of this total, the XRP ledger accounts for exactly $2.043 billion, representing 26% of the global market. Folks, that is absolutely astonishing and it's just going to keep growing. This is a real thing that is genuinely useful. Tokenizing financial assets just makes sense. And this is one more thing that will, I believe, absolutely help to ensure the long-term viability of XRP and the XRP ledger. And as I reported, in case you missed this and um and if not, quick refresher here.

[00:08:53]I I want to make sure as many people as possible are aware of this. JP Morgan, one of the largest freaking banks on the planet in conjunction with Mastercard.

[00:09:01]Yes, that Mastercard, the only Mastercard on the planet, they worked with Ripple and Ono Finance utilizing the XRP ledger to tokenize a treasury spec specifically and they worked in conjunction in and taking a flow from blockchain to traditional finance specifically utilizing the XRP ledger. And I reported on this a couple days or so ago. And so just to to think that one of the largest banks on the planet, they could have chosen any blockchain on the planet and they chose the XRP ledger. Doesn't that tell you something? And not that they won't dabble with other chains. And this I I admit like this is a pilot. Maybe it's not going to go anywhere. Maybe it'll never develop at scale. But doesn't that tell you something that Mastercard and one of the largest banks on the planet when they're looking to tokenize moving into the future, they're looking to the XRP ledger. Doesn't that tell you like maybe, hey, we're on the right track here? Maybe, hey, we're right about this tokenization thing and the XRP ledger absolutely should continue to be considered for this. Well, absolutely.

[00:10:04]And so, I don't want to go into further detail on this story because I already made a whole video covering it. I just wanted to highlight this is absolutely astonishing here. And I do believe that this type of thing will drive actual value to the XRP ledger in terms of market price as the years pass. Maybe not immediately when the news passes, but because these things are real.

[00:10:24]Again, I'll repeat, as I this is my belief. As people and businesses and institutions continue to jump into the crypto space, they will increasingly be interested in XRP and the XRP ledger because it does stuff. This is at the core of my investment thesis. Utility matters and will win the day. It's not about XRP being used as just as a bridge currency in and of itself. You got to get past that. That that it is. It is.

[00:10:48]Don't get me wrong. That's a real use case. But that's not the only thing that should be considered or is considered.

[00:10:53]I'm telling you, if there's utility, people will feel safe investing in the chain where there's utility because they they will have high confidence the coin's not going away. The chain's not going away because specifically the coin because it's required for all the transactions. That's the way the XRP ledger is coded. So for every single one of these transactions including this uh this pilot with JP Morgan and Mastercard and Ripple and Ono Finance XRP is required for that for the for the tokenization itself and for each and every transaction and for everything that is tokenized here. So when I was going through this story here with the 26% share 7 billion plus global tokenized commodity sector XRP itself is required for literally every single transaction in here and for anything that's tokenized on the XRP ledger. So the more stuff that gets tokenized on the ledger, the more useful XRP is, the more over a span of years and decades, it's just going to continue to drive price on top of every single other use case that we've been covering and talking about for years and years and years. So yeah, I think we done picked the winner. Son, I am not a financial adviser. You should not buy or sell anything because of anything I say are right. That would be a very, very, very bad idea. Until next time, to the moon Lambo.