Ripple CEO Walks Back $5 Trillion Crypto Marker Prediction, Unveils New Target
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Ripple, Brad Garlinghouse, has revised his earlier ambitious prediction on the crypto industry’s future market capitalization, acknowledging that he had underestimated the market’s potential surge. Ripple CEO Underpredicts Crypto Market Cap Appearing in a recent interview with Fox Business, Garlinghouse shed light on the growth potential of the cryptocurrency market as well as its performance since the beginning of the year. The Ripple CEO was questioned about his previous optimistic forecast for the crypto industry’s market capitalization, in which....
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Crypto pundit Vincent Van Code has explained what a $5 trillion Fed master account, which Ripple is eyeing, could mean for XRP. This comes as the Fed weighs rolling out skinny master accounts for crypto firms, which could also provide them access to the central bank’s payment rails. What A Fed Master Account For Ripple Could Mean For XRP In an X post, Vincent Van Code stated that a Fed master account for Ripple means that the company can hold its RLUSD backing balance with the Fed without counterparty risk. He further noted that the $5 trillion is a glimpse into how much RLUSD will be....
Ripple placed its treasury business at the center of a new XRP price prediction after promoting Ripple Treasury as a platform with full cash visibility with notable numbers. An analyst on X has since noted that those numbers, when run through a valuation model, point to an average price of at least $625 for XRP. […]
Prolonged but fruitless efforts to get regulators on the firm’s side seem to have exhausted Ripple’s patience as it eyes a potential IPO and fights a lawsuit.