Picture the giddy, bespectacled Brad Garlinghouse, Ripple’s ringmaster, standing atop a trembling stage at the XRPL Apex, waving his bejewelled pointer in the general direction of the banking monolith SWIFT (a gentle dinosaur, equal parts telegram operator and sleepwalker). “See there?” he grandly proclaims, “14% of that lumbering creature’s traffic—ours! To be devoured, digit by delicious digit, by our sharp-toothed XRP by the year 2030.” The crowd gasps, as well they might; a whole 14%! Had he said ‘15’, I suppose the world’s stock exchanges might have spontaneously combusted.
But allow me this sly parenthesis, dear reader: it’s liquidity that animates this entire carnival, not those dusty telegrams SWIFT so loves to send. Garlinghouse preens; he knows that the real seduction in finance is liquidity, not the limp handshake of messaging. If XRP rides the liquidity wave—how it will surf! Picture an altcoin in a striped bathing suit and a dazzling smile, flying high—not on wings, but capital flows.
Ripple, the puppet-master, wagers its precious XRP on pilfering SWIFT’s cargo because, in their world, blockchains are not just fast and furious; they’re downright fabulous. SWIFT, meanwhile, remains a mailman in a digital Ferrari showroom, hurriedly sorting telegrams while the party rages on blockchain boulevards.
Counselor John Deaton, who once composed a now-vanished soliloquy on X (even birds regret their tweets), mused on what a 14% heist would look like for XRP. SWIFT shuffles $5 trillion per day—astronomical, yes, but also well-above the allowed carry-on size. Fourteen percent of that is a measly $700 billion daily, or $175 trillion per annum. Deaton, perhaps struck with stage fright, declined to play psychic and offer a price. Quelle surprise.
Yet, from the crowd, Fruition, another XRP devotee, produced a napkin math worthy of a Dostoevskian fever dream: SWIFT moves $150 trillion yearly, thus 14% translates to $21 trillion. By their calculation, this means shoveling $21 trillion through approximately 58 billion sprightly XRP tokens. If you’re doing the math at home, this lands us at $357 per XRP—the kind of triple-digit daydream that makes Maximalists giddy and math teachers weep.
Enter, stage left, the USDC: Circle’s buttoned-down stablecoin waltzing elegantly onto the XRP Ledger, clutching a press release and murmuring sweet nothing about DeFi liquidity and settlements. Circle claims that every XRPL user can now press USDC into service for payments or as a sacrificial lamb in infrastructure apps. The crowd, suitably caffeinated, emits polite applause.
Enter “Moon Lambo”—yes, really, for only in crypto could such a sobriquet bear gravitas. Moon Lambo, a sage with diamond hands, helpfully expounds: USDC’s arrival on XRPL is simply smashing for the network’s total value locked, which, as any seer knows, presages higher XRP prices. Even better: every USDC transaction now siphons a morsel of XRP as gas—a service fee, or perhaps a token tribute tossed into the blockchain abyss.
And currently? XRP lounges at a brisk $2.15 per unit, up a modest 2% since yesterday’s tea. Momentum stirs on CoinMarketCap, as everyone refreshes the page and wonders when their yacht—metaphorical or otherwise—will be delivered.
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2025-06-14 16:20