Investment Manager’s Bold Prediction: XRP Poised to Dominate the Trillion-Dollar Sector
Forget the quiet whispers—a major investment manager just placed a billion-dollar bet on a single crypto asset to eat Wall Street's lunch.
The Trillion-Dollar Target
Cross-border payments. It's the sector where legacy banks move money at a snail's pace for absurd fees. The prediction is clear: XRP, built for speed and settlement, is engineered to bypass that entire creaky system.
Why This Isn't Just Hype
This isn't about meme-driven pumps. It's about utility meeting institutional adoption. The underlying tech—a decentralized ledger that validates in seconds—cuts out the middlemen. That's the kind of efficiency that makes CFOs sit up, even if they still don't trust Bitcoin.
The Finance World's Cynical Shrug
Of course, traditional finance will scoff. They always do—right before they start filing for patents on the very thing they mocked. Remember when blockchain was a 'solution looking for a problem'? Now every major bank has a digital assets task force, mostly staffed by people who still think a 'gas fee' is related to their car.
The race isn't for the fastest blockchain; it's for the one that becomes the plumbing. And one firm is betting the plumbing blueprint belongs to XRP.
Canary Capital CEO Predicts XRP Will Dominate RWAs
During an interview, the investment manager opined that XRP will be the leading token for real-world assets, based on Ripple’s moves over the last two years. He noted that the crypto firm has done a great job of integrating the XRP Ledger (XRPL) into many transactions and into Wall Street, which has led to institutional adoption.
The Canary Capital CEO further noted that the XRP Ledger is moving assets such as stablecoins, including Ripple’s RLUSD stablecoin, and other tokenized real-world assets. Notably, Ondo Finance has also tokenized its U.S. treasury fund (OUSG) on the XRPL, while Ripple has partnered with Securitize to add RLUSD access for BlackRock’s BUIDL fund.
Furthermore, Ripple partnered with Archax and UK-based asset manager abrdn to introduce the first tokenized money market fund on the XRP Ledger. There are also plans for the network to get a tokenized gold upgrade, even as demand for precious metals rises. It is also worth noting that Ripple has previously predicted that the XRP Ledger could dominate the real-world assets industry, putting XRP at the heart of the industry, as McClurg has also predicted.
Interestingly, McClurg’s prediction comes as the XRP ETFs draw institutional investors into the altcoin’s ecosystem. These ETFs have been a success since their launch, recording only one net outflow since November. Coincidentally, McClurg’s Canary Capital is currently the largest XRP ETF issuer, with $374 million in total net assets, according to SoSoValue data.
New Features To Onboard TradFi Onto The XRPL
Ripple and XRP Ledger developers continue to work on introducing new features on the network to attract traditional finance (TradFi) institutions. XRPL validator VET recently revealed that compliance features for TradFi are coming to the network. This includes on-chain compliance tools such as KYC, AML, and other credentials, which will be used by lending protocols, as well as the XRPL DEX and the Permissioned DEX.
Meanwhile, Ripple developers also described Permissioned Domains, which are part of the amendments, as a game-changer for the XRP Ledger because they will bring institutional-grade controls to a public network, without sacrificing the trade-offs of a private chain. The developers further noted that this will set the stage for financial institutions to engage in permissioned flows on a fast, scalable, and resilient blockchain network such as the XRPL.
At the time of writing, the xrp price is trading at around $2.06, down in the last 24 hours, according to data from CoinMarketCap.
