Ripple used XRP Community Day to tighten its message: XRP is not an accessory to the business, it’s the organizing principle and the company is positioning its product stack, regulatory posture, and institutional roadmap around that premise.
XRP Community Day Highlights
CEO Brad Garlinghouse went straight for the ceiling. “There will be a trillion dollar crypto company, I don’t doubt that for a second,” he said. “I think Ripple has the opportunity to be that company, and maybe there’ll be more than one.” The framing matters because it’s not a token price call — it’s a scale argument about where regulated rails, liquidity, and enterprise distribution could concentrate as XRP plugs further into legacy finance.
Policy was the second major pillar. Garlinghouse put odds on the table for US legislation, predicting a “75%” chance the CLARITY Act will be “very close to getting signed by the end of April.”
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Garlinghouse also tried to reconcile market volatility with institutional appetite, pointing to ETF flow behavior during a rough tape. “I believe in a multi-chain world. Even last week, when there was massive carnage going on in the market, there was positive XRP ETF inflows of $30M or $40M,” he said. “Public markets are keen to invest in crypto. Customers want it.”
The compliance posture was framed less as defensive and more as a competitive moat by Garlinghouse. “We want to be the most regulated, compliant, because we’re focused on institutional flows—that is the priority,” Garlinghouse said. “The OCC charter makes it very clear that RLUSD is a leader under the GENIUS Act, it cements our leading position.” In Ripple’s telling, regulatory credentials aren’t a cost center; they’re how you win mandates, counterparties, and distribution in the parts of the market that actually move size.
He also hinted at some major progress on the Fed Masters Account. “Now, there’s been a lot of speculation about what we could do in the future,” Garlinghouse said. “There’s been some commentary about a Fed Master Account, which we do think is compelling. And there’s things we may do in the future that I’m not gonna go into today.” He then anchored the point in trajectory rather than rumor: conditional OCC approval and engagement, he said, represent “massive progress relative to where we started this journey.”
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On XRP itself, Garlinghouse delivered the cleanest thesis statement of the event: “XRP is the north star for Ripple. It’s our purpose.” He tied Ripple Payments, Ripple Prime, Ripple Treasury, custody, and RLUSD to a single objective: “how we can drive utility, trust, liquidity around XRPL.”
President Monica Long expanded that into an execution roadmap: “We’re rewinding the tape back to the founding of the company, like XRP and the Ledger are our reason for being,” she said. “So we call it our North Star, like that this is kind of what guides us in a lot of our product strategy and decision-making.”
From there, she outlined three institutional-flavored pushes: bringing more licensed payments flow onto the XRPL DEX, a “payments credit” concept that matches payment-provider financing needs with XRP holders seeking yield via a proposed lending protocol amendment, and growing custody demand as banks move past safekeeping and into tokenization of deposits, funds, and traditional securities.
At press time, XRP traded at $1.38.
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