🚨BREAKING: White House Crypto Chief Says “Bitcoin Is Not XRP” — and “Tens of Trillions Are Coming by The Year End” at Ripple Swell🇺🇸🚀
This might’ve been the most electric interview of @Ripple Swell 2025. Ripple CEO @bgarlinghouse sat across from @patrickjwitt Executive Director of the President’s Council of Advisers for Digital Assets, for a raw, high-level conversation that connected the dots between Washington, Ripple, and the next phase of crypto policy in America. Let's go over it 👇🏼
💥 “Bitcoin is not $XRP — and the market’s going to the tens of trillions.”
Brad asked Witt point-blank where crypto is headed next. Witt didn’t hesitate:
“Before the end of the year, the President wants the Market Structure Bill on his desk. After that, we’re talking about a market worth tens of trillions, with stablecoins proliferating across the globe.”
Then came the quote that turned heads:
“People need to understand — Bitcoin is not XRP. $XRP is not Ethereum. These are different assets serving different roles in the financial system.”
He described it as the decade when blockchain and traditional finance finally fuse, adding:
“The companies that will reshape the world of finance probably don’t even exist yet.”
Brad grinned: “Ripple’s been building the foundation for that moment.”
🗽 From crackdown to clarity — the U.S. flips the script
Witt didn’t sugarcoat the past:
“The previous administration turned crypto into a political issue. They thought if they buried it, it would disappear. It didn’t — it just flourished somewhere else.”
Now, he said, the mission is simple:
“President Trump wants to make the United States the dominant player in crypto again.”
And the playbook is already underway:
✅ The Genius Act — stabilized the stablecoin sector and restored confidence
🏛️ The Market Structure Bill — the next big one, targeting passage before year-end.
📈 Regulatory clarity = acquisition wave
Brad brought up Ripple’s buying spree — GTreasury, Palisade, and more.
Witt connected the dots:
“During the Biden years, there were almost no big crypto acquisitions. This quarter alone? Ninety-five. That’s what happens when you have regulatory certainty. Traditional institutions finally feel safe stepping in.”
He called it a “bullish indicator of maturity” — the moment when crypto stopped being speculative and started being structural.
⚙️ The White House Shutdown is Actually Helping Crypto
When Brad mentioned the record government shutdown, Witt laughed:
“It’s ironic, but it’s actually helping. Senators have fewer other meetings, so we’ve had more time to work with their staffs on crypto legislation.”
Instead of slowing progress, the shutdown gave the White House’s crypto council more direct access to lawmakers.
“We’re still full steam ahead — every day, morning to night,” Witt said.
🤝 On tribalism — “We either hang together, or we hang separately.”
Witt warned that division is a bigger risk than regulation itself:
“We’ll never get a perfect bill. But if we can get to 80% yes, we win. The industry needs unity — or it risks hanging separately.”
Brad agreed instantly:
“Exactly. Ripple’s whole mission has been about connection, not competition.”
“Once this framework is in place, the floodgates open. The industry is going to scale into the tens of trillions — and the United States will lead it.” 🚀
Today, Ripple is breaking into the $120T corporate treasury payments market with the $1B acquisition of GTreasury.
The past few years have reminded this industry why payments, first and foremost, is THE primary use case for crypto and blockchain. Payments are where Ripple first started for exactly these reasons – the infrastructure is complex, siloed and inefficient, but as we know, perfectly positioned to benefit from decentralized financial technologies.
Astounding amounts of cash are trapped in outdated payments systems, creating friction, unnecessary costs, and barriers to entering new markets. GTreasury has been serving some of the most well known brands for decades – and now together with Ripple, we’ll be able to help CFOs manage all their assets, include stablecoins, tokenized deposits, etc at scale around the world, as well as put their idle capital to work with repo markets via Hidden Road.
The opportunity is here, and we’re diving right in. It’s happening!
https://t.co/GCXS6QqNqt
Here we go…
Hashdex Nasdaq Crypto Index US ETF *approved* under SEC’s new generic listing standards.
Will now be able to own crypto assets beyond btc & eth.
Looks like xrp, sol, & xlm.
@bgarlinghouse@Ripple Brad @bgarlinghouse I pray 🙏🏾 @Ripple gets the banking license stops selling XRP to capitalize the @Ripple bank 🏦 flip the switch with the present NDA’s & these banking partners announce the savings & the freeing up of liquidity by using blockchain (XRPL) vs. using Swift 🚀🚀🚀
No such thing as the August doldrums at @Ripple…very excited to share that we’re acquiring @RailFinancial!
Ripple + Rail together will be THE go-to provider of stablecoin payments infrastructure for global financial institutions around the world. https://t.co/JzUoHjulZB
🚨JUST IN: @Ripple has been granted a U.S. patent for a groundbreaking trust-based system enabling instant cross-border payments!
This move strengthens Ripple’s position to challenge SWIFT, with #XRP at the core of next-gen global transaction speed.
🚨 BIG WEEK for Crypto
🟢 BlackRock: “Stablecoins are the future”
🟣 Binance lists $XDC
🟡 Tariffs DELAYED 90 days
🔻 Powell set to CUT interest rates
📜 Trump’s crypto report drops TOMORROW
#XRP#CryptoNews#Binance#CNF#XDC
@howardlutnick 😂😂😂 💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾 📈📈📈📈💰💰💰💰💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾 - H. Lutnick for Pres @SecScottBessent VP 2028 ; we need business people at the helm running America 🇺🇸 the business….
🚨 Brad Garlinghouse didn’t hold back 🚨
The #Ripple CEO dropped facts:
👉 The $XRP Ledger was built by early #Bitcoin engineers who saw its flaws... and aimed higher. 🔥
💬 “$BTC was the experiment. $XRP is the evolution.” 💥
Are we ready to face the truth? 🤔
🧵THREAD: #ISO20022 , #XRP & the Influencers LYING to You.
They say “ISO20022 doesn’t matter for crypto.”
That “XRP isn’t compliant.”
That “@Ripple has nothing to do with it.”
📺VIDEO: “ISO20022 Morons”
👀WATCH & READ📚
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