{"id":57019,"date":"2025-11-06T10:01:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T10:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=57019"},"modified":"2025-11-06T10:01:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T10:01:33","slug":"ripple-ceo-drops-truth-bomb-on-xrp-vs-rlusd-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=57019","title":{"rendered":"Ripple CEO Drops Truth Bomb On XRP Vs. RLUSD Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse moved to puncture speculation that the company\u2019s new US dollar stablecoin, RLUSD, has displaced XRP at the core of the company\u2019s strategy, telling Crypto in America reporter Eleanor Terrett that XRP remains foundational even as it routes transactions over multiple assets depending on corridor economics and customer needs.<\/p>\n

Ripple CEO Sets The Record Straight: XRP Vs. RLUSD<\/h2>\n

In a November 5 interview<\/a>, Terrett pressed Garlinghouse on social media debates over whether the launch of RLUSD and Ripple\u2019s push beyond cross-border payments have diluted XRP\u2019s role. Garlinghouse\u2019s response was unambiguous: \u201cXRP sits at the center of everything Ripple does.\u201d He framed the recent discourse as a byproduct of \u201ca lot of misinformation and sometimes disinformation in crypto Twitter,\u201d adding that narratives suggesting Ripple has \u201cgiven up on XRP\u201d \u201cjust don\u2019t make sense.\u201d<\/p>\n

Garlinghouse situated XRP within a broader, multi-rail payments<\/a> and treasury stack, pointing GTreasury <\/a>and Ripple payments. In his telling, the firm\u2019s routing logic is asset-agnostic and driven by corridor specifics\u2014currency pair, liquidity depth, cost, and reliability\u2014rather than ideology. \u201cSome of those go through stablecoins. Some of it goes through XRP,\u201d he said. \u201cWe want to deliver the best possible product to a customer at the best price, and sometimes that may be a stablecoin. Sometimes it may not.\u201d<\/p>\n

In one of the interview\u2019s most striking disclosures, Garlinghouse said that during the \u201cfirst part of \u201923,\u201d Ripple\u2019s institutional payment activity was significant enough that \u201cRipple was minting 20 percent of all USDC.\u201d He presented that figure as evidence of a pragmatic approach in which Ripple used what worked for specific institutional flows: \u201cWe also used USDC. We also used XRP.\u201d The point, he argued, is that customers buy solutions, not tokens, and the firm\u2019s job is to select the \u201cright technologies\u201d for defined problems. \u201cWe are not XRP maximalists. There\u2019s going to be different chains for different solutions and different technologies.\u201d<\/p>\n

Garlinghouse tied XRP\u2019s role to its performance characteristics\u2014\u201cvery scalable, very fast and very inexpensive on a per transaction basis\u201d\u2014but he avoided absolutism, acknowledging that those attributes make XRP \u201cgood for some things and probably less good for other things.\u201d<\/p>\n

The presence of RLUSD<\/a> in Ripple\u2019s toolkit does not negate XRP\u2019s value proposition, he suggested; rather, it expands the company\u2019s ability to optimize routing. In corridors where a fiat-denominated stablecoin provides better pricing or liquidity conditions, flows can shift there; where XRP\u2019s speed-to-finality and low unit costs are decisive, XRP can carry the traffic.<\/p>\n

Crucially, Garlinghouse framed market share as secondary to total throughput growth across Ripple\u2019s platforms. He said the objective is to scale from \u201ctens of billions of dollars of payment transactions to hundreds of billions\u2026 to trillions,\u201d and that XRP\u2019s success tracks the overall pie. \u201cIf XRP doesn\u2019t have 100 percent of that pie, but the pie is growing very quickly, like that\u2019s great. I\u2019m happy. That\u2019s a really good place to be.\u201d<\/p>\n

At press time, XRP traded at $2.32.<\/p>\n

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Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse moved to puncture speculation that the company\u2019s new US dollar stablecoin, RLUSD, has displaced XRP at the core of the company\u2019s strategy, telling Crypto in America reporter Eleanor Terrett that XRP remains foundational even as it routes transactions over multiple assets depending on corridor economics and customer needs. Ripple CEO Sets […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-57019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}