{"content":"Could XRP Actually Hit $1,000 By 2025? It sounds crazy, but could XRP actually reach four digits next year? Jake Claver, a director of Digital Ascension Group, believes it not only can but needs to. If XRP is going to be the bridge asset for cross-border payment and financial settlement, it will need to be at $1,000 to support that liquidity in real time around the world and the sooner it happens, the better. Why Would XRP Need to Be So High? In a recent interview, Claver explained that for XRP to settle all of the unnecessarily excessive movement of money around the world, higher than where it is needs to be the value. It's logical because banks and institutional players aren't going to use XRP to transfer trillion dollar transactions with low value. That only creates transaction ineffectiveness and friction. Is Ripple Thinking Bigger? In addition, Claver believes Ripple has its sights on expansion beyond payments. According to Claver, Ripple has been establishing an entire ecosystem behind the scenes for this digital asset. They've purchased a crypto exchange, a broker-dealer and custody broker. They've established multi-national partnerships across the United States, Japan and Europe with SBI Holdings and Santander. Thus, it's not just a payment system. It wants to be the payment system of the future financial world. What About Decentralization? Many anti-XRP people point to why XRP is such a centralized transaction method, however, to Claver's note, the XRP Ledger is more decentralized than people assume. Essentially, while Ripple is one of many validators of transaction confirmations on the network, there are other educational institutions, banks and native US independent institutions which also are validators. Claver mentions jurisdictional discussions with these matters have the SEC involved; thus, this potential positive may bode well over time for a decentralized resonance with regulation. Will 2026 Bring More Clarity? $XRP ","images":["https://d2kdcqywr8ua22.cloudfront.net/uploadfile/article/blog/2025072025/07/27/aff76827e216f4980219212cd302f48a.png"],"tags":[],"tradingPairs":["XRP/USDT"],"quotearticleid":0}