The total supply of XRP tokens is capped at 100 billion, ensuring that no more than 100 billion XRP tokens will ever be created. As of now, approximately 52% of the total supply is in circulation, with the remaining tokens held in escrow accounts by Ripple Labs.
Currently priced at $2.54 per token, transferring $1 billion via the XRP Ledger (XRPL) would require 393,700,787.4 XRP. However, if XRP were valued at $100,000 per token, only 10,000 tokens would be needed for the same transaction.
You might be thinking, "That would mean the XRP ecosystem, if fully distributed, would be worth $100 trillion... IMPOSSIBLE!" But let's delve into some numbers. Every day, approximately $5.7-6 trillion is transacted in the foreign exchange (FOREX) market. Annually, this equates to $2.1 quadrillion. If just 5% of that volume were moved across the XRPL, it would amount to $105 trillion. And this doesn't even account for the tokenization of stocks or real estate, which also see trillions in volume.
The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) system processes an average of nearly 50 million messages per day. While the exact monetary value of these transactions isn't publicly disclosed, it's estimated to be in the trillions of dollars daily. It's important to note that SWIFT and FOREX serve different functions in the financial world. So, in addition to FOREX moving $2.1 quadrillion annually and SWIFT handling another quadrillion, that's a massive volume of transactions. We now know that the XRPL ledger has recently been connected to SWIFT.
So, is a $100,000 XRP a pipe dream? Far from it. Bitcoin has hovered around $100,000 based on user sentiment. XRP represents an infrastructure of value.
Currently priced at $2.54 per token, transferring $1 billion via the XRP Ledger (XRPL) would require 393,700,787.4 XRP. However, if XRP were valued at $100,000 per token, only 10,000 tokens would be needed for the same transaction.
You might be thinking, "That would mean the XRP ecosystem, if fully distributed, would be worth $100 trillion... IMPOSSIBLE!" But let's delve into some numbers. Every day, approximately $5.7-6 trillion is transacted in the foreign exchange (FOREX) market. Annually, this equates to $2.1 quadrillion. If just 5% of that volume were moved across the XRPL, it would amount to $105 trillion. And this doesn't even account for the tokenization of stocks or real estate, which also see trillions in volume.
The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) system processes an average of nearly 50 million messages per day. While the exact monetary value of these transactions isn't publicly disclosed, it's estimated to be in the trillions of dollars daily. It's important to note that SWIFT and FOREX serve different functions in the financial world. So, in addition to FOREX moving $2.1 quadrillion annually and SWIFT handling another quadrillion, that's a massive volume of transactions. We now know that the XRPL ledger has recently been connected to SWIFT.
So, is a $100,000 XRP a pipe dream? Far from it. Bitcoin has hovered around $100,000 based on user sentiment. XRP represents an infrastructure of value.
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