Ripple CEO Sees XRP as Institutional Gold Standard Within 5 Years

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse sees XRP continuing to emerge as the institutional gold standard for crypto rails over the next five years. David Schwartz envisions mass retail adoption, with blockchain supporting how people manage money, receive payments, invest, lend, and borrow. Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse and board member and CTO emeritus David Schwartz outlined their five-year XRP outlooks in a video taken at Swell, shared on Oct. 28. Asked where he saw XRP and Ripple in five years, Garlinghouse answered: His answer followed an explanation of Ripple’s expansion from payments into corporate treasury and prime brokerage, with XRP serving as…