Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse is predicting crypto adoption will soar this year as US President Donald Trump embraces the industry.
In a new interview with Fox Business, Garlinghouse says that since the United States is no longer stifling the crypto industry with unnecessary lawsuits and regulation by enforcement, the growth of the digital assets sector is poised to skyrocket.
[adinserter block="1"]“Once the United States government filed suit, we really were kind of frozen in the US market, and so about 95% of our customers today, Ripple’s customers, are non-US financial institutions, and those are some of the largest financial institutions, ranging from HSBC and BBVA to payment providers you wouldn’t necessarily have heard of. Markets like Japan, I think are still unlocking.
The market opportunity here is massive. You have trillions of dollars flowing cross-border globally. It’s still largely dominated by the Swift network, if you will. That’s a technology architecture that was developed 50 years ago. There’s an opportunity to modernize. That takes time, particularly when you have a government in the US kind of combating that innovation. But that’s changing now. The Trump effect, if you will, is profound. You’re seeing that in asset prices, but you’re also going to see that in the adoption of these technologies.”
The Ripple CEO also says that blockchain technology may be adopted for a number of uses, including the trading of stocks and the selling and buying of real estate.
“We’re definitely already seeing a change in the domestic interest. These six weeks after President Trump was elected, we signed more deals in the United States than we had in the previous six months. So these are very innovative technologies. I think they’re going to play out over 10, even 20 years, in terms of how they integrate and rewire the financial infrastructure of the United States. That’s across payments, that’s across even the settlement of maybe real estate transactions, securities transactions.
So I think we’re going to see this play out over a long arc, but the United States is finally unlocked, and I think people are underestimating how big that change is, and you’ll see that continue to play out this year.”
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