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DTCC Listed, Token Lagging: XRP's 60% Demand Problem | Ep. 1
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Ripple just secured a landmark DTCC clearing listing — and XRP barely flinched. Today's briefing unpacks why 60% of RippleNet partners never touch the token, what the NVT spike and Binance data are warning, and what the CLARITY Act must do to close the gap.
Audio is available on Spreaker — see link below.
Ripple just landed inside the DTCC's clearing infrastructure, and XRP didn't move. That's the story worth paying attention to today.
Here's the key thing the DTCC headline obscures. Of Ripple's three hundred RippleNet banking partners, only forty percent actually use On-Demand Liquidity, which is the product that requires buying XRP to settle transactions.
The infrastructure numbers themselves are real. XRPL tokenized real-world assets have grown from nine hundred ninety-one million dollars to three point five billion this year, a two hundred fifty-three percent increase.
The ETF picture adds a layer of complexity. U.S. XRP ETFs posted eleven point eight eight million dollars in net inflows on May twenty-ninth, while Bitcoin lost one point seven billion and Ethereum shed three hundred nine million in the same week.
The CLARITY Act sits underneath all of this. Standard Chartered's long-term price targets, seven dollars in twenty-twenty-seven scaling toward twenty-eight dollars by twenty-thirty, depend on that legislation passing and converting the sixty percent of messaging-only RippleNet partners to ODL users.
The whale-retail outflow spread on Binance hit eighty-eight point three percent on May thirtieth, its lowest level since May twenty twenty-four. Historically that level has preceded significant price moves in either direction.
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