Jake Claver also laid out the conditions that he says should follow XRP to reach triple digits, betting not as a chart call but as a sequencing problem with institutional tokens, on-chain liquidity, and regulated market pipelines. In the “Memes and Markets” discussion on Feb. 16 with Ben Leavitt and Keith D, Claver defended the so-called “Domino Theory”.
Claver told the hosts that he didn’t invest in crypto until 2020, building a broad portfolio first, and then integrated into XRP after the 2022 drawdown because he viewed it as “a sure thing.” Athletes furthered his habit of speaking out completely, with Leavitt describing it as “pretty scary” given how much his clips revolved around. Claver didn’t back down from the stand.
“I will put my peanuts on the line and make statements,” he said, adding that his lawyers had advised him to refrain from doing so going forward. “I’m not going to back down. I’m a big believer in this. And I’ve had enough confirmation from the right people to make me believe that this is the outcome that’s going to happen.”
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From there, the conversation moved to what Claver sees as the social background of XRP trading. He asserted that XRP attracts a “fixed type of person,” describing owners as “faith-based,” typically older, and focused on family wealth and philanthropy rather than the opposite narrative of banks.
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According to him, people’s preferences cannot be separated from the status of goods. “They don’t think the banks are going to end. They’re not going to be broken up,” Claver said. “They don’t think that this is going to be a free, free-for-all DeFi ecosystem where they can participate without being tracked and directed. So XRP is a banker’s coin, right? That appeals to them.”
Claver’s core mechanism is less about a single catalyst and more about preconditions. He cited timelines that he said were circulated by major financial institutions around asset classes for “the next two years, by the end of 2028,” arguing that tokenization means nothing without being able to trade at scale.
“It doesn’t add value today because there aren’t enough funds in those natural areas for people to do things like there are in the stock market or other markets,” he said. In his image, preservation, self-awareness, and poverty are the entrances; once those are in place, stablecoins may be issued from XRPL with XRP used as an intermediate asset, allowing the token stock markets, private markets, and real estate to operate in a “regulated environment.”
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He also provided a cultural feedback loop: a long-lasting belief in the results of “the highest price” encourages owners to remain firm, reducing the sales float. In Claver’s view, that shortfall (100 billion tokens) is flexible enough to increase price pressure if demand comes close to institutional rails. “When more is taken out of the market, there is less supply that is freely traded and the price will go up,” he said, arguing that many will not sell “until they see the much higher prices that many people expect.”
The interview did not avoid Claver’s missed New Year’s call. He said his conviction was related to NDAs and partly to public betting, which he said was intended to ensure traders were not permanently deprived of XRP from side wagers. “Some people like to grind hard with the amount of XRP they have,” he said. “And for them to just lose that to someone else by betting on Twitter, I didn’t feel right. So all those people got their XRP back.”
Pressed on the risk of followers making “very poor financial decisions” during his tenure, Claver leaned against the wealth management debate: large gains can reduce stability without proper tax planning, estate planning, and management. He noted that the management consultants at his consulting firm “would tell me I was careless and careless in the way I did my part,” setting his own situation as a choice rather than a template.
At press time, XRP traded at $1.47.
The featured image was created with DALL.E, a chart from TradingView.com
