I just noticed something very interesting—Arthur Britto, one of the co-founders of the XRP Ledger, suddenly posted a message on X after being silent for 14 years. He just shared an emoji, but that was enough to set the entire XRP community on fire.
Ripple’s CTO David Schwartz later confirmed that Arthur Britto’s account is genuine, not hacked or stolen. This alone is noteworthy because this guy has always been very low-profile.
Arthur Britto is one of the original three creators of the XRP Ledger, along with David Schwartz and Jed McCaleb. McCaleb later founded Stellar, Schwartz became Ripple’s CTO, but Arthur Britto has rarely appeared publicly. However, he has long been associated with a bold claim—"XRP was designed to reach $10,000." This claim reportedly originated from a YouTube video in 2019, claiming that Arthur Britto made such a prediction around 2017.
His vision back then was to build a network that connects everyone worldwide. To achieve this, Arthur Britto and his team designed the XRP Ledger to be fast, cheap, and scalable to support billions of users. Interestingly, an internal memo from 2013 explicitly stated that XRP was not about speculation or price trading. He mentioned that the value of XRP might be less important than liquidity, and he expected most people and institutions using the ledger would ignore XRP altogether.
Although Arthur Britto has remained silent, the XRP Ledger itself has evolved into a powerful network. It now supports smart contracts, CBDCs, institutional-grade stablecoins, DeFi, NFTs, and cross-border payments.
Most importantly, his recent action comes at a particularly opportune time. Recently, the XRP Ledger recorded 1.5 million transactions within 24 hours—its highest in nearly four months. There are also multiple signals stacking up: record on-chain activity, Ripple IPO rumors, signs of a new bull market. The Federal Reserve recently announced it would no longer consider "reputational risk" as a factor in bank examinations, effectively opening the door for banks to participate more freely in digital assets like XRP.
These regulatory changes, emerging catalysts, and actions like Arthur Britto’s all hint that something bigger might be happening behind the scenes. It could be a technical upgrade, internal development, new global liquidity collaborations, or a strategic response to growing institutional interest. Interestingly, the original purpose behind Arthur Britto’s design of XRP—to connect the world—seems to be getting closer to realization.