Jake Claver is once again laying out the roadmap he says would lift XRP into triple-digit territory — but he frames it not as a technical-chart prediction, but as a sequencing problem: institutional tokenization, on-chain liquidity, and regulated market plumbing must align first. In a Feb. 16 appearance on the “Memes and Markets” podcast with hosts Ben Leavitt and Keith D, Claver defended his “Domino Theory,” arguing that XRP’s path to $100 depends on a chain of infrastructural milestones rather than a single catalyst. He says he didn’t enter crypto until 2020, built a diversified portfolio, and then concentrated into XRP after the 2022 drawdown because he saw it as a “for sure thing.” The hosts pushed back on Claver’s frequent absolutes — Leavitt called that certainty “the scariest thing” given how widely Claver’s clips circulate. Claver acknowledged his bold language (“I will put my nuts on the line and make statements”), said his attorneys have urged him to tone it down, but refused to back away from his conviction: he claims validation from “the right people” that reinforces his outlook. How the Dominoes Fall Claver’s thesis centers on timing and infrastructure. He points to large financial institutions’ public timelines for tokenizing asset classes “in the next two years, by the end of 2028,” but stresses tokenization alone won’t move markets without the ability to transact at scale. In his view, custody, identity, and liquidity are the gating items. Once those pieces are in place, Claver says, stablecoins could be issued on the XRP Ledger (XRPL) and XRP could function as an intermediary asset to enable regulated marketplaces for tokenized stocks, private-market assets and real estate. He also frames the XRP community as a social base that reinforces scarcity: holders, he says, tend to be older, “faith-based,” and focused on family wealth and philanthropy rather than anti-bank maximalism. That mindset, combined with a fixed supply (100 billion tokens), can shrink the tradable float if long-term holders “sit tight,” creating the conditions for sharper price moves should institutional demand and rails arrive. Addressing Criticism and Missed Calls Claver didn’t sidestep fallout from a missed New Year’s price call. He said some of his conviction was constrained by NDAs and that a public bet he made was intended to protect retail holders from losing XRP in side wagers — he claims those retail assets have been returned. When asked about followers potentially making poor financial decisions based on his timeline, Claver leaned on standard disclaimers and framed his allocation as personal: his regulated advisors would call his strategy “reckless,” he said, but maintained it was his own choice. At the time of the interview, XRP traded at $1.47. Read more AI-generated news on: undefined/news

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