A prominent crypto analyst has suggested that the actual XRP circulating supply is much lower than most realize. With demand for tokens expected to rise from areas such as tokenized debt, gold, and stablecoins, XRP’s seemingly limited supply could tighten even more, leaving the market exposed to a sudden squeeze.
Versan Aljarrah, financial strategist and founder of Black Swan Capitalist, has claimed that XRP’s true circulating supply is significantly smaller than widely assumed. He argues that once escrowed holdings and institutional reserves are removed from the equation, the amount of XRP available in the market is grossly reduced.
According to Aljarrah, this overlooked fact could have enormous consequences once institutional demand from tokenized gold, debt, and stablecoins begins to flood the XRP ecosystem. He added that such a scenario could collapse the remaining market supply overnight.
Expanding on these concerns, Aljarrah took to YouTube to frame the issue within a much larger context. He explained that XRP’s scarcity is far more than a minor technical detail, describing it as a fundamental element of the cryptocurrency’s long-term role in global finance.
The Black Swan Capitalist founder pointed to the mechanics of XRP’s supply as further evidence that scarcity will play a major role in its future valuation. With a fixed supply of 100 billion tokens and a small portion burned with every transaction, he says that XRP could become increasingly scarce as usage grows.
He further argued that meeting institutional scale demand would require XRP’s price to rise significantly, with some forecasts pointing to levels as high as $10,000 or even $1 million—astronomical figures that stand well beyond current market valuations. Central to this thesis is the idea that XRP could function as a world reserve asset and a form of “digital gold.”
Aljarrah envisions central banks and institutions to tokenize assets like gold, bonds, and debt, using XRP to provide liquidity necessary for instant settlement. He suggests that doing this could effectively position XRP as a reserve currency within a tokenized economy.
According to Aljarrah, XRP should not be viewed merely as a speculative cryptocurrency for retail investors. Instead, he positioned it as the core infrastructure of a new financial system designed to replace outdated and failing monetary frameworks.
In his YouTube video, the financial strategist characterized XRP as “the plumbing of the new financial system,” built to deliver infinite scalability and solve multi-trillion-dollar inefficiencies that plague global finance today. To truly grasp XRP’s value, Aljarrah explained that investors must abandon the traditional retail mindset and instead view the token as the backbone of a tokenized global economy.
He drew attention to the inefficiencies and risks in the current financial landscape, from insolvent banks to an overloaded derivatives market, and presented XRP as the bridge currency that can connect failing systems to a modern, interoperable financial network. He further emphasized that XRP is the key that provides the liquidity and settlement power necessary for seamless cross-border and cross-asset transactions.
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