XRP Gets a New Title at Consensus 2026: World Bridge Currency

Ted from LIFTT Capital stepped on stage at Hederacon in Miami with one answer to one question about XRP.

Three words: World Bridge Currency.

The framework:

PayPal, Cash App, every major payment platform — all closed loops. Money enters, money stays trapped inside. Moving value between them requires middlemen, slow rails, and unnecessary fees.

The fix is interoperability. One neutral bridge currency connecting all these systems without trusting any single platform.

His pick: $XRP.

"I am not talking about a coin. I am not talking about a dollar. I am not talking about an exchange note. Currency is the purest form of money."

That framing positions XRP not as a speculative token but as infrastructure — the monetary layer underneath the entire fintech stack.

Meanwhile, Goldman Sachs filed to exit all its XRP ETF holdings ($154M across Bitwise, Grayscale, Franklin Templeton, 21Shares). Goldman kept its BTC ETF positions...