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Dr. Stevenson Explains the Bigger Picture Most Traders Miss
Despite ongoing bearish pressure across the crypto market, $XRP continues to spark intense debate. Since October, the total crypto market has lost over $1.3 trillion, and XRP has declined roughly 33% in the past three months.
For many retail traders, this price action signals weakness.
But according to Dr. Camila Stevenson, a health and finance commentator, focusing only on XRP’s short-term price may be completely missing its true purpose.
✨ Watching Price Alone Can Be the Wrong Approach
In a recent commentary, Dr. Stevenson argued that most investors ask the wrong questions about $XRP .
She compared the XRP Ledger to critical infrastructure, like a bridge. Engineers don’t judge a bridge by how much it costs today — they ask:
How much weight can it carry?
How does it behave under extreme stress?
Does it still function when pressure peaks?
According to her, XRPL architects designed XRP with the same mindset.
People asking “Why hasn’t XRP pumped yet?” are thinking like short-term traders.
Institutions, on the other hand, ask a very different question:
“Can this system move massive value without breaking?”
✨ Retail Thinking vs Institutional Thinking
Dr. Stevenson highlighted a key disconnect between retail investors and financial institutions:
🔹 Retail Investors Think:
Charts & candles 📊
Support & resistance
Short-term price movement
“What can I sell this for later?”
🔹 Institutions Think:
System reliability
Liquidity under stress
Settlement speed
Ability to move value at scale
“Can this carry massive financial flows safely?”
According to Stevenson, $XRP was never designed as a speculative-first asset.
It was designed as financial plumbing — infrastructure that only becomes visible when it fails.
⚠️ Why Financial Systems Actually Fail
Large financial systems don’t collapse just because prices fall.
They fail when:
Money can’t move
Settlement delays increase
Liquidity fragments
Slippage explodes
Counterparty risk spikes
For institutions, these failures are catastrophic.
This is where $XRP comes in — not as a trade, but as a liquidity bridge.
✨ Why Banks Prefer a Higher $XRP Price
Dr. Stevenson emphasized a crucial point:
XRP is not equity, not ownership in Rippl and a liquidity instrument
Because XRP has a fixed supply, it cannot scale by minting more units.
The only way it can support larger transaction volumes is if each unit represents more value.
💡 Higher price = fewer units needed = greater efficiency
Banks moving billions of dollars prefer:
Fewer tokens with higher value
Predictable settlement
Deep liquidity
Minimal market impact
This aligns with earlier statements from Ripple CTO David Schwartz, who famously said that “XRP cannot be dirt cheap.”
🧩 Quiet Accumulation, Not Chart Fireworks
Another point many traders miss:
Institutions often position off-exchange via:
Custodians
OTC desks
Private agreements
These activities don’t create explosive candles on charts.
In fact, according to Dr. Stevenson, sudden price spikes during positioning signal instability, not success.
For banks, the goal is not hype — it’s:
Stability,Silent absorption of liquidity,Reliable settlement,System resilience
🔑 Final Takeaway
$XRP is not designed to impress traders in the short term.
It is designed to hold the financial system together under pressure.
Retail watches price.Institutions watch flows.And when viewed through that lens, a higher $XRP price isn’t a luxury — it’s a requirement.

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