A fresh debate in the XRP Ledger (XRPL) community is converging on a specific 
“golden ticket” thesis: XRP’s breakout utility case won’t come from 
narratives, but from plumbing: Ripple’s regulated payments stack sourcing 
liquidity directly from the on-chain XRPL DEX, and Ripple Prime settling 
institutional flow on-ledger. The XRP Golden Ticket Theory The idea surfaced 
in an exchange on X after one user, Alex Cobb, a well-known commentator within 
the XRP community, argued that US market-structure legislation, the CLARITY 
Act, is “XRPs golden ticket.” Another renowned community member, 
Krippenreiter, pushed the focus back on product rails rather than policy 
catalysts: “Personally I think Ripple Payments sourcing liquidity from the 
onchain XRPL DEX and Ripple Prime settling post trade on the XRP Ledger are 
XRPs golden tickets.” Personally I think Ripple Payments sourcing liquidity 
from the onchain XRPL DEX and Ripple Prime settling post trade on the XRP 
Ledger are XRPs golden tickets. (Long-term view 🫡) https://t.co/DOkLdsH1oo — 
Krippenreiter (@krippenreiter) January 27, 2026 Krippenreiter clarified that 
the phrasing tracks what Ripple has previously messaged about how it intends 
to use the XRPL in institutional contexts. “The ideal is to do everything on- 
chain, so yes. Anything happening on-chain settles on XRPL,” they wrote, 
adding: “I said ‘post-trade settlement’ because that’s what Ripple initially 
publicly stated for what they plan on using XRPL for.” Related Reading: XRP 
Funding Rates And Spot Volume Tell An Interesting Story For Price That 
distinction matters because routing liquidity through a public DEX, especially 
for regulated entities, creates a different compliance surface than using a 
ledger as a settlement layer after execution happens elsewhere. In the thread, 
attorney Bill Morgan framed the gating issue bluntly: “Eventually, once it can 
source liquidity from the XRPL DEX without risk of regulatory non-compliance.” 
Others pointed to Permissioned Domains and a permissioned DEX construct as the 
major blocker for regulated liquidity sourcing, with Krippenreiter describing 
“credentials,” “permissioned domain,” and “permissioned dex” as the solution 
set. Morgan noted the implication extends beyond Ripple: if that’s a blocker 
for Ripple, “it will be a block for any other institution that may wish to use 
the XRPL DEX.” Notably, the Permissioned Domains amendment is on track to go 
live next week, XRPScan shows 27 of 34 validator votes (88.24% consensus) and 
an estimated activation time of Feb. 4, 2026 at 09:57:51 UTC, provided it 
remains above the required threshold through the enablement window. The same 
thread pulled Ripple Prime into the picture. Luke Judges (middle management at 
Ripple) said, “Prime underrated, we need more CEXs to support XRPL inventory. 
Working on it.” Related Reading: XRP Ledger Congestion Could Burn 1 Billion 
Coins A Year, Developer Claims Krippenreiter suggested that, beyond exchange 
inventory, privacy could be the other hard prerequisite for Prime’s deeper 
XRPL integration, calling it “the blocker” in circulating rumors. That maps 
onto Ripple’s own public framing: in an October 2 post, Ripple engineering 
leader J. Ayo Akinyele argued that “finance cannot function without 
confidentiality, yet blockchains are built on transparency,” and that 
institutional-grade adoption requires privacy that still supports compliance. 
Akinyele put the institutional constraint in plain terms: “Without privacy, 
financial institutions cannot safely use public ledgers for core workflows. 
Without accountability, regulators cannot sign off. With programmable privacy, 
we can have both.” The discussion landed just as Ripple and GTreasury rolled 
out “Ripple Treasury,” positioning it as enterprise treasury infrastructure 
that blends traditional cash operations with digital-asset rails. At press 
time, XRP traded at $1.9256. Featured image created with DALL.E, chart from 
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On-chain data shows the Bitcoin Supply in Loss indicator has witnessed a shift 
in direction that has often led into bearish phases in past cycles. 365-Day 
SMA Of The Bitcoin Supply In Loss Has Been Rising Recently As pointed out by 
an analyst in a CryptoQuant Quicktake post, the Bitcoin Supply in Loss has 
started to trend up again. This metric measures, as its name suggests, the 
percentage of the total BTC circulating supply that&#8217;s currently being held at 
some net unrealized loss. Related Reading: Next Ethereum Move Hinges On This 
Level, Says Glassnode Analyst The indicator works by scanning through the 
transaction history of each token in circulation to determine the price at 
which it was last transacted on the network. If this previous transaction 
value for any coin was greater than the latest spot price, then the metric 
assumes that particular token to be underwater. The Supply in Loss adds up all 
coins falling in this category and finds what part of the supply they make up 
for. A counterpart metric known as the Supply in Profit tracks the supply of 
the opposite type. Since the total supply must add up to a 100%, however, the 
Supply in Profit is simply equal to the Supply in Loss subtracted from 100. 
Now, here is a chart that shows the trend in the 365-day simple moving average 
(SMA) of the Bitcoin Supply in Loss over the cryptocurrency&#8217;s history: As 
displayed in the above graph, the 365-day SMA Bitcoin Supply in Loss plummeted 
to the lowest point for the cycle back in October. This plunge came as the 
asset rallied to a new all-time high (ATH) beyond the $126,000 level. Since 
the low, however, the indictor has witnessed a rapid climb, a consequence of 
the bearish momentum that BTC has faced following its ATH. So far, the 
indicator hasn&#8217;t risen to a significant level compared to past capitulation 
levels, but the change in direction has been solidifying itself. 
&#8220;Historically, this shift has marked the early phase of bear markets, when 
losses begin to spread beyond short-term holders and gradually reach longer- 
term participants,&#8221; explained the quant. From the chart, it&#8217;s visible that 
bearish transitions in past cycles occurred as the indicator shot up, with a 
high value in it coinciding with the cycle bottom. Related Reading: Bitcoin 
Social Interest Fades As Retail Chases Gold, Silver Hype Whether the recent 
reversal in the Supply in Loss is the beginning of something similar only 
remains to be seen. Earlier in this cycle, an upward turn in the indicator 
ended up only being temporary, as the H1-2025 drawdown gave way to renewed 
bullish momentum rather than a prolonged bear phase. BTC Price At the time of 
writing, Bitcoin is trading around $89,000, up over 1% in the last 24 hours. 
Featured image from Dall-E, chart from TradingView.com

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action against Ripple, easing regulatory overhangs as the company rolled out a 
major treasury platform and the token settled into a consolidation phase. XRP 
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