Michael Arrington, founder of Arrington Capital, said the XRP ecosystem could have “no upper limit” in value if Ripple stays focused on its mission and keeps executing, framing the company’s infrastructure buildout as a long-duration bet on institutional crypto rails rather than a short-term market narrative.
Speaking on Ripple’s Onchain Economy series in an episode published April 20, Arrington argued that Ripple and XRP have been “completely misunderstood” over the past decade, and said the company’s recent push across stablecoins, prime brokerage, acquisitions and product development could help pull more startups and institutional participants into the ecosystem.
Why XRP Is Becoming Crypto’s Infrastructure StandardArrington tied that view directly to what he sees as Ripple’s growing role as an infrastructure provider. “A lot of the things that Ripple is doing around XRP, particularly the stablecoin, I think makes it inevitable that we’re going to see an increasing number of these startups focusing on building on that ecosystem as well,” he said. “I think we’ll be there to invest in that evolution.”
That framing matters because Arrington was not pitching token primarily as a speculative asset. Instead, he described Ripple’s strategy as an attempt to build foundational market structure for crypto firms and institutions that still lack the tooling available in traditional finance. He said hedge funds operating in digital assets need more robust infrastructure, “not just for compliance,” but for basic market function, custody and execution.
For Arrington, that misreading has obscured what he described as a mission-driven company that has stayed unusually consistent over time. “If Ripple, which is very mission-focused, has shown that over at least the last decade, can continue to hyperfocus on what their mission is and then execute on that, there is no upper limit on the value of that ecosystem in general,” he said.
At press time, XRP traded at $1.44.
