Our next guest spent four years fighting the SEC and emerged with a landmark ruling for XRP.

He then turned around and spent $4 billion rebuilding Ripple into a global payments powerhouse.

Please welcome Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse.

Brad, how's it going?

Good to be here.

A lot of stuff to talk about. It's a busy day. Let's get into it. It is a busy day. Bitcoin up above $80,000. This is awesome. A lot of stories breaking throughout consensus and overnight. I mean, what are you watching as we get the day started? I mean, I thought there were a couple big headlines overnight. I say this,

the bullish deal, obviously the biggest crypto deal ever. I think is also an amazing example.

I think not dissimilar to some of the acquisitions ripple has made of traditional finance bridging to defy crypto, where Aquinity, I think, had zero activity around all things, crypto, tokenization,

real-world assets, and now being partnered with bullish.

I think it's a big unlock for both companies, and not surprisingly, the stock's way up on the news.

Brad, there's almost no one better to talk about this.

When we come to tokenization, we're here, the institutions are here,

you guys are here, you've done a lot of the legwork to get these folks here. How does it feel to

sort of see, even with the bull at most yield, that tokenization is the topic people are talking about.

Yeah. I'll tell you've obviously been around the block also and been around and seen this,

and to see how far we have come,

I guess around the block, pun intended in this case.

You know, it does feel a little bit like a magical moment.

I am glad to see Bitcoin back of over 80.

It's surprising to me that the market has been kind of in the doldrums,

despite a lot of things

lining up for what I think is likely to be a nice set of things where crypto in general is more

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