Ripple’s Next Steps: Where XRP Stops Being Trade And Starts Being Infrastrucutre

Ripple is laying out a transition in which XRP is no longer positioned primarily as a traded asset, but as infrastructure supporting tokenized finance and institutional settlement. At the World Economic Forum 2026, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse described how this shift is already taking shape through live tokenization activity, regulated integration with banks, and on-chain settlement at scale. 
XRP Tokenization Shifts From Theory To Balance-Sheet Reality
Garlinghouse used tokenization as th