What could XRP price rise to if Hidden Road handled as little as 10% of DTCC’s annual settlement volume using Ripple stablecoin RLUSD?
Notably, during the DTCC Blockchain Symposium in June 2016, Robert Palatnick, a Managing Director at the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), discussed blockchain’s potential.
The community member suggested that if DTCC ever decided to move deeper into blockchain, the XRP Ledger could be one of the leading candidates.
Speaking on this, Chad Steingraber, a professional game designer and another XRP proponent, pointed out that in March 2025, DTCC approved Hidden Road, a Ripple-owned firm, as a member of its Fixed Income Clearing Corporation (FICC) for U.S. Treasury clearing.
Steingraber said Hidden Road could eventually process massive volumes through DTCC using RLUSD. He predicted that Hidden Road might handle quadrillions of dollars each year through this channel.
For context, DTCC doesn’t publish its full settlement totals publicly, but estimates place its combined annual volume, covering its NSCC and FICC GSD, at roughly $2.33 quadrillion. This figure excludes additional services like MBSD and DTC, which overlap with NSCC’s equities operations.
Notably, Ripple already uses RLUSD for settlements through Hidden Road. If Hidden Road ends up processing even 10% of DTCC’s total settlement volume through RLUSD, that would mean about $233 trillion in annual transactions, or roughly $19.4 trillion every month.
Several XRP community figures believe such enormous transaction flow could strengthen XRP’s value, although no one can say by how much.
As a result, we asked ChatGPT for a price prediction based on this scenario. The AI chatbot used the $2.33 quadrillion settlement total and assumed Hidden Road handles 10% of it through RLUSD with XRP as the liquidity bridge to build a liquidity velocity model.
Considering there is 55 billion XRP in circulation, it assumed each token could circulate 50 times per day, equal to 18,250 transactions per year. Under this condition, processing $233 trillion annually would require about $12.77 billion worth of XRP liquidity, setting a base value of around $0.23 per token for settlement purposes.
ChatGPT then applied different multipliers to reflect adoption, staking, and market speculation. With a moderate 20x multiplier, XRP could trade around $4.6. With stronger adoption at 100x, it could reach roughly $23. Meanwhile, in the bullish case, the model estimated a possible price above $100.
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