A viewer asked: Do you think it's possible that XRP could be pegged to gold? This recording is Jake Claver's answer, in full and unedited.
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What this recording covers
Addressing whether XRP could be pegged directly to gold, Jake Claver explains why fixing the token to a single commodity would limit its network utility and settlement capacity. He describes an evolving international monetary framework where commodities like oil and gold establish baseline exchange ratios to support sovereign currencies. While Claver anticipates that physical gold and other commodities will be tokenized and traded on the XRP Ledger, he argues against pegging the native token itself to gold. He explains that a fixed peg would restrict the ledger's ability to facilitate expanding global transaction volume. Instead, Claver views XRP functioning as an unpegged, tier-one bridge asset whose market depth must expand flexibly to accommodate growing cross-border payment flows and financial clearinghouse settlement operations.
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