Here is XRP Price if Hidden Road Handles 10% of DTCC’s $2 Quadrillion Volume Using RLUSD

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. 

DTCC MD Discusses Blockchain

He said blockchain’s real advantage is in how it allows information to move smoothly between firms without forcing everyone to rely on the same systems or databases. 

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Despite this, Palatnick warned that the hype around the technology had led to inaccurate claims. To debunk some of these claims, Palatnick explained that reconciliation would always play a role, that instant settlement isn’t always the best approach, and that blockchain alone cannot replace every existing financial system.

He also clarified that blockchain functions mainly as a transaction ledger, not a complete computing platform. Palatnick also addressed discussions around public and private blockchains. He said public, permissionless networks aren’t automatically better, noting that both public and private blockchains have their place depending on the use case.

DTCC Could Leverage XRPL

Recently, an anonymous XRP community member called attention to the panel discussion. The renewed attention came because the panel was hosted by Donald Donahue, the former DTCC CEO who served as a Ripple advisor at that time and still holds that advisory position today. 

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. 

Hidden Road will process QUADRILLIONS through DTCC annually with RLUSD.

It’s only a matter of time… ⏰XRP https://t.co/WFLP23ge4m pic.twitter.com/N5ZhSdkhrV

— Chad Steingraber (@ChadSteingraber) October 16, 2025

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.

XRP Price if Hidden Road Settles 10% of DTCC Volume with RLUSD

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.