EasyA co-founder Dom Kwok has revived his long-standing $1,000 XRP forecast after a string of Washington meetings centered on U.S. cryptocurrency policy, writing that "$1,000 is more likely than ever" following a discussion with the White House Council of Economic Advisers.\nThe statement is a renewed endorsement rather than a new target. Kwok previously said XRP could reach $1,000 around 2030, citing institutional adoption and clearer regulation, and he repeated the projection earlier this year alongside EasyA co-founder Phil Kwok. EasyA itself is a developer education company whose mobile app teaches programmers to build blockchain applications.

XRP commentator Bird amplified the remark in a September 20 post on X, pointing to the XRP Ledger's design for tokenization, settlement, and liquidity. The $1,000 price call, however, predates the latest Washington visit.

Huge XRP advocates walk into the White House for meetings, step out, and say $1,000 XRP is more likely than ever. You need to understand what's been built guys. The XRP Ledger was designed for the Internet of Value > tokenization, settlement, liquidity and the movement of value…

— Bird (@Bird_XRPL) September 20, 2026

Washington Crypto Talks Intensify After CLARITY Setback

The policy backdrop is significant. EasyA's meetings came just days after the Senate failed to advance the CLARITY Act, a digital-asset market structure bill, on September 15, when a cloture motion — the procedural vote needed to end debate and move toward final passage — fell 49-50, short of the 60 votes required, leaving the legislation stalled. The outcome has sharpened attention on how U.S. agencies may shape digital-asset regulation without immediate congressional action.

EasyA said Phil and Dom Kwok traveled to Washington to meet the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the agencies the stalled bill would put at the center of digital-asset oversight. Dom Kwok also reported meetings with Representatives Bryan Steil and William Timmons, both members of the House Financial Services Digital Assets Subcommittee, which Steil chairs. Kwok subsequently disclosed the White House Council of Economic Advisers meeting.

Still, no White House statement cited an XRP-specific initiative, and the council did not endorse any XRP price target. The meetings therefore establish policy engagement, not government support for Kwok's forecast.

XRPL Adoption Grows as $62.9 Trillion Valuation Gap Remains

The infrastructure supporting Kwok's thesis has continued to expand across tokenization and settlement. The XRP Ledger, the open-source blockchain with XRP as its native token, includes native token issuance, a decentralized exchange, automated market makers, and settlement within seconds.

Institutional use has broadened as well, part of a wider push by traditional financial firms to bring funds and debt instruments onto public blockchains. Ondo Finance launched its OUSG tokenized Treasury product on XRPL, offering 24/7 minting and redemption through RLUSD, Ripple's dollar-pegged stablecoin. Guggenheim Treasury Services later brought digital commercial paper to the network, and Aviva Investors announced plans in February to tokenize traditional fund structures with Ripple.

Even so, the valuation gap remains substantial. XRP traded near $1.40 on September 20, with 62.88 billion tokens in circulation and a market capitalization near $87.9 billion. At that circulating supply, a $1,000 XRP price would imply a market capitalization of roughly $62.9 trillion — about 700 times the current figure.

That figure does not represent required new capital. Rather, it illustrates the scale of repricing needed for Kwok's forecast to materialize, even as EasyA continues to link its outlook to institutional adoption and regulatory engagement. The concrete markers from here: whether the Senate revisits the stalled market structure bill, and how regulators translate their industry engagement into policy.