A prominent figure in the cryptocurrency space, Patrick Riley, CEO of Reaper Financial and President of Atum Industries, has made bold predictions regarding Ripple’s future. In an interview at the 2024 XRP Las Vegas Conference, Riley suggested that XRP’s high value and growing importance within global finance could lead to Ripple becoming a new type of World Bank, with XRP serving as the foundation for a global reserve currency system. His reasoning stems from the historical evolution of reserve currencies, highlighting how past systems like the Roman Empire and Yap Island have established recurring patterns that point towards XRP’s current position in the financial landscape.