New paper challenges simplistic XRP “domino” narratives and explains when XRP liquidity creates scarcity — and when it doesn’t
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Lewis Jackson Ventures Ltd today announced the release of a new research paper introducing the Velocity Threshold, a quantitative framework that defines how fast liquidity must circulate for XRP-based settlement and AMM-driven liquidity architectures to function at global scale.
The research directly addresses one of the most debated questions in the XRP community:
If XRP is adopted by banks and institutions, does that automatically mean extreme price appreciation — or does system design determine the outcome?
By extending the Jackson Liquidity Framework (JLF), the paper provides the first formal model linking XRP liquidity requirements, settlement velocity, fragmentation, and inventory lock-up in modern financial systems.
Contrary to popular assumptions that XRP price must rise simply because “trillions will flow through it,” the research demonstrates that:
Under certain architectures, XRP can support very large settlement volumes with relatively little locked supply. Under others, XRP inventory requirements rise sharply.
This distinction is critical for understanding realistic XRP price outcomes.
The paper shows that fragmentation across many liquidity pools or corridors causes XRP inventory requirements to scale rapidly, even when XRP is used as a hub asset.
While hub-based designs reduce the number of trading pairs, they do not eliminate the need for pre-funded liquidity in each pool.
The research proves that:
This finding explains why XRP price outcomes depend on system architecture, not just adoption.
A central conclusion of the paper is that XRP is structurally unlikely to be the internal settlement asset of CBDC shared venues or unified ledgers.
Instead, XRP’s highest-likelihood role is at seams — points where value must move between different rulebooks, platforms, or governance regimes, such as:
This seam-based role does not diminish XRP’s importance — it defines it more precisely.
The research reframes popular XRP “domino theory” narratives by showing that:
As a result, XRP price is best understood as an option on system design choices, not an automatic consequence of adoption.
To ground the framework, the paper includes a 2030 thought experiment using current real-world financial system volumes, not pilot programs, including:
The analysis shows that depending on refresh interval and fragmentation, required XRP inventory could range from millions to billions of XRP, even for the same daily settlement flow.
According to Lewis Jackson, Founder of Lewis Jackson Ventures Ltd:
“There’s a lot of excitement in the XRP community about adoption and price targets. What’s been missing is a mechanical explanation for when XRP creates scarcity and when it simply provides throughput. The Velocity Threshold gives us that missing piece.”
The research provides a new, defensible framework for evaluating XRP utility, XRP liquidity, and XRP price dynamics without relying on speculation or hype.
The full Velocity Threshold research paper is now available HERE.
Lewis Jackson Ventures Ltd is a UK-based research and advisory firm specialising in liquidity dynamics, XRP settlement architecture, AMM-based financial systems, and tokenised market infrastructure.
The firm publishes independent research analysing the structural constraints shaping XRP adoption, CBDCs, cross-border payments, and global liquidity redesign.
Lewis Jackson is the creator of The Macro, a research platform dedicated to understanding how digital assets like XRP fit into the evolving institutional financial system.
