Ripple CEO Celebrates Historic Day for Crypto As XRP Skyrockets to New ATH

Brad Garlinghouse, the CEO of Ripple Labs, has addressed the XRP community with an X post, sharing photos from a historic event – the US president signing the Genius Act, turning it into a law.

This coincided with the Ripple-affiliated cryptocurrency, XRP, soaring to a new all-time high, surpassing that reached in early January 2018.

Ripple CEO highlights the signing of Genius Act

Garinghouse shared photos from the White House, where the Ripple team was present, watching the US president, Donald Trump, sign the just-approved Genius Act. The Ripple CEO highlighted that this was a historic day for the cryptocurrency space since this Act provides clear and friendly regulation of the $250 billion stablecoin market and marks “a shift from the U.S.'s historically cautious crypto stance.”

Garlinghouse stressed the crucial role of the US president, whose family has made $2 billion wealth gain on crypto recently. However, according to the tweet, the CEO was unable to be present at this historic event for crypto in person, but he was “celebrating from afar” as he reposted a tweet issued by Ripple’s chief legal officer, Stuart Alderoty, who is shown in one of the photos attached to the post.

Team Ripple at the White House celebrating a historic day for crypto! Bummed I wasn't able to make it in person but celebrating from afar https://t.co/V5soaBgBnw

— Brad Garlinghouse (@bgarlinghouse) July 18, 2025

XRP finally skyrockets to a new ATH

Fueled by the news of the Genius Act signing, the third-largest cryptocurrency, XRP, has made the move that had been expected of it over the past five years – it has finally skyrocketed to a new all-time high.

🚨XRP hits new ATH

Today, $XRP by @Ripple reached $3.65, its highest price ever recorded, marking over 70% growth within the last 30 days.

Derivatives activity has surged as well, with XRP open interest now at $10B.

Today’s rally is driven by the approval of the CLARITY and… pic.twitter.com/AxfmmqJJ5w

— CryptoRank.io (@CryptoRank_io) July 18, 2025

A chart shows that on Friday, XRP soared by almost 16%, hitting $3.65. In that surge, there were two large green hourly candles, which took XRP roughly 5% up each. Over the past 30 days, the Ripple-affiliated crypto has spiked by 70%.

By now, the coin has experienced a 6% correction and is changing hands at $3.44.

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