Squire Tells Ripple: Pics or It Didn't Happen — XRP Wants Receipts 📜

$XRP influencer John Squire publicly pressed Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse to translate the company's growing roster of institutional partnerships into tangible outcomes for $XRP holders, arguing that announcements alone no longer satisfy the community. Squire's remarks came after Ripple disclosed a partnership with DriveWealth, a global brokerage services platform, aimed at expanding digital asset infrastructure across payments, settlements, custody and institutional financing.

In his post on X, Squire said the $XRP community has grown weary of partnership announcements that fail to produce visible benefits for the token itself, urging the company to demonstrate concrete progress tied directly to $XRP. He framed the gap between deal volume and ecosystem utility as the central frustration, calling on Ripple leadership to deliver measurable advancements rather than continued press-cycle milestones.

The DriveWealth collaboration, according to Ripple, is intended to deepen institutional access to digital assets and broaden the use cases available across Ripple's payments network, with a focus on streamlining cross-border settlement flows and improving custody solutions for institutional participants. The companies said the integration is designed to support institutional financing arrangements and broaden access to tokenized assets through DriveWealth's brokerage footprint.

Squire's critique reflects a wider sentiment within segments of the $XRP community that have repeatedly called for clearer links between Ripple's enterprise deals and on-chain utility, price impact or adoption metrics for the $XRP token. Critics have pointed to a pattern of high-profile announcements that, in their view, have not consistently translated into network growth, liquidity gains or new use cases accessible to $XRP holders.

Ripple has not publicly responded to Squire's comments. The company continues to position its payments and institutional infrastructure business around its partnerships, including the DriveWealth deal, while $XRP trades independently on public markets.