Key Takeaways
- EasyA co-founder Dom Kwok has revived his extraordinary $1,000 XRP prediction, saying the level is “more likely than ever.”
- Apple is recruiting an Apple Pay strategist whose preferred qualifications include knowledge of stablecoins, tokenized deposits, and blockchain technology.
- A $1,000 XRP price would imply a circulating market capitalization of roughly $63 trillion.
One of XRP’s wildest price predictions has returned just as a new Apple job listing fuels speculation that the crypto could eventually find its way into Apple Pay.
EasyA co-founder Dom Kwok told his followers on X that “$1,000 is more likely than ever,” a post that generated more than one million views as XRP supporters debated whether adoption could ever justify a four-digit price.
Meanwhile, a development at Apple has added fuel to a much broader narrative of crypto adoption.
Is Crypto Coming to Apple Pay?
Apple’s listing sits directly inside its consumer payments operation.
The strategist would work across products, including Apple Card and Apple Cash, and help assess new product structures, partnerships, and commercial models.
Alongside experience in peer-to-peer payments and credit cards, Apple specifically says candidates should understand stablecoins, tokenized deposits, and blockchain technology.
That wording has sparked speculation that Apple could eventually explore blockchain-powered payments.
However, the listing does not say Apple is developing a crypto product or preparing to let users spend digital assets through Apple Pay.
Regardless, hiring someone who understands emerging payment technology is evidence that Apple considers the sector relevant to its strategy.
Apple is also not alone.
Google Cloud is also recruiting a senior Web3 architect with expertise in stablecoin payment rails and institutional blockchain infrastructure.
$1,000 XRP Prediction Returns
The timing coincides with renewed enthusiasm around one of the XRP community’s most extreme price forecasts.
Kwok, who co-founded developer education platform EasyA, posted simply:
“$1,000 is more likely than ever.”
Kwok did not actually mention XRP in the post.
However, XRP commentator CharuSan reposted Kwok’s message and argued that the EasyA co-founder would not make such a statement without information supporting it.
CharuSan singled out Kwok as someone whose comments he takes particularly seriously.
“Dom Kwok is one of the rare people whose words I can trust.”
CharuSan then went further, saying he believed that if Kwok was posting something as dramatic as the $1,000 claim, he had “definitely obtained information that backs it up.”
That interpretation is helping give the post considerably more weight among XRP supporters.
The comment also followed Kwok’s recent trip to Washington, where he said he and fellow EasyA co-founder Phil Kwok discussed US crypto policy.
However, Kwok himself did not say he possesses undisclosed information, nor did he identify a catalyst behind the renewed forecast.
What Would a $1,000 XRP Price Require?
The numbers remain massive.
XRP is trading around $1.51, meaning reaching $1,000 would require an increase of around 66,000% from current levels.
At $1,000 per token, that supply would carry a market capitalization of approximately $62.9 trillion.
That is roughly 660 times XRP’s current market capitalization.
Sustaining a $1,000 price across tens of billions of tokens would require demand and liquidity on a scale far beyond anything XRP has demonstrated so far.
Would Apple Pay Adoption Even Help XRP?
Apple’s listing mentions stablecoins, tokenized deposits, and blockchain technology, but it mentions neither XRP nor Ripple.
Even if Apple eventually introduced stablecoin payments, it could use numerous networks, banking partners, or private infrastructure without XRP being involved at all.
Likewise, consumers using a blockchain-based payment product would not necessarily need to own or interact with the underlying network’s native crypto.
For XRP, the stronger long-term argument would be evidence that the XRP Ledger or Ripple’s infrastructure is directly selected for payments at significant scale.
Apple’s latest job listing provides no such evidence.
What it does provide, however, is another indication that technologies once largely confined to the crypto industry are increasingly being studied inside some of the world’s largest payment ecosystems.
That may ultimately strengthen the case that blockchain payments are moving toward the mainstream.
The information provided in this article is for informational purposes only. It is not intended to be, nor should it be construed as, financial advice. We do not make any warranties regarding the completeness, reliability, or accuracy of this information. All investments involve risk, and past performance does not guarantee future results. We recommend consulting a financial advisor before making any investment decisions.
Kurt Robson is a London-based reporter at CCN, specialising in the fast-moving worlds of crypto and emerging technology. He began his career covering local news in Cornwall after graduating from Falmouth University with First Class Honours in Journalism. There, he cut his teeth on everything from council meetings to missing swans.
He quickly rose through the ranks to become a frontline journalist at several of the UK’s leading national newspapers. Over the years, he has interviewed musicians and celebrities, reported from courtrooms and crime scenes, and secured multiple front-page exclusives.
Following the upheaval of the COVID-19 pandemic, Kurt shifted his focus to technology journalism—just ahead of the AI boom. With a natural curiosity and a trained eye for emerging trends, he has found a new rhythm in reporting on innovation.
At CCN, Kurt's work focuses on the cutting edge of crypto, blockchain, AI, and the evolving digital world. Drawing on his background in people-first reporting and his deep interest in disruptive tech, Kurt delivers stories that are insightful, entertaining, and human-centric.
