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Dave Ripley

Co-CEO, Kraken

Search every verified Dave Ripley interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Dave Ripley, co-CEO of Kraken and its parent company Payward, discussed the company's expanded role in traditional finance during an August 2026 interview at the Wyoming Blockchain Symposium. He said Payward, which has historically operated behind the Kraken brand, now offers APIs and SDKs to banks, brokers, and fintechs, and described a trend he expects to continue: "TradFi products will run on crypto tech," citing stablecoins and tokenized equities as examples. Ripley also noted Payward's partnerships, including one with Bitwise for a Bitcoin yield product and offerings of IPO access to high-net-worth clients, and said the company has built both crypto and traditional finance capabilities simultaneously. In a July 2026 interview with Bitcoin Magazine, Ripley said sovereign adoption of Bitcoin is an "inevitability" and suggested a U.S. strategic Bitcoin reserve could occur within the next 12 months, adding that Kraken is in discussions with state and federal entities about how such a reserve might work. He also criticized bank opposition to interest-sharing on crypto products, describing it as an effort to set "a floor on how much value we extract from this whole thing," and attributed that position to figures such as Jamie Dimon.

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“In order to build in this place where you're leveraging crypto tech TradFi assets, you kind of need to know crypto pretty damn well. And you need to know why is this stuff valuable, why is it better and so forth. But then if you're going to actually do stuff in TradFi, you kind of need to know how that works. And that's kind of how we grew up. We used to view the company as a bridge from one to the other and that rea”

“TradFi products will run on crypto tech. Stablecoins maybe the first example of this. Tokenized equities, X-stocks is another example, tokenized everything, all these different pieces are kind of coming together there.”

“It's amazing that like these discussions actually happen in like plain sight and like people don't riot over it honestly in my mind. Like you have all the banks out there basically saying like look we want to make it law that users can't actually get value from their products from their services and we want to set a floor on how much value we extract from this whole thing which is kind of amazing but that's what they”

“I think when it happens, it might might happen reasonably quickly once word gets out that decentized sovereigns are starting to build Bitcoin positions. The US could actually go and, you know, have a strategic Bitcoin reserve. I mean, they're definitely talking about it given that we're like in discussions directly with a number of these different, you know, states or federal level though, like what would it look lik”

“It's amazing that like these discussions actually happen in like plain sight and like people don't riot over it honestly in my mind. Like you have all the banks out there basically saying like look we want to make it law that users can't actually get value from their products from their services and we want to set a floor on how much value we extract from this whole thing which is kind of amazing but that's what they”

“I think when it happens, it might might happen reasonably quickly once word gets out that decentized sovereigns are starting to build Bitcoin positions. The US could actually go and, you know, have a strategic Bitcoin reserve. I mean, they're definitely talking about it given that we're like in discussions directly with a number of these different, you know, states or federal level though, like what would it look lik”

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