At a recent conference held in Sydney, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse stated that the reason against XRP is its powerful underlying technology, which threatens the existing financial system. He claimed, “They are afraid of us.” President Monica Long described a period filled with intense and inexplicable hostility. Garlinghouse linked co-founder Chris Larsen’s past skepticism of “invisible negative forces” to the disclosure of the Epstein files and pointed out the connection between former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Gary Gensler and MIT’s Joi Ito, implying organized institutional suppression.