Brad Garlinghouse lands near Riverside as CLARITY Act push intensifies

Brad Garlinghouse flew from Van Nuys to March Air Reserve Base on May 26, a 39-minute hop that likely served as a repositioning to a connecting aircraft. The flight arrived the same week the CLARITY Act, legislation to codify SEC and CFTC crypto guidance into law, could pass by the end of May, per a report from MoneyCheck. Garlinghouse has urged Congress to act, warning that without statutory backing, future regulators could repeat what he called a “weaponized Gensler moment.”

Garlinghouse has been on a global circuit: earlier this year he visited Ripple offices in Dublin, London, Singapore, and Sydney over five days, as he noted on X. The company has also completed a pilot with JPMorgan and Mastercard for cross-border tokenized Treasury settlement, and Garlinghouse disclosed Ripple holds $60–70 billion in crypto assets (excluding XRP escrow) plus $4 billion in cash, per a TradingView report. The March ARB landing, while brief, fits a pattern of frequent West Coast movements as Ripple’s CEO presses for regulatory clarity and expands its payments and stablecoin operations.