Brad Garlinghouse flies to San Francisco the week Ripple pilots tokenized Treasury settlement with JPMorgan and Mastercard

Brad Garlinghouse flew from Fort Lauderdale to San Francisco on June 6, 2026, touching down at KSFO three days before a landmark tokenized asset pilot reached the press. The timing aligns with a major infrastructure play by Ripple.

The same week, Ripple, JPMorgan, Mastercard, and Ondo Finance completed a near real-time, cross-border redemption of tokenized U.S. Treasuries on the XRP Ledger, per a Cryptopolitan report. The test used Ondo's OUSG product, Ripple's redemption on XRPL, Mastercard's Multi-Token Network for the payout instruction, and Kinexys by J.P. Morgan for dollar settlement—sent to Ripple's bank account in Singapore. It is the first time tokenized Treasuries have settled across borders and banks outside traditional banking windows.

The flight from KFLL to KSFO fits a pattern: Garlinghouse shuttles between the Florida residence listed in his business filings and Ripple's Battery Street headquarters. The legal cloud over XRP cleared in August 2025, and Ripple now leans into institutional pilots like this one, which connects public blockchain infrastructure with interbank rails. The CEO's own plane tracked home the same week his company helped prove that settlement can run 24/7.