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Couldn't have said it better myself! Congratulations @elonmusk Many more billionaires and trillionaires to come. 🙏

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🔥BREAKING: Wall Street successfully tests 5-second Treasury settlements on the XRP Ledger. A new cross-border tokenized redemption pilot was just completed by a powerhouse lineup: 🔹 JPMorgan 🔹 Mastercard 🔹 @OndoFinance 🔹 @Ripple By cutting settlement times down from 3–5 business days to a mere 5 seconds, this test highlights the massive efficiency gains tokenization brings to traditional banking rails.
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🔥BITWISE CIO: THE CLARITY ACT “DOESN’T MATTER” ANYMORE Matt Hougan says the real issue was regulatory uncertainty. Now, crypto can keep building whether the bill passes or not.
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‼️MAJORITY OF INSTITUTIONS PREFER FULL STACK DIGITAL ASSET PARTNERS LIKE RIPPLE‼️ US institutions are demanding full-stack digital asset infrastructure providers rather than point solutions.🎯 Full-stack solutions connect custody, core systems, payments, brokerage, treasury, and settlement into ONE unified operational layer.🌐 Meanwhile, point solutions offer ONLY isolated pieces, requiring institutions to stitch together multiple vendors.🔻 “Across every factor, the expectation is the same: full-stack delivery, not point solutions. US institutions are NOT selecting for a single capability, they are selecting for a provider that can deliver across the entire stack.”✅ This is directly from a 2026 Fireblocks U.S institutional survey. “When US institutions SELECT a digital asset infrastructure provider, their criteria reflect their focus on connecting custody, core systems, and payment infrastructure into a SINGLE operational layer that will be ready to scale when the REGULATORY framework is clarified.”✅ Ripple has executed precisely this model through targeted acquisitions: • Hidden Road for institutional prime brokerage • GTreasury for treasury management • Metaco for custody • Rail for stablecoin infrastructure No competitor has matched this level of consolidation at the same speed and depth.😏💨 This is the exact reason why Ripple and XRP’s use case will not be overtaken by any other crypto company.🔒 Documented below.📝👇
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trumps says he will “build a future-proof digital asset market structure that cannot be undone by the crypto haters” i love it when the president talks like that.
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Two MASSIVE Executive Orders signed by Trump today on Fintech and Digital Assets! --Integrating Fintech and Digital Assets into Traditional Finance-- This order directs federal regulators to review and streamline rules to foster innovation and competition between fintech firms, cryptocurrency companies, and traditional banks. It mandates that agencies identify outdated guidelines and create measures to integrate digital assets and innovative technologies into traditional payment. --Expanding Payment Access and Tightening Financial Oversight-- This order directs the Federal Reserve to evaluate how non-bank financial firms and uninsured depository institutions (such as crypto companies) are granted access to its wholesale payment systems and accounts (often called "master accounts"). Additionally, it tasks the Treasury with updating Bank Secrecy Act and customer-identification regulations to prevent exploitation by criminal networks and to guide financial institutions on serving undocumented individuals without overburdening banks.
🇺🇸 BIG: President Trump signed two executive orders on fintech and financial security. The first streamlines regulations for fintech firms and promote financial innovation, while the second tightens customer identification requirements to crack down on illicit activity in the banking system.
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‼️ RIPPLE JUST PARTNERED WITH THE NEXT MAJOR SWITCH FOR THE ENTIRE CRYPTO SPHERE ‼️ Ripple Prime has just integrated with EDX Markets.🤝 This is a major development that all eyes should be on.🔒 Here’s why: EDX Exchange is backed by Wall Street giants like Charles Schwab, Fidelity, Citadel Securities, Goldman Sachs, and former executives from CME Group.🔑 Together these firms have a combined $11.5 Trillion in assets under management and serve 77 million active broker accounts.💸 EDX is essentially an institutional-grade trading desk designed for Wall Street.💯 And it is now integrated with Ripple Prime.✅ The even more interesting aspect of this partnership is the descriptions used to evaluate the impact EDX will have on digital asset markets.🙇‍♂️ “When they FLIP THE SWITCH on EDX Clearinghouse, it’ll be like opening a massive 16-lane superhighway for these semi-trucks full of cash.” 💰 📈 “The impact of this event will be FELT across the ENTIRE crypto sphere.” 💥 Not only will the switch flip on EDX be massive, it will be easy. 😏 💨 “The underlying customer still needs to onboard to EDX, join the clearing house and agree to abide by the market’s rule book but Acuña-Rohter said the connection is ‘BASICALLY A FLIP OF A SWITCH.’🎚️🔥 This is all documented below.📝👇
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The Texas Stock Exchange is set to soft launch between July 2 - 17 2026. July just got STACKED🔥🚀
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Elon Musk just defended America better than every politician in Washington combined. Musk: “After World War 2, the US could have basically taken over the world and any country. Like we got nukes, nobody else got nukes. We don’t even have to lose soldiers. Which country do you want?” One nation on earth held a weapon nobody else had. Total dominance. Zero competition. No risk of retaliation. Every empire in history that held that kind of advantage used it. Rome. The Mongols. The British. The Ottomans. They conquered until they collapsed. America had a bigger advantage than all of them combined. And it rebuilt the countries it just defeated. Musk: “The United States actually helped rebuild countries. So it helped rebuild Europe, it helped rebuild Japan. This is very unusual behavior, almost unprecedented.” Almost unprecedented? It had never happened before. Not once in 5,000 years of recorded history. The Marshall Plan wasn’t foreign aid. It was the most radical act of restraint any superpower ever committed. America turned its enemies into allies. Turned rubble into economies. Turned surrender into partnership. Germany went from ashes to the economic engine of Europe in a generation. Japan went from unconditional surrender to the third largest economy on earth. Three years after the war, America was flying food into Berlin. A city in the heart of the nation that just tried to destroy it. That’s not policy. That’s a civilization deciding what it is at the exact moment it has the power to be anything. You’re being told a story right now. That America is the villain of history. You hear it everywhere. Media. Universities. Social platforms. Musk: “There’s always like, well America’s done bad things. Well of course America’s done bad things, but one needs to look at the whole track record.” Every nation on earth has dark chapters. Every single one. The difference is what a country does when nobody can stop it. And when nobody could stop America, it fed its enemies and rebuilt their cities. Musk: “The history of China suggests that China is not acquisitive. Meaning they’re not going to go out and invade a whole bunch of countries.” Probably right. China has historically built walls, not fleets. But the real question isn’t about borders anymore. We’re approaching a moment that mirrors 1945 in ways nobody has fully processed yet. AI is going to give a handful of people a power advantage that makes nuclear monopoly look quaint. If someone is going to hold that kind of power, who do you want it to be? The country that conquered when it could? Or the one that rebuilt when it didn’t have to? Every alliance. Every trade route. Every economy. Billions lifted out of poverty. All of it traces back to one act of restraint that had never been done before. And carries no guarantee of being repeated. The most powerful thing America ever did wasn’t building the bomb. It was what it didn’t do after.
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They don't want to defend this...
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DTCC will use the XRP Ledger Swift will use the XRP Ledger Fed will use the XRP Ledger ECB will use the XRP Ledger IMF will use the XRP Ledger World Bank will use the XRP Ledger And to use the XRP Ledger, YOU MUST USE XRP. LFG!
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In case you missed it: “The prices of cryptocurrencies will be SET IN THE DERIVATIVES MARKET…”😏💨 Listen closely.👇
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This is the switch. Now pile on SWIFT, Mastercard, Japan,etc.
The DTCC would process $10.1Trillion per day of tokenized assets if it was currently operating 365 days a year. This is once it is operating at full scale. If Ripple Prime were to capture just 10% of total volume, that is $1Trillion every day, without interruption - in perpetuity. 1 - RLUSD would most likely cover at least half of that daily, so a mint of 500Billion RLUSD would be needed just that alone. 2 - XRP itself would cover the rest as some swaps would mostly need to occur. The big question here is - how much XRP would be utilized? Let’s say just $250Billion will settle daily on XRP from Ripple Prime and DTCC. Currently that’s just not possible given the price and available supply. The less XRP they can have access to… the bigger this problem gets. There is only one solution. This is unstoppable at this point. And the clock is ticking. July 2026 is the limited run. October 2026 is full production. Godspeed.🫡
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This is why the DTCC will be a major switch for tokenization. 🎚️ Right now, issuers like Securitize and Ondo are tokenizing securities one by one.☝️ It’s slow and messy.🔻 The DTCC will do it completely differently. Its nominee, Cede & Co., is already the registered owner for NEARLY ALL U.S. stocks.😏💨 One single move lets the DTCC onboard the ENTIRE market at once.🔑 No waiting for each issuer. This unique capability will allow the DTCC will “leapfrog” the current slow way and jump straight to massive scale.📈 Documented.📝👇
The DTCC is a major switch.🎚️💨
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If doctors were paid based on how healthy their patients stayed, the entire healthcare system would change overnight. Tell me I’m wrong.
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Ondo, Kinexys by @jpmorgan, @Mastercard, & @Ripple successfully completed a landmark pilot transaction connecting the XRP ledger with interbank settlement rails. This milestone marks the first time tokenized U.S. Treasuries have settled across borders and banks in near real time and outside traditional banking windows. 1. Ondo processed Ripple’s OUSG redemption on XRP Ledger 2. Mastercard's Multi-Token Network routed instructions to Kinexys by J.P. Morgan 3. J.P. Morgan delivered USD to Ripple's Singapore bank account Tokenized assets are no longer separate from the global financial system. For the first time, a public blockchain and global banking infrastructure settled a cross-border transaction of a tokenized fund together in real time. Together, we’re laying the groundwork for 24/7 global markets that never close.
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Unreal, the next gen is here, and the markets barely know what's happening.
🔥 JUST IN: $114T custodian DTCC to pilot tokenized securities trading in July, with full launch set for October. Over 50 TradFi and crypto firms involved, including BlackRock, JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Nasdaq, Circle, Ondo, Ripple Prime and more.
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Let's get it done!
🔥 The rumors are confirmed: The Clarity Act markup is set for the week of May 11. This is the moment the "Wild West" era officially ends and the "Wall Street" era begins. By defining "mature blockchains" and drawing a hard line between the SEC and CFTC, this bill provides the legal air cover that every major pension fund and sovereign wealth fund has been waiting for.
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