As a die-hard #XRP supporter, you should know why I support @FlareNetworks.
$XRP succeeded by building a bridge to the institutional world, and #Flare $FLR is doing exactly the same by positioning itself as the interoperability and compute layer for that same institutional base.
This week on Bifrost/brief 👇
○ XRPFi on Flare keeps growing. No surprise.
○ FIP.16: higher staking rewards and 20x base-fee change in July.
○ $840M+ USDT0 moved onto Flare
○ @HugoPhilion rolled out the endgame for XRP holders
○ Glow Wave #5 is open for builders to get funding via XRPL Commons
○ RLUSD got approval from Japan Financial Services Agency
○ The finale of Korea’s largest XRPL accelerator is happening today
○ @sentosumosaba joins XRP Seoul as speaker on Oct 3, 2026
○ XDC addresses transitioned from <xdc> to >0x>
○ 8 new institutional validators joined XDC Network in 60 days
○ Recurring crypto purchases live on Topper
○ WalletConnect released Agent SDK to let agents pay with existing crypto wallets
While aggregate value in tokenized stocks has remained relatively stable, holder growth tells a different story.
The number of addresses holding tokenized equities has increased by nearly 30% over the past month, suggesting adoption is still positive.
What do you think has to change before tokenized stocks can scale further?
source: @RWA_xyz
We are past the halfway point of the year, and I recently had several interesting conversations with members of Flare’s engineering team.
Here are some thoughts on where we are and what is taking shape.
If you zoom out, Flare has made meaningful progress in making XRP programmable and giving it access to yield.
Minting activity, users, and TVL show real retail demand, while interest from institutions continues to grow. Flare Smart Accounts have opened another important path by allowing users to remain on the XRPL and operate through familiar flows while accessing programmable actions on Flare.
More wallet integrations, vaults, and improved minting experiences will follow. This is a gradual but productive process, and the distribution surface for XRPFi will continue to expand.
With the announcement of FIRE, Flare now has a clearer path for network activity to accrue value to FLR while keeping the incentives of the ecosystem aligned.
The numbers may look modest at first. That is normal. What matters is whether activity, fees, and integrations keep accumulating over time. Small recurring flows can become economically meaningful when the system continues expanding.
This is where the compounding begins.
FXRP can already move across EVM ecosystems and return to the XRPL. As that activity expands across more networks, applications, and strategies, it creates additional flows and fees throughout the Flare ecosystem.
We still need more cross-chain strategies, particularly those connecting XRP with stablecoin liquidity. The engineering team is developing infrastructure around this area that will become highly significant once fully deployed.
The larger vision goes far beyond earning yield on XRP.
Think of XRP moving across multiple capital markets, supporting cross-chain lending, loan origination, payments, and stablecoin-based strategies, all powered by Flare infrastructure and contributing fees back into the system.
Then add FCC for confidential compute and private financial workflows.
Add FBTC, extending the same programmable-asset vision to the largest asset in crypto.
The current phase may feel slow from the outside, but the pieces are being assembled deliberately. Once they connect as intended, the result will be an ecosystem that compounds by design.
Trust the devs.
Public blockchains were never built for privacy. Transactions, balances, trading activity, financial behavior. All permanently visible. That works for settlement. It fails for everything else.
Encrypted Finance brings confidential execution to public chains without changing how those chains operate. On Flare, the entire stack is native. Flare Confidential Compute provides TEE hardware enclaves that are cryptographically sealed and attested. Instructions go in encrypted, execute inside, results come out encrypted. The operator cannot inspect state. Flare Time Series Oracle delivers decentralized pricing so execution isn't blind. Flare Data Connector handles cross-chain attestation so you can prove events on Bitcoin or XRP Ledger without exposing yourself. FCC for compute. FTSO for data. FDC for verification. All at the protocol level.
What can you do with this? Swaps. Lending. Borrowing. Staking. Governance voting. Treasury management. FAsset minting and redemption. Dark pools for large order execution. Cross-chain transfers. Limit orders. Sealed bid auctions. Forty eight operation types across five contracts. All private by default.
Privacy isn't one size fits all. Compliance requires selective transparency. The user and the application decide what gets revealed, to whom, and when. Not the public ledger.
Live on Coston2 testnet now. Flare is where we start. Not where we stop.
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