Something to cool you off and something warm you up! Angel of Frost and The Promise are now LIVE as Limited Open Editions until the end of the week! 🥶🥵
AOF: https://t.co/UhzUdHF5pf
TP: https://t.co/f8IcSxrmIS
XRP doesn't care about market cap. • XRP Price = $100 • Circulating Supply = 50B XRP • Market Cap = $5 trillion • However, if each XRP is used for settlement 1,000 times a day, it could theoretically support a daily flow of $5 quadrillion. So, even with a market cap of $5 trillion, the actual value settled or represented by the network could far exceed that figure. SWIFT has no market cap, yet trillions of dollars flow through it daily. XRP acts as a bridge of liquidity in the world of tokenized finance, not as a store of value like gold. It is infrastructure. In utility-based adoption, does market capitalization matter? No, it's more about network usage, liquidity speed, and transaction throughput. If XRP were to power even a small fraction of the derivatives market, traditional market cap calculations would become completely irrelevant.
AI companies are buying large volumes of used, rare, and out-of-print books, scanning them for training data, and in many cases destroying the physical copies afterward.
This practice has accelerated as labs seek high-quality, pre-2022 human-written text free of AI-generated content that now saturates much of the open web.
The most documented example is Anthropic’s internal effort known as Project Panama. Court filings from copyright litigation revealed that the company acquired millions of physical books from used-book sellers and wholesalers such as Better World Books. Workers used hydraulic cutting machines to slice off the spines, fed the loose pages into industrial high-speed scanners, and then discarded or pulped the remains. An internal planning document described the goal as an effort to destructively scan books at massive scale. A federal judge later ruled that purchasing the books, creating internal digital copies this way, and destroying the originals constituted transformative fair use under U.S. copyright law, relying in part on the first-sale doctrine.
Similar activity is now widespread. Specialized brokers, including ISBNdb, openly market bulk acquisition services to AI labs, offering orders ranging from thousands to as many as one million titles. They emphasize older printed books as “structurally clean” training data.
Booksellers in the United States and Europe have reported sudden surges in bulk orders for mixed, random selections that include rare and out-of-print volumes. Some of these titles may represent among the last readily available physical copies. While a substantial portion of the books involved would otherwise have been remaindered, recycled, or sent to landfills, the inclusion of uncommon editions has drawn criticism from archivists, collectors, and rare-book dealers who note that gentler, non-destructive scanning methods exist yet are slower and more expensive.
The process remains largely quiet because the intermediary services promise anonymity to their AI clients. Public attention has grown mainly through litigation disclosures and reporting by outlets that examined the court records and interviewed booksellers.
The practice highlights a practical tension in large-scale AI development: the demand for vast quantities of reliable human text collides with the finite physical supply of older printed works and the cultural value of preserving rare copies.
Exciting news!!!
NFT Editions are live on @xrpcafe
Editions allow creators to offer a limited number of copies of an NFT, making NFTs on the XRPL more affordable, accessible, and widely available to everyone
Create Editions here https://t.co/sMMFivcCeK
The Mojica Editions Gallery is BACK ONLINE! 🫀 By utilizing @xrpcafe's new Open Edition feature, I will now begin archiving my work starting with the following:
Current prices? 0.66 - 1 XRP
Limit? 3 Per Wallet
Where? https://t.co/tIKhAuUcr1
GM XRP Fam 🔆
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I tell a story too heavy to be spoken.
I intertwine fractured layers,
finding a fragile order within the chaos.
A war is raging inside me...
Yet all I ask of you
is to see the peace.
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Between Dreams and Nightmare
OE on @IMCollectibles_
Per Ed just 2.5 Xrp
XRP has Music, Albums & Art. 🎵💿🎨
I recently collected 4 Access NFTs on @IMCollectibles_, gaining exclusive access to Art, Music & even Albums 🚀
Thread on what I picked up, and why "Access" is the word that matters. 🔐
1/6🧵
Gn 🎉
Celebrating 90% of @xrpaths
Incredible achievement for a small artist. I appreciate every single one that is a part of this beautiful journey!
Minting on @xrpcafe ☕️
XRP’s deeper value may lie in what it makes possible for everything else.
When value can move between ledgers and currencies with far less trapped capital, every other asset becomes slightly more usable, more liquid, and more globally relevant.
In that sense XRP is not competing with other assets so much as increasing the capital efficiency of the entire stack that sits on top of it.
That is a very different role from simply being another investment.
The deeper insight is that gold and XRP strengthen each other by covering each other’s blind spots.
Gold offers balance-sheet density and long-term trust.
XRP provides speed, neutrality, and the ability to settle across ledgers without large pre-funded positions.
In combination, they offer institutions something rare: a hard asset that can sit still with confidence and a bridge asset that can move with precision.
Most still analyze them in isolation.