Mr Willy

[Ripple @Ripple]

$RLUSD is institutional-grade infrastructure for payments and tokenization.

Through @wormhole’s Native Token Transfers (NTT), $RLUSD can now move natively across multiple blockchain ecosystems, supporting cross-border payments, institutional on/off-ramps, and tokenization use cases.

For developers and institutions building onchain, that expands access to compliant, USD-backed liquidity across supported networks.

[Ripple @Ripple]

The demand for modern, always-on settlement infrastructure continues to grow.

@Mastercard’s support for $RLUSD and the XRP Ledger reflects growing demand for trusted digital assets and blockchain infrastructure that can power faster, more flexible settlement.

[Mastercard @Mastercard]

Today, Mastercard is announcing plans to expand settlement capabilities to include stablecoin, intraday, holiday, and weekend options, giving partners more choice in how and when transactions are settled. That means we’re:

✅ Enabling greater choice to settle in fiat or regulated stablecoins

✅ Improving liquidity management for time sensitive, cross border flows

We’re supporting settlement with @Circle’s USDC, @Paxos-issued stablecoins including USDG,USDP and @PayPal’s PYUSD, @Ripple’s RLUSD and @SoFi’s SoFiUSD across a range of supported blockchain networks including Arbitrum, @Coinbase’s Base, @CantonNetwork’s Canton, Ethereum, @0xPolygon, @Solana, @Tempo and XRPL. ARQ Finance, CBW Bank, @crossriverbank, @Lead_Bank and @Nuvei will be among the first to support.

[北尾吉孝 @yoshitaka_kitao]

暗号資産市場が全体的に下落しているが、その理由は、今後米国で次々と予定されているSpaceX社、Anthropic社、OpenAI社の三大IPOの株式取得のために機関投資家等が資金作りを行っているためだと考えられる。
ファンダメンタル的には何ら懸念されることはなく、特に米国でクラリティ法が成立すれば、Ripple社を含め暗号資産市場に好影響をもたらすことになると確信している。

[Stuart Alderoty @s_alderoty]

Excited to share that Ripple is expanding its presence in Washington, D.C.

Our larger D.C. office reflects our long-term commitment to constructive engagement, clear rules of the road, and responsible financial innovation.

Read more: https://t.co/gAyewDYcdo

[David 'JoelKatz' Schwartz @JoelKatz]

14 years ago, we got together with an idea to build a better way to move value. What happened next was something none of us could have built alone.

And by "us," I don't just mean the three of us.

I mean the developers, validators, businesses, community members, and everyone who helped shape XRP into what it is today.

Happy Birthday, XRP!

[Brad Garlinghouse @bgarlinghouse]

14 years later – still the honor of a lifetime to be part of the XRP family!

[evernorthxrp @evernorthxrp]

1/6 For everyone who's wondered when "real banks" will use blockchain: they already are. The next 18 months will be about how much, on which chains, and under which set of rules.

One of Europe's biggest banks has put its euro stablecoin on XRP. Here's why that matters. 🧵👇

This content is for informational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice. Digital assets involve risk, including potential loss of principal. Learn more about Evernorth: https://t.co/f1nPiu69OG

[Ripple @Ripple]

$RLUSD is now available in Türkiye through three new partners: @BiLira_Kripto, @Bitexencom and @Bitlocom: https://t.co/85syhW1P3m

This is the latest step in a global expansion that has taken RLUSD from launch to a $1.7bn+ market cap in under a year.

The demand for regulated, enterprise-grade stablecoins is global. RLUSD is meeting it.

[Reece Merrick @reece_merrick]

Another RLUSD milestone as @Ripple’s USD stablecoin is now available to institutions in Türkiye

New partnerships with @BiLira_Kripto, @Bitexencom and @bitlocom are bringing our regulated, enterprise-grade USD-backed stablecoin to one of the world's most active crypto markets.

The foundations are in place for Türkiye to double down on its position as one of the world’s most dynamic digital asset markets.

Nearly $200bn in annual transaction volume. A robust crypto asset licensing framework. And now the arrival of RLUSD. Let’s go! 🚀

https://t.co/4adugATO6g

[Ripple @Ripple]

24/7 regulated crypto futures and options trading are here through @CMEGroup, and Ripple Prime is a day-one clearing partner.

Institutional demand meets institutional infrastructure.

Built for always-on markets.

[Mike Higgins @mikehiggins]

And we’re off! @CMEGroup is officially live with 24/7 crypto futures & options trading, providing around-the-clock access to crypto derivatives. @Ripple Prime is a day one clearing and financing partner, supporting always-on markets.

Fun fact: $XRP futures were the fastest ever contracts on CME to cross $1B in open interest, achieving this in just 3 months last year. The institutional demand is there, and now so is the infrastructure. https://t.co/V4k7UBd5Gv

[Bull Theory @BullTheoryio]

🚨Michael Burry just said Elon Musk and Nvidia's deal is built on fake numbers.

Burry published a detailed breakdown calling the entire structure "Fugazi", his word for fake.

He is alleging that billions of dollars in Nvidia chips are being hidden off balance sheets, and that American retirees are unknowingly funding the whole thing.

Nvidia, the world's largest AI chip company sold $5.4 billion worth of its most advanced GPUs, the GB200, to a company called Valor.

Valor is not a real operating business. It is a special purpose vehicle, a shell company created specifically to hold these chips and nothing else. Nvidia also invested $1.9 billion of its own money directly into Valor on top of the sale.

Those 100,000+ chips are now physically inside xAI's data center. xAI is Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company, the one that builds Grok. xAI is using every single one of those chips right now to run its AI models.

But here is what Burry is flagging.

Neither Nvidia nor xAI owns those chips on paper. Valor, the shell company holds legal title. That means $5.4 billion in GPU assets do not show up on Nvidia's balance sheet as inventory.

They do not show up on xAI's balance sheet as assets. They are legally invisible to both companies.

Nvidia gets to book the $5.4 billion as a completed sale and record it as revenue. xAI gets full use of the chips without owning them. And the risk disappears into a shell company in the middle.

Now here is where American retirees enter the picture.

Valor needed $3.5 billion in debt to fund this structure. Apollo provided it. Apollo is one of the largest asset managers on earth with $1.03 trillion under management and $834 billion specifically in private credit.

Apollo raised the $3.5 billion, packaged it into debt securities, and sold those securities to Athene.

Athene is Apollo's own insurance company. It sells fixed and indexed annuities, retirement savings products, to ordinary Americans.

When a retiree buys an Athene annuity, they believe their money is sitting in safe, stable investments. That money is now inside a structure funding Elon Musk's AI data center.

The numbers inside Athene are most alarming.

Athene holds $74.2 billion in reserves. It has moved $217 billion in assets into a captive insurer based in Bermuda, meaning those assets sit outside normal US insurance regulation and oversight.

Of the entire portfolio, 34.7%, equal to $103 billion, is classified as Level 3 assets.

Level 3 is an accounting classification that means there is no observable market price for these assets. No outside party can independently verify what they are actually worth.

The leverage sitting on top of those unpriced assets is 16 times.

Burry's says:
Every step of this structure is technically legal and publicly disclosed. But the entire thing was deliberately engineered across 8 to 12 steps to move credit risk off balance sheets and away from any market pricing.

- Nvidia books the revenue.
- Apollo collects the fees.
- xAI gets the computing power.
- And retirees sitting at the bottom of a 16x leveraged Bermuda insurance structure, holding $103 billion in assets with no market price carry the risk without knowing it exists.

[Messari @MessariCrypto]

State of XRP Q1 2026

Key Update: XRP’s utility continues to grow as XRPL’s feature set expands, particularly for institutional DeFi use cases such as RWAs, stablecoins, and decentralized liquidity. @XRPLF @Ripple

QoQ Metrics📊

• U.S. Spot ETF XRP holdings ⬆️ 2% to $775.4 million XRP (~1.3% of circulating supply)
• RLUSD market cap on XRPL ⬆️ 45% to $340M
• RWA market cap on XRPL ⬆️ 124% to $2.25B (now #4 among all networks)
• Average daily transactions ⬆️ 35% to 2.48M

Ongoing implementation of identity, compliance, and privacy features is also driving value to XRP, as increased institutional adoption on the XRPL means more operations using XRP (reserve requirements, transaction fees, asset bridging, etc.).

[Mr Willy @Emmanuel_Grohl]

@dom_kwok @shahh

[Brad Garlinghouse @bgarlinghouse]

The “Anti-Crypto Army” was defeated…
by the courts…
by the voters.
And by Trump.

It never made policy, legal or political sense.

Combatting financial innovation only helped protect those that wanted to keep an old, often broken, system in place.

[Ripple @Ripple]

Best in the Bay, again!

We're proud to announce that @Ripple has been named one of @FortuneMagazine's Best Workplaces in the Bay Area™ for 2026: https://t.co/nScLT80A4Z

Big thanks to every Rippler who makes this possible. 💙

[Mr Willy @Emmanuel_Grohl]

@Cryptoinsightuk Al parecer la noticia era esta 😐

https://t.co/fCpIvrygwF

[XRP Ledger Foundation @XRPLF]

Today, we’re publishing a new XRP Ledger Standard for AMM v2.

New pool curves StableSwap & Concentrated Liquidity increase capital efficiency and stabilize pricing for stablecoins, FX markets, RWAs and beyond on the XRPL DEX.

Details:
https://t.co/jU9CrXA1tH

[Mr Willy @Emmanuel_Grohl]

@pati_marins64

[The Hormuz Letter @HormuzLetter]

BREAKING: A source close to Iran's Ghalibaf says Iran's "third struggle" plan announced by the IRGC will close Bab el-Mandeb Strait "by fire" and disable the seven submarine internet cables under the Strait of Hormuz, in immediate response to upcoming US strikes that Iran has assessed as "inevitable," for this weekend.

The source adds that Iran will also respond with "next-generation missiles and drones" firing hundreds daily at the Gulf energy infrastructure, and that the US and Israel are playing "Russian roulette" with the outcome being the "collapse of the global economy and unprecedented gas prices."