FranXSamurai

In a blink of an eye everything can change
IN LOVE WITH THE XRPL ECOSYSTEM

[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.

[NotFinancialAdvice.Crypto @NFAdotcrypto]

We don’t hold XRP because of riddles.

We hold for a million reasons based on research we never stopped doing for years while the SEC and MSM relentlessly lied to us about it.

While everyone told us we were fools for believing in XRP, we built a bulletproof thesis on facts and experience (that had nothing to do with riddles) and it only got stronger as the future continued playing out in XRP’s favor.

HOWEVER, in addition to our fact-based research, riddles began providing another angle of speculation, mystery and fun… An escape from the noise and monotony of crypto news cycles and a way to keep learning.

And for that—I continue to be thankful. 🙏

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

𝕏 Money early public access will launch next month

[Flare ☀️ @FlareNetworks]

A major shift just happened for $XRP holders.

For the first time, users can deposit XRP into an on-chain DeFi vault and earn yield directly from their XRPL wallet, without creating a new wallet, bridging manually, or managing gas tokens.

This was enabled by Flare Smart Accounts, a new intent-based execution architecture integrated into @XamanWallet.

In under 24 hours since launch, adoption looks like this on-chain:

• 6.5M FXRP minted & deposited
• 2,944 mint transactions
• 2,478 unique wallets
• 2,166 first-time FAssets participants

Notably, the majority of participants are new to the FAssets system — indicating this is not just internal migration, but fresh activation of XRP liquidity.

This isn’t just another yield vault launch. It represents a new execution path for XRPFi, where cross-chain activity can be initiated directly from XRPL wallet flows.

Engineered for exponential.

[NotFinancialAdvice.Crypto @NFAdotcrypto]

Reminder: You’ve been bullish on #XRP because of the price it has the potential to reach, NOT because of its current price…

And you’ve been confident it has the potential to reach a higher price because of its utility, the people involved, and everything happening in the background… NOT its current price…

So if the current price has never been your reason for being bullish, why let it be your reason for being bearish? 🤨

[Vet @Vet_X0]

Btw, this is more than just RLUSD on XRP listed on Binance.

This is infrastructure to allow issued tokens on XRP to be listed on a Tier 1 exchange.

Door opener for the entire XRP ecosystem.

[NotFinancialAdvice.Crypto @NFAdotcrypto]

A cartoon bear predicted all of this

[Nayib Bukele @nayibbukele]

A las autoridades españolas les gusta darle protección a los delincuentes.

Por nosotros no hay ningún problema: nos ahorran el costo de tenerlos acá. Pero qué lástima por el pueblo español, que luego tendrá que pagar el precio de llenar su sociedad de criminales.

[Vet @Vet_X0]

Crazy to think this was 5 years ago.

My manager at that time shared with me the passion for crypto. He absolutely hated XRP and Ripple. The day the lawsuit news dropped he came celebrating to my desk "Haa i knew it, it's a security!!", he didn't know i was into XRP. I was new at the place so i wasn't looking to debate or argue with him.

Anyone with basic blockchain knowledge understood XRP is not a security, it has no counterparty, no jurisdiction and no issuer - its neutral.

Community bounced strongly and people started to double down on education, digged into the suspicious web behind the scenes - War on Crypto. Amazing leaders emerged who helped us through this time.

In 2022 i build xrp cafe with very close friends, one of the most used services on the XRP Ledger, every event we went to and someone asked "where is xrp cafe based?" and you said "USA" it was always followed with a "ughh i m sorry" or a version of it. It was a negative to have a crypto company in the US.

Now everything changed. War on crypto is over, the Ripple lawsuit ended, XRP is not a security.

Looking at 2026 we are at the cusp of massive adoption parabola with the XRPL and crypto in general.

[Vet @Vet_X0]

Happy Friday to everyone, especially to those with unshakable conviction 🌞

[Chad Steingraber @ChadSteingraber]

You might be scared or worried.

You might be listening to people telling you we are going lower.

They are wrong. We are going nuclear.

Valhalla awaits.

[Brad Garlinghouse @bgarlinghouse]

With today’s close of Hidden Road (now Ripple Prime), Ripple has announced 5 major acquisitions in ~2 years (GTreasury last week, Rail in August, Standard Custody in 2024, Metaco in 2023). As we continue to build solutions towards enabling an Internet of Value – I’m reminding you all that XRP sits at the center of everything Ripple does. Lock in.

[Ripple @Ripple]

Banking, bonds, currency and markets: the entire financial landscape is evolving.

Blockchain is a powerful engine that creates groundbreaking opportunities for global businesses.

Learn how we're making it happen with solutions for payments, custody, stablecoins, and more: https://t.co/DRG2XlWIkv

[BBVA @bbva]

Gracias por recordarlo, Hernán. 😊 En #BBVA seguimos explorando y aplicando tecnologías como blockchain para hacer los pagos internacionales más rápidos, seguros y eficientes. Innovar para nuestros clientes siempre ha sido, y sigue siendo, parte de nuestro ADN. 💙

[RippleX @RippleXDev]

“Without privacy, financial institutions cannot safely use public ledgers. Without accountability, regulators cannot sign off. With programmable privacy, we can have both.” https://t.co/IIBVO2x3CM

Meet J. Ayo Akinyele @ja_akinyele, cryptographer and RippleX Senior Director of Engineering.

In his Ripple Insights post, he shares why he joined Ripple, what lies ahead for XRPL, and how his team is building the privacy, scale, and reliability institutions need to move finance onchain with confidence.

[David 'JoelKatz' Schwartz @JoelKatz]

As happens in one’s life, I’ve been taking stock of my last 40 years. It’s been a wild ride. I’ve gone from consulting for the NSA to watching the early stages of Bitcoin. Then, I met Arthur, Jed, and Chris and worked on coding the XRP Ledger. Now, I’ve spent more than 13 years at Ripple.

I can’t begin to explain the depth of my gratitude to this company, the people who work here, and the community that surrounds XRPL. It’s been one of the greatest honors and experiences of my life, second only to my amazing family.

The time has come for me to step back from my day-to-day duties as Ripple CTO at the end of this year. I’m really looking forward to spending more time with the kids and grandkids and going back to the hobbies I set aside. But be warned, I’m not going away from the XRP community. You haven’t seen the last of me (now, or ever).

The last few months I’ve been tinkering on the side – spinning up my own XRPL node and publishing its output data, researching other use cases for XRP (besides what Ripple is focused on), and more. I truly enjoy this part — getting my hands dirty, talking to builders, coding for the pure love of it — and I’m really excited to get back to that. More to come on this very soon, I’m sure.

But back to gratitude — to Brad and Monica — leaders who have been here nearly as long as I have, and are the very soul of Ripple itself. To Chris, who took a huge leap of faith and never wavered. To Arthur, who had the big ideas every time we needed them. To the RippleX team, ledger developers, community members, builders, and everyone else — it’s been an honor being in the trenches with you all. Thank you for everything you have done for the XRPL. I have total confidence in the next generation of leaders and builders – including Dennis Jarosch (Ripple’s SVP of Engineering) – and far too many others to name in the XRP community who will carry the torch.

I’ll still be in and out of the Ripple office as CTO Emeritus, and as my last task at Ripple, Chris asked me to join Ripple's Board of Directors to continue supporting the company’s mission and long-term vision...and I accept!

I look forward to seeing the rest of you at XRP community events around the world.

– JoelKatz

[Brad Garlinghouse @bgarlinghouse]

Very excited to share that @BlackRock’s $BUIDL and @VanEck_US’s $VBILL tokenized fund holders can redeem shares for RLUSD/ETH 24/7 365 through @Securitize, and soon to come RLUSD/XRPL.

Enterprise-grade instant onchain liquidity at your fingertips. That’s real utility. https://t.co/A0zEHIIpel

[𝗕𝗮𝗻𝗸XRP @BankXRP]

🇺🇸 U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said that the Department of Commerce is going to start issuing it's statistics on the blockchain."

[Vet @Vet_X0]

In crypto you need to be paranoid.

Only the paranoid ones will survive.

Scammers are everywhere, stay vigilant.

[nietzbux @nietzbux]

Ask a man in the early 1800s what railroads would do - he couldn’t think that big.

Ask a man in the early 1990s what the internet would do - he couldn’t think that big.

Ask a man today what crypto will do - most still can’t think that big.

David explained it years ago.

When email came about, people measured it in terms of the Post Office. How many letters do people send per week? So they will send about that many emails. Logically this seemed right.

But with efficiency and ubiquity we got people sending exponentially more messages. Then we got texting. Then tweeting. Etc.

With modernization communication volume exploded. Our old world became unrecognizable.

We’ve only seen crypto be a speculative asset for trading or holding. It has not achieved true efficiency and ubiquity.

When we get there - what will that be worth? What will that volume look like? What will the world of today look like, looking back?

We got into this industry thinking big. Then came the hype and the fraud and the froth and the scams and the distractions and the lawsuits and many became jaded.

But now that we are returning to a world where mass adoption will be real - how can anyone truly know or predict anything?

Predictions are seldom right when it comes to world changing events. I only predict that we can’t think too big, but we can think too small.

$XRP