Jake_Claver

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[Jake_Claver @Jake_Clavetd2]

The $XRP Ledger could soon let your compliance team freeze a flagged holder without the issuer's keys

29 of 35 validators vote yes and the earliest activation is Oct 8, but one vote could still push that date back
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[Jake_Claver @Jake_Clavetd2]

The XRP Ledger keeps leveling up with tools like smart escrows and deeper programmability Think DeFi primitives running directly on the base layer Builders will be able to launch full-scale DeFi apps on XRP without a smart-contract layer bolted on top.

[Jake_Claver @Jake_Clavetd2]

Matthew Mellon died holding ~$500M in XRP. The keys were on devices under other people's names, and his will didn't mention any of it. Nobody knew where they were.

What makes crypto hard to seize makes it hard to inherit.

[Jake_Claver @Jake_Clavetd2]

A common crypto structure is a Wyoming LLC owned by a trust, and people ask why both. The LLC handles the legal layer: titled to an entity, with charging-order protection. The trust handles succession and privacy: a successor trustee takes over without probate.

[Jake_Claver @Jake_Clavetd2]

The utility vs. speculation debate is over. Some people are still having it
Utility projects are building for real-world use right now
The next repricing happens when the market notices that utility going live

[Jake_Claver @Jake_Clavetd2]

The U.S. Treasury has been tracking distributed ledger use in trade settlement, custody, and identity since at least 2018, with tokenized fiat already part of the conversation. Ripple's infrastructure sits inside that broader shift toward digital trade rails.

[Jake_Claver @Jake_Clavetd2]

XRP was built to upgrade the existing financial systemBlockchain can do more than store value. It can move it, quickly, between parties that don't share rails
That takes infrastructure built for through put

[Jake_Claver @Jake_Clavetd2]

Multi-family offices hit a sharper held-away problem. A principal bought crypto years ago and never put it under the office's oversight, so it's a material position they can barely see.
The governance that covers everything else stops at the wallet.

[Jake_Claver @Jake_Clavetd2]

The UAE central bank published a rulebook for payment token services that Ripple has pointed to as a blueprint for stablecoin regulation in the region. Clear rules like this are usually the precondition for stablecoins doing real settlement work, not an afterthought.

[Jake_Claver @Jake_Clavetd2]

Ripple partnered with Wormhole to link the XRP
Ledger and XRPL EVM sidechain into
Wormhole's cross-chain network. That's another bridge connecting XRPL to the broader multichain ecosystem, on top of what already exists.

[Jake_Claver @Jake_Clavetd2]

DAG Wealth, in partnership with Parataxis Capital Management, has launched the Parataxis Systematic Trading Strategy, giving XRP holders a way to potentially earn returns on XRP that is held in a separately managed account with Anchorage Digital. For this strategy.

[Jake_Claver @Jake_Clavetd2]

If you died in your sleep tonight, could your family reach your crypto within 90 days?

A lot of people with a real position can't answer without a pause. And that pause is usually the answer.
Keys in one head, docs written for stocks, nobody else knows.

[Jake_Claver @Jake_Clavetd2]

A lot of people figure their estate is handled because they've got a trust, then the crypto never gets funded into it. A trust only controls what's titled into it.

Having a trust and funding a trust are two different things, and the funding usually gets skipped.

[Jake_Claver @Jake_Clavetd2]

Now we watch the yen devaluation against the dollar again..
This song and dance is getting old...
Where is the OCC with stablecoin guidance??
I guess Bessent and others need that in place before they are going to let things roll...

[Jake_Claver @Jake_Clavetd2]

Palau's stablecoin runs on Ripple's technology specifically because it avoids the energy demands of mining-based cryptocurrency, according to the government's own FAQ. That's an operational reason a small nation picked this rail over Bitcoin.

[Jake_Claver @Jake_Clavetd2]

When the QuadrigaCX founder died, his widow handed millions to a court-appointed monitor.
She'd married into a position nobody showed her how to navigate.
If something happened to you this week, would your spouse know who to call?

[Jake_Claver @Jake_Clavetd2]

XRP has a purpose beyond speculation

While others compete to be digital gold, XRP solves a specific problem, and it was designed that way on purpose
That's the bet

[Jake_Claver @Jake_Clavetd2]

1 Really enjoyed the chat this morning here at
HDAX with Brad Garlinghouse and Esther George.

Brad reiterated that the vote today has no barring on XRP and Ripples business based on the legal precedent set in their court case with the SEC 3 years ago.
XRP has clarity.

[Jake_Claver @Jake_Clavetd2]

XRP keeps stepping further into its role as an interoperable settlement layer for global finance

[Jake_Claver @Jake_Clavetd2]

Ripple expanded its multichain interoperability infrastructure by partnering with Wormhole, connecting the XRP Ledger and XRPL EVM sidechain to Wormhole's cross-chain network.
That widens which chains can move assets in and out of XRPL directly.