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[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

Yesterday, four institutions settled tokenized United States Treasury debt across borders, across banks, and across time zones on a public blockchain in under five seconds. Nobody connected it to what happened the same day at Morgan Stanley. Read them together and the two-tier architecture stops being a thesis and becomes infrastructure.

On May 6, Mastercard, Ondo Finance, JPMorgan via its Kinexys blockchain platform, and Ripple completed the first near-real-time cross-border redemption of tokenized U.S. Treasuries on a public ledger integrated with interbank settlement rails. Ondo’s OUSG fund, representing short-term Treasury holdings with approximately $610 million in assets, processed the redemption on the XRP Ledger in under five seconds. Mastercard’s Multi-Token Network routed the instruction to Kinexys. Kinexys debited Ondo’s blockchain deposit account. JPMorgan’s correspondent banking delivered USD to Ripple’s Singapore bank account. The entire workflow executed outside traditional banking hours. Ian De Bode, president of Ondo Finance, called it the first time tokenized Treasuries had settled across borders and banks in near real time.

The XRP Ledger was chosen for a reason that matters more than speed. XRPL tokenizes assets via native Issued Currencies with built-in Trust Lines that give issuers the ability to freeze, authorize, and restrict transfers at the protocol level without smart contracts. Ondo controls who holds OUSG. Mastercard controls the routing. JPMorgan controls the fiat leg. Every node in the settlement chain has a compliance switch. The blockchain is public. The assets on it obey.

On the same day, Morgan Stanley began actively testing direct cryptocurrency trading on its E*Trade platform for 8.6 million self-directed clients at 0.50% per transaction. The bank already launched MSBT, the lowest-fee spot Bitcoin ETF at 0.14%, on April 8. It advises clients to allocate two to four percent to Bitcoin. It plans a proprietary digital wallet for the second half of 2026. Morgan Stanley is building every on-ramp to Bitcoin, the one public blockchain that has no Trust Lines, no issuer freeze, no compliance switch, and no admin key at any layer of its protocol.

Two public blockchains. Two architectures. One has freeze switches at every node. The other has none. Both are being integrated into Wall Street’s plumbing on the same day by some of the largest financial institutions on the planet.

The GENIUS Act mandates freeze capabilities for stablecoins. The CLARITY Act classifies Bitcoin as a digital commodity because it lacks them. Mastercard is building the controllable tier’s settlement infrastructure with a $1.8 billion BVNK acquisition and more than 100 partners in its Crypto Partner Program. Morgan Stanley is building the uncontrollable tier’s distribution infrastructure across ETF, spot, advisory, and wallet layers. Bessent froze $344 million in USDT on April 24 under Operation Economic Fury. Nobody froze a single satoshi because nobody can.

The distinction is no longer public versus private blockchain or crypto versus banks. It is controllable versus uncontrollable, and both sides are now being built by the institutions that once rejected both. Mastercard and JPMorgan are building rails for money that obeys. Morgan Stanley is building on-ramps to money that computes.

The architecture is live. Both tiers are being constructed simultaneously, by the same class of institution, for different purposes, on different ledgers. One settles tokenized Treasuries in five seconds with freeze switches at every layer. The other settles value in ten minutes with no switches at all.

https://t.co/vLQh7ydMdk

[Ripple @Ripple]

This is a meaningful step toward 24/7 global financial markets.

By combining the XRP Ledger with global banking infrastructure, this pilot shows how institutions can execute cross-border transactions in a single integrated flow.

[Hedera @hedera]

📢 Global professional services leader @Accenture has joined Hedera Council!

As demand grows for secure, transparent infrastructure to power agentic AI, Accenture will collaborate with Hedera and Council members across three priorities 👇

✅ Delivering trust-based solutions for public sector, financial services, and enterprises
✅ Enabling compliant, auditable systems for regulated industries
✅ Driving innovation in agentic AI use cases like tokenization and AI-powered payments

[David 'JoelKatz' Schwartz @JoelKatz]

This is absolute genius. If anyone connected to this is ever in the SF area, please let me know. I want to buy all of you a beer.

[Ripple @Ripple]

Exciting milestone for @Ripple in Australia! 🇦🇺

Ripple is obtaining an Australian Financial Services License (AFSL). As we continue to bridge TradFi with the next gen of digital infrastructure, regulatory compliance remains the foundation of everything we build: https://t.co/cQXKU6uF8X

With this license, we are doubling down on our commitment to Aussie financial institutions and enterprises, providing a fully regulated, end-to-end platform to move value faster and more efficiently than ever before.

[Brad Garlinghouse @bgarlinghouse]

3 continents, 4 global office visits, 5 days. Crossed too many time zones to count...
Recently, @MonicaLongSF and I (along with others on the Ripple leadership team) traveled to Dublin, London, Singapore and Sydney to meet with the Ripple Team (many of whom joined from our acquisitions of GTreasury, Hidden Road, Rail, Palisade and Solvexia).

A few notes from the road -
1/ centers of gravity (business and/or employee) are never stagnant, and getting out of the US coastal mindset is imperative. It was incredibly energizing to hear from new and longtime Ripplers on what moves the needle where they are.

2/ Culture cannot be taken for granted. More than ever, we’re championing a maniacal focus and eliminating bureaucracy for employees to be owners. Don’t confuse activity with progress.

3/ Adoption doesn’t happen overnight. Platforms > point solutions. Meet customers where they are, not where they might be in a couple years.

4/ AI is becoming a fundamental part of our products – especially in cash forecasting and liquidity management in real-time for the office of the CFO. Employee productivity may be where AI starts, but the end goal is much bigger.

5/ 2026 is shaping up to be another defining year. We’re in the right markets with the right capabilities across payments, custody, liquidity and treasury management. There's a huge opportunity ahead, and we are making sure XRP is at the center of it.

[CoinDesk @CoinDesk]

NEW: @Ripple Prime clients now have access to @Coinbase Derivatives' full contract suite: nano $BTC and $ETH futures, plus $SOL and $XRP contracts, 24/7 in a CFTC-regulated environment.

[Brad Garlinghouse @bgarlinghouse]

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[Markus Infanger @markusinfanger]

A genuinely huge moment for XRPL as traditional finance moves onchain!

Aviva Investors, the global asset management business of leading UK insurer Aviva plc, has announced a partnership with @Ripple with the intention of tokenising traditional fund structures on the XRPL.

Read more about how we will be working with Aviva Investors here: https://t.co/1aNg0QIUkV

[CoinDesk @CoinDesk]

Just in: @Ripple outlines institutional DeFi blueprint for XRPL with compliance-focused infrastructure positioning $XRP as settlement and bridge asset.

[Ripple @Ripple]

Hyperliquid, meet Ripple Prime: https://t.co/xZnpJ9Q5jQ

We’re now enabling institutions to access onchain derivatives liquidity through @HyperliquidX in a streamlined and secure way. Customers can also efficiently cross-margin crypto with all asset classes supported by our prime brokerage platform.

Institutions, welcome to the onchain economy.

[Cassie Craddock @CraddockCJ]

Some more exciting licensing news in Europe! 🇪🇺

A couple of weeks ago we heard from Luxembourg’s CSSF that @Ripple had received preliminary approval for its EU Electronic Money Institution (EMI) license.

I can now share that we have fulfilled the conditions set by the CSSF, resulting in Ripple being granted its full EU EMI license - a transformative milestone that allows us to scale our mission of providing robust, compliant blockchain infrastructure to clients across the EU.

We’re now better positioned than ever to help European businesses transition into a more efficient, digital-first financial era! 🚀

https://t.co/wYvoLZgfBy

[Kryptoguru @Kryptoguru_x]

RT @Ripple: The future of regulated digital assets payments in the UK has arrived! 🇬🇧

Ripple has officially secured approval of both an EM…

[Kryptoguru @Kryptoguru_x]

@CredibleCrypto @JTheretohelp1 @CredibleCrypto I am really confused. You are now referring to your tweet from December 2021 where you claimed the Nov 2021 was not the BTC top and that it would be Q3/Q4 2022, which was actually the BTC bottom. What is it that I don’t get?

[Hedera @hedera]

📢 Global energy company @Repsol has joined Hedera Council!

Repsol will advance Decentralized Digital Identity (DID) on Hedera, with three priorities 👇

✅ Interoperable identity at enterprise scale
✅ Automated wallet-to-wallet KYB/KYC
✅ Tamper-proof credentials that make trust verifiable

Read more: https://t.co/7SjQp0opIA

[Brad Garlinghouse @bgarlinghouse]

30 straight days of net inflows for XRP Spot ETFS ‼️

[Ripple @Ripple]

RLUSD is expanding to Layer 2s using @wormhole’s NTT standard for native, secure transfers and will become the first U.S.-based, trust-regulated stablecoin on @Optimism, @Base, @Inkonchain and @Unichain: https://t.co/P3NyGdu5xu

This will enhance utility for XRP and RLUSD by creating premier liquidity pairs with wrapped XRP (wXRP) across these chains.

The multichain future is accelerating.

[Solana @solana]

BREAKING: XRP is coming to Solana 🔥

[Brad Garlinghouse @bgarlinghouse]

HUGE news! @Ripple just received conditional approval from the @USOCC to charter Ripple National Trust Bank. This is a massive step forward - first for $RLUSD, setting the highest standard for stablecoin compliance with both federal (OCC) & state (NYDFS) oversight.

To the banking lobbyists �� your anti-competitive tactics are transparent. You’ve complained that crypto isn’t playing by the same rules, but here’s the crypto industry – directly under the OCC's supervision and standards – prioritizing compliance, trust and innovation to the benefit of consumers. What are you so afraid of?

[David 'JoelKatz' Schwartz @JoelKatz]

More XRP ecosystems is a good thing. Letting XRP operate in more environments builds utility, and the XRPL remains the anchor that makes it all work.