MJ Cole🪝| XRPL

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@XRPLlabs| $BTC STOCK 🐋 $XRP since 2016 | DeFi writer & tech | Building trust, freedom, and innovation through decentralized tech.

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨 Official World Cup chances ahead of the Quarter Finals, per Polymarket:

33% - 🇫🇷France
19% - 🇦🇷Argentina
19% - 🇪🇸Spain
16% - 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿England
6% - 🇳🇴Norway
3% - 🇲🇦Morocco
2% - 🇧🇪Belgium
2% - 🇨🇭Switzerland

Comment the nation you think will win👇

[SMQKE @SMQKEDQG]

‼️THE INSTITUTIONAL ADOPTION OF DIGITAL ASSETS IS BROADENING‼️

Documented.📝👇

[BRICS News @BRICSinfo]

JUST IN: 🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran's military says anyone supporting US forces is a "legitimate target."

[Eleanor Terrett @EleanorTerrett]

🚨NEW: Judge Torres from the @Ripple case is back at the center of another big legal battle. This time in @Kalshi's SDNY case, where she just denied the exchange a preliminary injunction, allowing the case to proceed to the motion-to-dismiss stage after finding that New York's gambling laws, as applied to Kalshi's sports event contracts, are not preempted by the Commodity Exchange Act.

[Disclose.tv @disclosetv]

JUST IN - White House prepares for extended military exchange with Iran, for control over the Strait of Hormuz, that could stretch for days or several weeks — Axios

[𝗕𝗮𝗻𝗸XRP @BankXRP]

JUST IN: Clearstream, Deutsche Börse's post-trade arm, expands regulated crypto custody to include XRP, ADA, SOL, LTC, XLM and AVAX alongside BTC and ETH.

The addition reinforces XRP's positioning within MiCA-compliant institutional infrastructure in Europe. Source: Clearstream.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: The Atlantic warns America is becoming “postliterate” as daily pleasure reading has fallen from 28% to 16% — & nearly 30% of adults now struggle to paraphrase or infer from a multipage text.

[SpaceXAI @SpaceXAI]

Grok 4.5 is built for real-world engineering. It excels in large codebases and handles long-running tasks that span multiple repositories, hundreds of skills, and a variety of tools.

[X Freeze @XFreeze]

On CursorBench, Grok 4.5 High ranks #3 at 66.7%, right next to Fable 5 Max & Extra High.....but the insane part is the cost

It's literally $1.51 per task while Fable 5 Max costs $17.32 per task

Even Grok 4.5 Low ranks above Opus 4.8 Max & GPT - 5.5 Extra High

Anyone can chase intelligence by burning more tokens, more steps, more compute. Grok pushes the opposite direction: high performance with less waste. That’s where Grok 4.5 is getting scary good

[jinjingliang @JinjingLiang]

I didn't expect to say this...

But after one day with Grok 4.5 from @SpaceXAI, I've already started moving some of my Claude Code and Codex workflows over.

It's ridiculously fast, and the intelligence is way better than I expected.

Huge props to @elonmusk and the team.

If you're paying $8/month for X Premium, you've already got plenty of Grok usage included. It's worth trying.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Canadian PM Carney declares Trump has "won the argument" on NATO defense spending push.

[𝗕𝗮𝗻𝗸XRP @BankXRP]

XRP Ledger's x402 facilitator has surpassed 1 million agentic payments, according to https://t.co/cT8Yr3IMme. The milestone reflects growing machine-to-machine settlement activity using XRP and RLUSD for API access, compute, and AI inference. Ripple has also launched the XRPL AI Hub, a new ecosystem platform for developers building agentic payment applications. The activity underscores XRPL's positioning as infrastructure for the emerging agentic economy.

[CoinMarketCap @CoinMarketCap]

LATEST: 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev signed a decree to build a regulated crypto market, adding stablecoin payment rules, tax breaks and new mining energy options.

[MJ Cole🪝| XRPL @MJAVADKH81]

@MrCrypto786786 @bitfunded Do you have the detail ID? , I think the session was cancelled fro some unknown reasons.

[MJ Cole🪝| XRPL @MJAVADKH81]

Regulatory clarity finally catching up to the industry 🔥
$XRP

$BTC
#SEC

[𝗕𝗮𝗻𝗸XRP @BankXRP]

JUST IN: SEC plans to release its crypto safe harbor proposal for public comment as early as this month 🇺🇸
The framework would give broad exemptions for tokenized securities and DeFi, cutting enforcement risk for on-chain activity 👀

Regulatory clarity finally catching up to the industry 🔥
$XRP $BTC #SEC

[MJ Cole🪝| XRPL @MJAVADKH81]

First major college sponsorship and its XRP.

[The Wolf Of All Streets @scottmelker]

RIPPLE'S $XRP NOW FEATURED ON ALL UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS ATHLETICS UNIFORMS, THE FIRST-EVER CRYPTO SPONSORSHIP OF A MAJOR COLLEGE ATHLETICS PROGRAM

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

BREAKING: China to reportedly allow top AI firms to buy Nvidia H200 chips.

[Design Arena @Designarena]

BREAKING: Grok 4.5 by @SpaceXAI is 5th on Website Arena with an Elo of 1328.

This is a 25 rank jump over @SpaceXAI’s previous highest performing model.

Trained with Cursor data, Grok 4.5 is in the same performance band as Claude Opus 4.6 (Thinking) by @AnthropicAI, achieving Opus-level coding performance on real world website tasks.

Congratulations to the @SpaceXAI team on the launch!

[Artificial Analysis @ArtificialAnlys]

SpaceXAI’s Grok 4.5 scores 54 to place fourth on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index following only Fable 5, GPT-5.5, and Opus 4.8. It scores on par with GPT-5.5 in Codex on the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index in the Grok Build harness, at much lower cost

Grok 4.5 improves 16 points over Grok 4.3 on the Intelligence Index, bringing SpaceXAI to the intelligence frontier behind only OpenAI and Anthropic, and outperforming all open weights models and notably Google’s Gemini models. Key standout areas of performance are agentic knowledge work and coding.

Grok 4.5 in Grok Build scores 76 on the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index, on par with GPT-5.5 (xhigh) in Codex and just below Fable 5 (max) in Claude Code, and at a small fraction of the token usage and price.

Congratulations to @SpaceXAI, @cursor_ai, and @elonmusk on the impressive release!

Key Takeaways:

➤ Grok 4.5 performs very strongly on agentic tasks. Grok 4.5 ranks #4 on GDPval-AA v2 with an Elo of 1543, between Claude Opus 4.8 (1600) and GLM-5.2 (1513). It achieves the top score on 𝜏³-Banking of 33%, above 31% from GPT-5.5 (xhigh), and sits on the cost vs performance Pareto frontier across all three agentic evaluations in the Intelligence Index
➤ Grok 4.5 is one of the most cost efficient models to run for near-frontier intelligence. It costs $0.31 per task on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index and $2.59 per task on the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index within Grok Build
➤ Low cost for Grok 4.5 is driven by both low pricing and token efficiency. Grok 4.5 has a headline price over 60% lower than Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5, and used ~14k output tokens per Intelligence Index Task - over 60% lower than Opus 4.8. On the Coding Agent Index, Grok 4.5 stands out on the Pareto frontier of Coding Agent Index score vs. Total Tokens, using only 1.9M tokens for the Coding Agent Index while scoring 76
➤ As a coding agent, Grok 4.5 in Grok Build is on par with GPT-5.5 and offers efficiency benefits: In our Artificial Intelligence Coding Agent Index that consists of DeepSWE, Terminal-Bench v2, and SWE-Atlas QnA, Grok 4.5 in Grok Build ranks third, on par with GPT-5.5 (Codex) and below Fable 5 (Claude Code). It is also very efficient in achieving this result: Grok 4.5 in Grok Build cost $2.49 per task while Fable 5 in Claude Code cost $11.80 and GPT-5.5 in Codex $5.07. This is driven by relatively low token pricing and the model using far fewer tokens than comparable models (1.9M average tokens used per task), significantly less than Fable 5 in Claude Code (7.2M) and GPT-5.5 in Codex (6.2M)

Other model details:

➤ Context window of 500k tokens - a reduction from Grok 4.3’s 1M token context, but retaining configurable reasoning and vision input

➤ Pricing of $2/$6 per 1M tokens of input/output; cache hits are discounted by 75% to $0.5 per 1M tokens, and costs still double with long (>200k token) inputs

➤ As Elon Musk has disclosed, Grok 4.5 is 3x larger than its predecessor at 1.5T parameters

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

NEW: Banned Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger says an anonymous “mob” now runs the platform.