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[MANTIS | Crypto Insights @Mantis_Crypto_]

The market always survives.
What doesn’t always survive is belief.

Every cycle washes away the impatient, the reckless, the ones who only came for quick riches. But the builders, the learners, the visionaries... they’re the ones who rise with every new wave.

Don’t just hold coins. Hold conviction.
Because when the smoke clears… it’s those who never gave up who define the next era of crypto.

[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.

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@egragcrypto @DigPerspectives "Not crypto" 😡😅 That's all I buy!

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@Tonyxu92 @jungleincxrp Hmmm, insiders and early adopters must not affect any other chain... just XRPL. Interesting.

[David 'JoelKatz' Schwartz @JoelKatz]

@KhaledElawadi @VinceLaBido @saradwinter @bramk Not really. I think bitcoin is largely a technological dead end for the same reason the dollar is. The technology just doesn't seem to matter all that much to its success, at least not at the blockchain layer.

[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

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@BigBudWolf69 @MasonVersluis I hold a lot of shit. And I will continue to accumulate all top cryptos. New cryptos will come, many will go. I'm in it long-term and I have absolutely zero plans of leaving. There is no one-size-fits-all in crypto... Not even BTC.

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@BigBudWolf69 @MasonVersluis

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I have over 200 hours in the game, and still finding new ways to play, new things to try, encounters i've never had before. Ya'll are too greedy. Just enjoy the game, if it's not enough come back in a few months. The devs are doing just fine and i'm thankful to them for the continued dedication towards this game and hope to see it become a household staple.

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@LarkDavis @grok Hey @grok , is Lark Davis sleeping on XRP?

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@Cryptoinsightuk Anyone? 😉

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@SpadesHQ @Kenneth68461744 Opinion: XRP is the best cryptocurrency.

[Lord Belgrave @LordBelgrave]

Nobody is supposed to know this. But as promised, I am sharing this with you.
And I need to be precise in how I say it.

From what I witnessed over the years, Ripple’s escrow was never intended to represent loose corporate ownership waiting to be sold into the market.

It was engineered with intent. Locked supply. Deterministic release schedules. Multi year horizons aligned to institutional readiness rather than speculation.

In the rooms I sat in, escrow was spoken about as effectively pre allocated liquidity. Not publicly assigned, not disclosed, but conceptually reserved. The assumption in those discussions was that a significant portion of escrowed XRP was already accounted for in future system deployments.

Those conversations were governed by extremely tight NDAs and they extended far beyond the United States. They included institutions across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Central banks. Systemically important financial institutions. Multilateral bodies. The IMF and BIS were referenced in the context of global settlement architecture, not marketing partnerships.

I want to be clear. I am explaining the framing that was presented internally. The escrow was treated as committed future liquidity, not optional inventory.

Now look at what has changed.

The shift in tone from these institutions particularly since Ripple secured OCC bank charter approval and the sudden use of language historically specific to Ripple’s framework suggest that long-standing NDAs may be approaching expiration.

When a system moves from preparation to deployment, ambiguity disappears. NDAs begin to expire. What was quietly reserved becomes operational.

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@ARMY_XRP589 @bgarlinghouse @msvadari @Vet_X0 @coinbase You mean Ripple and XRPL 😉

[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?

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@JoelKatz @Justin_Bons Get ratio'd.

[David 'JoelKatz' Schwartz @JoelKatz]

"Permissioned"

Nobody needs or could have any special permission to issue or execute XRPL transactions. In more than a decade, no XRP transaction has ever been censored or treated unfairly while bitcoin miners routinely delay transactions they disfavor for any reason at all

XRP is unpermissioned for the same reason bitcoin is. If anyone were ever to exercise control over the network in a way that was perceived as unfair, everyone else would change whatever they needed to get the fairness back and nobody could stop them.

Why isn't bitcoin permissioned of if miners can collude to undo disfavored transactions? It's simple -- it's because if that ever happened, everyone else would change whatever they needed in order to fix it. Nothing is set in stone and nobody claims or has any right to compel anyone else to run any particular software.

"Low validator count"

Low validator counts work better than high validator counts. It's purely a technical issue. The number of validators has no impact on decentralization, just reliability.

"No stakeholder governance"

Stakeholder governance is a centralizing force. If a minority is disadvantaged by the majority of stakeholders, stakeholder governance works to maintain the harm.

And, in any event, who are the stakeholders of a public layer one blockchain that serves as a public good that should have some special right to govern it?

Say I use bitcoin extensively to make and receive payments in high volume but don't hold any long-term. Does that mean I'm not a stakeholder and should have no say in governance? If you hold a lot of bitcoin for speculation but never actually use it, does that make you more of a stakeholder?

Someone deciding who the stakeholders are somehow and vesting them with power is not decentralizing. Amazon isn't somehow made more decentralized for Amazon sellers and customers by the fact that Amazon shareholders govern it.

"Zero economic security!"

I have no idea what that's supposed to mean. But that's a hallmark of decentralized systems. Nothing is set in stone by someone who can enforce stability or consistency. Anyone can change anything with the sole limitation that they can't force anyone who doesn't agree to go along with their changes.

[Vet @Vet_X0]

wrapped XRP on Solana is cool, asset portability is important and needed.

happy to see that.

i'll continue to champion the XRP Ledger as the place where I want to see economic activity land.

it's the supreme tech for DeFi, sophisticated pathfinding, autobridging using XRP as liquidity for low liquidity pairs, predictable fees and a DEX that was built around the censorship resistant consensus.

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@ScamDetective5 @XRPweeny I feel like this comment will age like milk in 5 years. The speed, cost, and reliability is on XRPL's side and it will become apparent with time.

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@LayahHeilpern Girl, who beat you up? 😂

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@leadlagreport I was the 589th like. Nice.