As AI agents begin transacting on behalf of businesses, payments need more than speed. They need trust, controls, and clear rules for how value moves.
We're helping build the infrastructure for trusted agent-driven payments, with the XRP Ledger and $RLUSD helping lay the foundation for the future of commerce.
We're pleased to be part of the ecosystem supporting @Mastercard's Agent Pay for Machines initiative, helping validate new use cases, establish common rules, and accelerate adoption.
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NEW: @Mastercard has launched a payment system designed for AI agents to transact autonomously, with @Coinbase, @Ripple, @Solana and @0xpolygon among 30+ partners already signed on.
We are sunsetting UpHODL.
Thank you to everyone who trusted UpHODL with their crypto. We built UpHODL because we believe users want to be in full control of their assets, and we're grateful to the community that shared that conviction.
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Plans for the Freedom Ship, a proposed floating city for 80,000 people, are back in the news. The vessel would stretch nearly 1.8 kilometers — far larger than any cruise ship currently at sea — and never dock at a permanent port.
The ship would include schools, parks, shops, hotels, a hospital, and a 15,000-seat stadium. It would run on nuclear power and remain in international waters.
Freedom Cruise Line CEO Roger Gooch told The Telegraph: "We feel very confident that we can put this together, but capitalization is key." The estimated cost is $16 billion. No funding has been secured.
The concept was first proposed in the 1990s and has resurfaced multiple times without construction ever starting.
🚨SCOOP: The House Ways and Means Committee is circulating a package of SEVEN digital asset tax discussion drafts that would overhaul how crypto is taxed in the U.S.
The bills tackle everything from stablecoin transactions, mining and staking, crypto lending and wash sale rules to charitable donations and a voluntary disclosure program for taxpayers with past digital asset reporting issues.
The move effectively breaks apart the broader Miller-Horsford Digital Asset PARITY Act, as well as similar legislation introduced last year by @SenLummis, into a series of standalone proposals.
The drafts will likely feature prominently at Tuesday’s scheduled Ways and Means hearing on crypto taxation.
BREAKING: The Trump Administration and the US Treasury Department are designing a $250 bill featuring President Trump, per the Washington Post.
If this is launched, President Trump would be the first living person to appear on a US currency since 1866.
While most people are focused only on crypto prices… Ripple has quietly been building institutional financial infrastructure at an aggressive pace.
Since 2023, Ripple has spent billions expanding far beyond payments into:
• Prime brokerage
• Treasury management
• Custody solutions
• Stablecoin infrastructure
• Corporate finance
• Cross-border settlement
• Compliance & automation
Major acquisitions include:
• Metaco (2023 — $250M)
Swiss digital asset custody provider serving institutions.
• Standard Custody (2024)
Strengthened Ripple’s regulated custody and settlement infrastructure in the U.S.
• Hidden Road → Ripple Prime (2025 — $1.25B)
Massive institutional prime brokerage acquisition connecting crypto, FX, derivatives, and traditional finance.
• GTreasury (2025 — $1B)
Expanded Ripple into corporate treasury management and enterprise financial operations.
• Rail (2025 — $200M)
Stablecoin payments infrastructure to strengthen Ripple Payments globally.
• Palisade (2025)
Digital asset wallet and custody technology for fintechs and corporates.
Then in 2026, Ripple shifted toward targeted global expansion:
• BC Payments (Australia/APAC)
Added an Australian Financial Services Licence (AFSL) to strengthen Ripple’s APAC settlement and compliance infrastructure.
• Solvexia (Sydney)
Financial automation and analytics platform focused on reconciliation, reporting, compliance, and treasury automation.
This no longer looks like “just a crypto company.”
Ripple appears to be assembling a full institutional financial stack around:
payments, custody, treasury, liquidity, stablecoins, brokerage, compliance, tokenization, and enterprise infrastructure.
And they’re doing it globally.
Whether people love XRP or not, it’s becoming harder to ignore the scale of what Ripple is building behind the scenes.
#xrp #XRPL #crypto
🚨 GOOGLE WANTS TO FLOOD NEIGHBORHOODS WITH 64 MILLION LAB-MADE MOSQUITOES — AND PEOPLE ARE LOSING IT
A video is going viral after people discovered Google-backed mosquito technology company “Debug” has reportedly applied for an EPA experimental use permit to release up to 64 MILLION specially bred mosquitoes across parts of the United States over a 2-year period.
The goal?
Use lab-raised male mosquitoes infected with Wolbachia bacteria to mate with wild females and gradually suppress mosquito populations.
But the internet is spiraling over HOW this operation allegedly works:
• AI machines sorting male vs female mosquitoes
• GPS-guided “Debug vans” releasing them into neighborhoods
• smart traps monitoring insect populations in real time
• data systems tracking where the lab mosquitoes spread
Critics are now calling it “mosquitoes as a subscription service” after learning the system relies on ongoing releases, monitoring, and population tracking.
People online are saying this sounds less like mosquito control… and more like a Silicon Valley Black Mirror experiment happening in public.
Now the comments are completely divided:
• “Why does this sound dystopian?”
• “So now tech companies are engineering insects?”
• “What could possibly go wrong?”
• “Every year reality gets weirder.”
• “This feels like the beginning of a sci-fi movie.”
Others argue:
• Wolbachia programs already exist worldwide
• the male mosquitoes supposedly don’t bite
• and mosquito-borne diseases kill hundreds of thousands of people globally every year
Still, many people are deeply uneasy watching AI, surveillance systems, and biological intervention all collide in the same project.
At what point does “mosquito control” stop being pest management… and start feeling like a live tech experiment on the public?
📹: Instagram/houstonnamati
🚨 YOU’RE BEING PLAYED. By a billionaire casino queen you’ve probably never voted for, but who shapes your country’s future anyway.
Let’s talk about MIRIAM ADELSON, who single-handedly primaried THOMAS MASSIE.
Born in Israel, she built her fortune off Las Vegas gambling, a business model that profits from people losing control of their money. She owns over half of Las Vegas Sands and recently bought the Dallas Mavericks. Miriam is not someone cheering with you in the stands. This is the person cashing out behind the curtain while you scream at a screen or lose your savings out of desperation or addiction.
Miriam isn’t just rich, the problem is that she’s extremely well connected. During his last trip to Israel, Donald Trump said she was probably the person who walked into the White House most often during his presidency. And for good reason. She donated over 100 million dollars to Trumps campaign just like she, and other jewish donors, spent millions to primary Thomas Massie. When she wants to influence something, she writes a check and walks straight through the front door of the Oval Office.
But here’s where it gets even WORSE.
While you pay your taxes, she uses every tool in the book to not pay hers. Trusts. Foundations. Layered corporate entities. All perfectly legal. All perfectly designed to shield wealth, reduce taxes, and consolidate power.
So the money she doesn’t pay in taxes becomes your burden. And meanwhile, she lobbies hard to make sure that the little money you earn, the hard-earned taxes you pay, gets sent abroad. To Israel. Her country of birth.
LET THAT SINK IN.
– She makes her money in America.
– She pays as little tax as possible.
– She walks into the White House whenever she pleases.
– And she helps funnel billions of your tax dollars to a foreign country whose interests she prioritizes.
And it gets even WORSE.
She’s also a prominent supporter of AIPAC. She’s involved in Zionist political organisations that shape U.S. foreign policy. And all of this while running casinos.
Let’s be brutally honest: Gambling is degeneracy. It feeds on addiction, drains the desperate, and robs the weak. It’s legal parasitism. The house always wins. And Miriam Adelson is the house.
Now she owns your basketball team. Now she’s helping pick your politicians. Now she’s shaping your foreign policy. And now she’s doing all of that while carefully navigating a system designed to make sure people like her never really pay their share.
This is not a conspiracy theory. Look it up! It’s all public information.
And if you still haven’t understood it, let me spell out the obvious for you one more time:
🚨You’re cheering for a team she might move to another city tomorrow. You’re placing bets that feed her degeneracy gambling empire. You’re paying taxes she avoids. You’re funding foreign interests you never consented to.🚨
WAKE UP AND FOLLOW ME FOR MORE EXPOSÉS.
“Blue-collar jobs are safe from AI.”
Not for long.
This welding robot climbs vertical steel walls like Spider-Man.
While everyone is watching AI replace coders and office work…
industrial robots are quietly entering the physical world too.
Welding.
Grinding.
Inspection.
Rust removal.
The scary part?
Software automation was the easy phase.
Now machines are learning to work in the real world.