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[Cernunnos @NodensHand]

@Belisarius2020 ⵙⵙ7

[The British Patriot @TheBritLad]

🚨BREAKING: The “taking the knee” trend has exploded across Britain.

Thousands are kneeling for Henry Nowak specifically to the track:

Michael Jackson “They Don’t Really Care About Us.”

The left are in a complete meltdown.

[Suffragent @Suffragent_]

Shabana Mahmood has CONDEMNED the Henry Nowak protests in Southampton, saying those responsible will be arrested.

Meanwhile, here she is on a pro-Palestine protest which turned violent and forced a supermarket to close.

She has since deleted this video. Please don't RT it.

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

Two tier policing is well documented now

[Cernunnos @NodensHand]

@LSLS1297 @EyePatchGuy14 @enhanced_games Faster does not mean superior. Some things cannot be measured with a stopwatch.

[Eleanor Terrett @EleanorTerrett]

🚨JUST IN: The Clarity Act ADVANCES out of the Senate Banking Committee in a 15-9 bipartisan vote, with two Democrats voting in favor: @SenRubenGallego and @Sen_Alsobrooks.

Next stop: the full Senate.

[Jungle Inc | Markets & Future Systems @jungleincxrp]

Clarity Act is ready:

JMP doing trials with Ripple

Goldman Sachs biggest institutional XRP holder

Thats not an accident. Its a planned pivot.

[Soil @soil_farm]

Excited to announce our partnership with @Ripple through the XRPL Launch Program powered by @DIFC! 🌐

We plan to be the first fully compliant yield platform on the $XRP Ledger📊

This also means a grant for $SOIL and joining the network of Web3 leaders, VCs & legal experts!

[TrustLinq ⚡ Your Crypto → Their Bank @Trustlinq]

We've added @Ripple Payments to our settlement stack.
Direct crypto-to-fiat settlement from self-custodial stablecoin wallets to recipient bank accounts. 170+ countries. 80+ currencies. No exchange, no off-ramp, no sender-side bank account.
Live today.

[Mastercard @Mastercard]

Today, Mastercard, @OndoFinance, Kinexys by @JPMorgan, and @Ripple successfully completed a landmark transaction connecting a public blockchain with interbank settlement rails.

Together, we’re laying the groundwork for 24/7 global markets that never close.

[CoinSpot @coinspot]

🗞️ This morning Mastercard completed a landmark transaction by connecting a public blockchain with interbank settlement rails.

The transaction was processed in under five seconds on the XRP Ledger and completed in partnership with Ripple, OndoFinance, and Kinexys by JPMorgan.

[J. Ayo Akinyele @ja_akinyele]

Post-quantum readiness on XRP Ledger (XRPL) is not a single upgrade. It is a fundamental architectural shift in how digital assets are secured over the long term. This transition will impact key management, validator infrastructure, and how users interact with the network.

We are introducing a multi-phase roadmap targeting full readiness by 2028, with work already underway to evaluate quantum-resistant signatures, roll out hybrid models alongside existing systems, and define a clear migration path.

In collaboration with Project Eleven and our internal cryptography team, we are working to accelerate this transition for XRPL.

More below ↓

[David 'JoelKatz' Schwartz @JoelKatz]

Here's an ELI15 of this post courtesy of Grok. It's surprisingly good:

Imagine you're a kid with toys (like special coins called crypto) on different playgrounds (different blockchains). Sometimes you want to move your toys from one playground to another without losing them.

A "bridge" is like a magic walkway that lets you send your toys across. But bad guys can try to trick the walkway into giving them extra toys they didn't earn.

JoelKatz (a smart crypto expert from Ripple) was checking these magic walkways for Ripple's own stablecoin called RLUSD (a special coin that's supposed to be worth exactly $1 and very safe).

He looked mostly at how safe they are. He found that most walkways have really good locks and alarms built in — strong ways to stop exactly the kind of trick that just happened to a project called KelpDAO with their rsETH coin.

KelpDAO lost about $292 million (a huge pile of toys!) because someone tricked their walkway (powered by something called LayerZero). The attacker basically sent a fake message saying "give me all these coins!" and the system believed it.

Here's the funny (but not really funny) part Joel noticed: The companies selling these walkways would say, "Look, we have the best super-strong locks!" But then they'd whisper, "But honestly, using the strongest locks is a bit annoying and slow for us to run every day. So most people just use the easy, weaker version to make it simpler and faster to add more playgrounds."

They were basically advertising "super safe!" while encouraging projects to skip the best safety stuff for convenience. Like selling a car with airbags and brakes, but saying "you don't really need to use them if you want to go faster."

Joel thinks that's probably what went wrong with KelpDAO — they picked the easy, simple setup instead of turning on the full strong security features. And now a ton of money is gone.

He hopes he's wrong, but from looking at lots of these systems, he sees this pattern a lot in DeFi (decentralized finance — fancy way of saying "money apps on the internet without banks").

Even when the tech has good safety options, people often choose "easy and cheap" over "really safe" when big money is involved. That can lead to disasters. Always better to use the strong protections, even if it's a little more work!

[Monica Long @MonicaLongSF]

Kyobo Life choosing Ripple Custody to support on-chain settlement reflects where the market is heading. When a leading Korean financial institution brings real assets on-chain, the industry takes note. Proud to partner on Korea’s first tokenized government bond settlement.

[BSCN @BSCNews]

Boundless brings confidential finance natively to XRP Ledger

Boundless (@boundless_xyz) ( $ZKC ) has launched the first zero knowledge verifier directly on XRP Ledger ( $XRP ) in collaboration with XRPL Commons.

This makes XRPL the first public blockchain with programmable privacy built into its core.

The upgrade allows transactions to remain confidential while staying compliant.

Developers now have access to tools, testnets, and open source frameworks.

This opens doors for institutional level privacy on a public ledger.

[CoinDesk @CoinDesk]

JUST IN: SBI Ripple Asia completes development of a token issuance platform on the XRP Ledger and registers as a prepaid payment instrument issuer in Japan, enabling businesses to issue tokenized payments.

[Wealthy Anon @wealthyanon]

Brian Armstrong's entire brand is fighting regulatory capture.

He just held the CLARITY Act hostage a bill the whole industry built for years because it might cut into Coinbase's stablecoin yield business.

a16z called him out. Trump's crypto czar called him out. The White House called it a rug pull.

Turns out the biggest threat to crypto regulation isn't the SEC.

It's Coinbase's revenue model.

[JD 🇵🇭 @jaydee_757]

$XRP - Block all moonboys calling for $1000 last cycle! They became my EXIT LIQUIDUTY making me FINANCIALLY FREE netting me 12x lol!🤣😂

Now focus on my TA that called 0.28 bottom & $3.37 rise!

$0.28 & $3.37 targets were posted for EVERYONE on X!
500 RTs for next TARGET!

#XRPCommunity #XRPArmy

[David 'JoelKatz' Schwartz @JoelKatz]

One last point that I don't make often enough:

We carefully and intentionally designed XRPL so that we could not control it. It's not because we weren't 100% confident we were the very smartest and very best people who could always make the very best decisions. We were confident we were and that we could. We did not lack ego.

But what we also knew was that given the regulatory environment and practical realities of being a company and having investors, there was simply no way we could be assured that we were in control over our own actions.

Ripple, for example, has to honor US court orders. It cannot say no. I think US courts are great and generally issue orders that make sense for good reasons. But could a US court decide that international comity with an oppressive was more important than XRPL or Ripple? We were quite concerned that could come down either way.

We absolutely and clearly decided that we DID NOT WANT control and that it would be to our own benefit to not have that control.

We always want people to trust us. People trusting me is all upside for me. I want as much of that as possible. So does Ripple. But people *having* to trust me or Ripple or anyone else to use XRPL is all downside for us. We knew very early that we wanted as little of that as possible.

We designed it so that we could not own or control it because that was the only way to ensure that nobody could own or control it.

And think about it. Say Ripple could censor transactions or double spend. If we ever did that, all trust in XRPL would be destroyed. It would never make sense for anyone to use that power. And the best way to be able to say "no" is to have to say "no" because you cannot do the thing asked.

Our entire objective in designing the consensus model was to limit its power, for selfish reasons at least as much as noble ones. And the design reflects those objectives.