It's pretty wild that most folks will spend their whole lives chasing after money but won't take a little time to learn how to make that money chase after them instead. I've been trying to clue my friends and family in on investing and maintaining their wealth, but only a couple have really listened. It's like everyone's too busy working for their money to learn how to make it work for them. #FinancialFreedom #wealthgeneration
🚨 TRUMP DELIVERS HAMMER TO EUROPE: No More Digital Tax Games
President Trump just fired a clear warning shot:
Multiple European countries are pushing a Digital Services Tax on American companies.
His message: Any country that imposes this tax will face immediate 100% TARIFFS on ALL goods sent to the United States.
This tariff will override any existing or future trade deals. No exceptions. It hits the second they try it.
America will not be taken advantage of anymore.
🔥MUSK’S COMEBACK: X MONEY ARRIVES 26 YEARS AFTER PAYPAL OUSTED HIM
In 1999, Elon Musk co-founded X. com, the online bank that later became PayPal.
A year later, the board ousted him as CEO and replaced him with Peter Thiel.
But the domain X .com did not stay with PayPal. Musk bought it back in 2017, which he later used to rebrand Twitter into X.
Now, 26 years later, Musk is rebuilding the finance app he originally wanted inside X.
X Money is now rolling out to select US users, offering 6% APY on deposits, a metal Visa debit card, and 3% cashback.
The offer beats PayPal Savings’ current 3.30% APY, with crypto integration planned for later this year.
We’re pleased to share that Caleb & Brown has partnered with @Ripple.
A practical upgrade to help streamline USD withdrawals and improve settlement efficiency for a smoother client experience.
Real-world payment utility, delivered through Ripple infrastructure.
🚨 JUST IN: The EU just handed #Ripple a gift. 🇪🇺
Binance, the world's biggest exchange, is winding down across the EU after its MiCA bid failed.
Billions in USDT liquidity now needs a licensed home.
$RLUSD is the rail Ripple already owns the keys to.
Coinbase Lands MiCA License To Serve All 27 EU States
Coinbase (@coinbase) has secured a MiCA license from Luxembourg's financial regulator CSSF.
The license covers all 27 EU member states under one regulatory framework. That is a market of roughly 450 million people.
Luxembourg will now serve as Coinbase's official European crypto hub.
🚨HUGE: JAPAN JUST APPROVED ACCESS TO RIPPLE’S $1.7B RLUSD STABLECOIN
RLUSD can now be used in Japan as a new electronic payment, available to both retail and institutional users through SBI VC Trade.
This puts $RLUSD as the second dollar stablecoin approved after Circle's $USDC, joining JPYSC, a yen-backed stablecoin, in Japan’s regulated market.
Ripple also secured preliminary MiCA approval in Luxembourg this week, pushing deeper into both Japan and Europe.
XRP Ledger has now more $RLUSD on chain than Ethereum. SBI VCTrade is integrating RLUSD on XRP.
People get upset when they see the Ethereum integration and not XRP Ledger right from the get go. Let me explain what they are missing while we travel east 🇯🇵 :
1) RLUSD has been a very strong door opener for the XRP Ledger.
Many institutions and exchanges want RLUSD and because it's also natively issued in large on XRPL, they also integrate the XRP Ledger infrastructure. See for example Binance and other players.
2) This also means other issued assets on XRP have it easier to be integrated with those platforms and institutions.
You need to know that Ethereum and especially ERC-20 tokens are very well integrated historically, even during the past SEC administration.
So when you see programs start with Ethereum, it is because most likely the XRP Ledger integration is in the works.
Things just take time and large organizations move very slow, have absolutely zero doubt that every stakeholder on the XRP Ledger wants the best for this chain.
We're proud to announce that Ripple USD ($RLUSD) is now officially available in Japan, following approval from the Japan Financial Services Agency (JFSA): https://t.co/ChkYMQ6kxW
Through our partnership with SBI Group and @sbivc_official, $RLUSD will be accessible to both institutional and retail users via the VCTRADE platform, serving as a bridge for payments, tokenization, and collateral management.
With $1.7 billion in market cap and a 10-year relationship with SBI, this is a significant milestone in advancing regulated stablecoin adoption across Asia.
Introducing the All-New: Zebec Enterprise.
Employees. Contractors. Vendors. All in one platform for global payroll and HR management.
Bringing streaming payroll to modern global teams. ⛵️
🚨JUST IN: CONGRESS OFFICIALLY PASSES CBDC BAN, TRUMP NOW HOLDS FINAL SIGNATURE
The House passed the anti-CBDC housing bill in a 358-32 vote, sending it to President Trump for final approval.
If signed, the Fed will be blocked from launching a digital dollar or anything “substantially similar” to a CBDC until 2030.
USDC and USDT now get four more years without a digital dollar rival.
🚨BREAKING: JAPANESE YEN CRASHES TO 161.6 PER DOLLAR, WEAKEST SINCE 1986
The Yen is now at 161.6 against the USD, its weakest level in 40 years.
Japan’s finance officials warned they are ready to respond, raising fears of intervention.
The last yen rescue cost about ¥11.7T ($73B), likely funded through foreign reserves including US Treasuries.
Reuters says Japan is reviewing its $1.3T reserve war chest, putting US bonds in focus again.
Walmart just got caught running a secret AI price manipulation scheme with BP, Marathon, 7-Eleven, and many more.
And the way they pulled it off is more dangerous than anything Amazon ever did.
A class action just hit federal court in Sacramento.
The defendants are Walmart, BP, Marathon, 7-Eleven, Albertsons, and Circle K.
Together they run more than 1,700 gas stations.
The accusation is simple:
They allegedly used an AI tool to inflate prices at the pump by up to 22 cents a gallon on gas and 33 cents on diesel.
And they did it while drivers were ALREADY paying over $7 a gallon during the Iran conflict.
When Amazon coordinated prices with Levi's and Home Depot, they left a paper trail behind them.
There were emails, phone calls, and executives literally telling brands to fix their pricing.
Prosecutors could read every single word.
But these gas companies left almost NOTHING...
Every one of these companies fed their confidential pricing data into the same piece of software, built by a company called Kalibrate.
The algorithm took everyone's secret numbers and then told all of them to charge nearly identical inflated prices.
The companies never met, never called each other, and never sent a single incriminating email.
The software did the colluding for them.
Think about what that actually means for a second...
For 100 years, price fixing required a smoke-filled room where executives shook hands on a number.
That room always left evidence behind.
But the algorithm IS the room now.
And "we just bought commercial software" becomes the perfect alibi.
Every additional penny per gallon costs California drivers roughly $134 million a year.
We're talking about up to 22 pennies here.
And this is not some isolated case:
The exact same playbook is already in court against RealPage, the software landlords used to push RENT higher across entire cities.
It started with rent. Now it has reached the gas tank.
There are now more than 60 bills targeting algorithmic pricing moving through statehouses across half the country.
Because regulators finally understand the trick.
You no longer need competitors to conspire in person.
You just need them all to subscribe to the same algorithm.
California passed a law last year called AB 325 that bans exactly this kind of shared pricing system, and this lawsuit is one of the first major tests of it.
Walmart, BP, Marathon, and Kalibrate have not responded to the allegations yet.
But the structure of the scheme is already laid out in the filing, which describes it as an "AI-based trust structure."
And it exposes the danger of AI that only a few have caught on yet:
Companies have figured out they can use AI to do illegal things and then blame the software when someone finally notices.
The algorithm takes the fall.
The executives keep their hands clean.
And citizens pay 22 cents more every time they fill up their tank.
MAJOR COVERUP IN KANSAS CITY, KANSAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Whistleblower footage shows multiple @kckschools officials discussing strategies for secretly hiding students’ gender changes from parents.
“Everybody is kind of figuring out where can we find loopholes, where can we sneak things in?”
“I had a kid come out to me.. and I go, do you feel safe at home? Are you going to tell your parents?”
The footage was obtained by @KellyLohrke who shared it with us.
@usedgov must step in and investigate this district. Extremely disturbing!
🚨MASSIVE EXPLOIT IN CARDANO PROJECT DRAINS OVER $20 MILLION
Cardano ecosystem project SecondFi has suffered a major exploit after a flaw in its wallet generation software allowed attackers to drain user funds.
Security firm SlowMist says the total damage may exceed $20 MILLION, involving more than 129M $ADA and other tokens.
Users have been urged to immediately migrate funds to a new wallet.
MoneyGram is now a Solana Validator
@MoneyGram has deepened its integration into Blockchain Technology by becoming an active validator on @Solana.
The protocol has also joined the Solana developer platform.
MoneyGram will help to secure the Solana network, validate transactions, and contribute directly to its performance.
The Global Payment powerhouse joins @Mastercard to build and scale compliant financial products on Solana.