The ACC’s highest ranked team is #15, and the leader of the ACC standings is ranked #16 with 1 loss
Both are behind SEVEN (7) SEC teams, half of which have 2+ losses and all but one have 1 loss
No other sport on Earth has such a rigged, bullshit postseason selection system
By the power vested in me, I hereby officially declare the Miami Hurricanes the state champions after they beat four other Florida schools in the first six weeks of the season (and also beat Notre Dame to boot).
Congrats to the “U”!
07-17-2025
💎 XRP hit new all time high 💎
Only the beginning
If you made it to this point through all the manipulation, the doubt, the cloud of uncertainty
You deserve a round of applause 👏🏽
This wealth transfer was never going to be easy
Still a long way to go
Fasten those seatbelts
Lock in 🔒
Today, @Ripple announced the acquisition of Hidden Road for $1.25B, one of the largest deals ever in the crypto space. But the price tag isn’t what’s most important – it’s that this deal marks a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for crypto to access the largest and most trusted traditional markets, and vice versa.
Prime brokers (along with other key functions historically managed by banks for the most part) like Hidden Road have proven themselves as *the* trusted intermediary for the largest hedge funds, market makers, OTC desks, quant traders and more. Ripple has been a customer of Hidden Road for years, and we know their breadth of expertise firsthand, clearing $3 TRILLION annually for 300+ of the top financial institutions globally.
This is the capital and activity that will tap into XRP and the XRP Ledger’s bread-and-butter – instant, efficient, scalable and low cost movement of value. Instead of waiting for <24 hours to settle trades through fiat rails, Hidden Road will be using XRPL for clearing a portion of trades, and most consequentially, using RLUSD as collateral across its prime brokerage services, including cross-asset (crypto and traditional instrument) trades.
With this deal and the backing of Ripple’s significant balance sheet, Hidden Road will exponentially expand its capacity to service its pipeline and become the largest non-bank prime broker globally.
Ripple and Hidden Road combined are a generational leap forward, ready to truly bring the worlds of traditional and decentralized finance together. https://t.co/UYOOyQ21dG
2025 is here and the Trump bull market is real. For Ripple, this is even more personal after Gensler's SEC effectively froze our business opportunities here at home for years. The optimism is obvious and very deserved.
Today:
✅75% of Ripple’s open roles are now US-based, while over the last 4 years, the vast majority of hires were outside the US
✅We signed more US deals in the last six weeks of 2024 (since the election) than the previous six MONTHS
Team Trump is already jumpstarting innovation and job growth in the US with Scott Bessent, David Sacks, Paul Atkins and others at the helm, and they aren’t even in office yet! Say what you want, but the “Trump effect” is already making crypto great again – through his campaign, and in the Administration’s day 1 priorities.