@BCBacker You’re always genuine with your opinions, bullish or bearish, and explained your reasoning using your TA. People just don’t like it when you go against the herd unfortunately. Been following you since 2020. I didn’t take you advice last bull run, but so glad I did this time. 🙏💪
Thank you President Trump for appointing me as Under Secretary of the Navy and Secretary of War Hegseth for swearing me in and putting me to work. Ready to lead our Sailors and Marines.
This is a very sad day for America.
A life that was taken… the family and children having their father and husband stolen… the sadness… Everyone online who watched it, processing and traumatized by it, with the unknown that will come from it.
God, we need your healing.
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
I’ve said this before - the crypto industry will achieve our goals (and beyond), IF WE WORK TOGETHER. Appreciate the crypto President @realDonaldTrump’s vision of a govt digital asset reserve representative of the industry.
Maximalism is the enemy of the industry’s progress. Glad to see POTUS recognizing we live in a multichain world and that we’re finally moving past Bill Hinman and the Biden administration's SEC’s very broken thinking.
I will certainly continue to champion this while in Washington at the end of this week.
🚨RFK Jr. calls out Bernie Sanders direct to his face! 🔥
"Bernie, you have accepted millions of dollars from the Pharmaceutical industry. In 2020 you were the single largest receiver of Pharmaceutical dollars. $1.5M"
The crowd erupts in applause! LFG!!
https://t.co/ylQezDqyyY
Some thoughts on maximalism… let me say this as clearly as I can – the crypto industry has a real shot, here and now, to achieve the many goals we have in common, IF we work together instead of tearing each other down. This is not, and never will be, a zero-sum game.
• I own XRP, BTC, and ETH among a handful of others – we live in a multichain world, and I’ve advocated for a level-playing field, instead of one token versus another.
• If a govt digital asset reserve is created - I believe it should be representative of the industry, not just one token (whether it be BTC, XRP or anything else).
• Maximalism remains the enemy of crypto progress, and I’m very glad to see fewer and fewer folks ascribe to this outdated and misinformed thinking.
Still riding high from all the Inauguration events in DC this weekend!
From the Crypto Ball, to the VP dinner, to the POTUS dinner, to sitting in the Capitol yesterday - there’s palpable excitement for all the good that’s possible leveraging crypto and blockchain… here in the US (finally!) and globally.
Congrats @JDVance and @realDonaldTrump!
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.