@Ripple CTO Emeritus @JoelKatz on where XRP is headed:
"Tokenized securities. Money market funds. Stocks. Repos. Loans."
Enterprise adoption is already here. Mass retail is next.
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🚨 MASTERCARD LAUNCHES 24/7 SETTLEMENT WITH USDC, PYUSD AND RLUSD
Mastercard is expanding settlement to support regulated stablecoins on-chain, including on weekends and holidays.
Supported assets will include Circle's $USDC, Paxos' $PYUSD, $USDG, $USDP, and Ripple's $RLUSD & $SoFiUSD.
Early users include Cross River, Lead Bank, CBW Bank, ARQ and Nuvei.
🗓️TODAY: XRP TURNS 14 YEARS OLD!
The $XRP Ledger launched on June 2, 2012, making today its 14th anniversary.
Sadly, the only green candles today were on the cake.
The Stellar network is designed to plug into traditional financial systems, extending their capabilities and enabling new efficiencies.
@The_DTCC is the backbone of the global capital markets. Our role in this partnership is to make that backbone stronger than ever.
🚨JPMORGAN AMONG OTHERS TO USE XRP LEDGER FOR TOKENIZED TREASURYS
JPMorgan, Ripple, Mastercard and Ondo completed a cross-border redemption of tokenized US Treasuries on the XRP Ledger.
The tokenized asset moved on public blockchain rails, while the dollar payout still settled through bank infrastructure.
This is a meaningful step toward 24/7 global financial markets.
By combining the XRP Ledger with global banking infrastructure, this pilot shows how institutions can execute cross-border transactions in a single integrated flow.
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.
🚨 NOW: XRP GOES LIVE ON SOLANA, EXPANDING CROSS-CHAIN LIQUIDITY
XRP is now available on Solana via wrapped XRP (wXRP), enabling seamless movement between ecosystems and unlocking access to Solana’s fast, low-cost DeFi while remaining redeemable on XRPL.
Jesse, Steve, Laddy, and Vlad….such an incredible feeling to welcome you aboard Integrity after a nearly 700,000 mile journey. Forever thankful for your service to our crew and the nation.
🚨 XRP GAINS ACCESS TO JAPAN’S 44M USERS
Japanese crypto giant Rakuten Wallet launches $XRP as a listed asset and payment, letting users buy XRP with loyalty points and spend it across Japan.
The integration connects XRP to Japan's everyday commerce platform, spanning 44M users, 3T+ loyalty points (~$23B), and 5M+ merchants.
Historic First: Artemis II Crew Becomes the First Humans to Witness the Orientale Basin in Its EntiretyBREAKING: In a stunning milestone for deep-space exploration, the Artemis II astronauts have captured the first-ever view of the Moon’s Orientale Basin with human eyes — seeing its complete, majestic structure for the first time in https://t.co/PDp5ThIn0L the Orion spacecraft swept past the lunar limb during its historic flyby, the crew photographed the entire basin in one breathtaking frame, with Earth hanging beautifully in the black void beyond.A 930-Kilometer Cosmic BullseyeThe Orientale Basin is one of the Moon’s most impressive geological features — a massive multi-ringed impact structure roughly 930 km (580 miles) across. Formed about 3.8 billion years ago by a colossal asteroid or comet strike, its concentric rings ripple outward like frozen waves from a stone dropped into a cosmic pond.The outermost Cordillera ring forms the dramatic outer rim, while inner rings (the Rook mountains) mark zones of dramatic crustal rebound and collapse after the initial impact. Because Orientale straddles the Moon’s near and far sides near the southwestern limb, it has always appeared severely foreshortened and partially hidden from Earth-based telescopes and earlier missions. Only now, from Orion’s unique vantage during the flyby, has the full scale and symmetry been revealed directly to human observers.The Shot of a LifetimeThe image was taken through an Orion window as the crew passed over the site at just the right moment — with perfect illumination highlighting every ridge, ring, and shadow. It’s not just a photo. It’s a pivotal new dataset that complements decades of orbital data from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, GRAIL’s gravity maps, and earlier probes.Entering the Zone of SilenceAs Orion continues its trajectory around the Moon, the crew is now heading into the most isolated phase of the mission: loss of signal. For roughly 40 minutes, the bulk of the Moon will completely block all radio communication with Earth, leaving Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen in profound solitude on the far side.They are venturing where only a handful of Apollo astronauts have gone before — deeper into cislunar space, pushing the boundaries of human exploration farther than any crew since 1970.The Moon is yielding its secrets once again… and humanity is watching live.This is what returning to the Moon — and preparing for Mars — truly looks like.