Austin Faulconer

Seeking joy without sacrifice breeds weakness, low self-esteem, and a life without meaning. Fulfillment is found in the struggle.

[Brad Garlinghouse @bgarlinghouse]

I've been in crypto long enough to know when a moment is real. This is one of them.

10 years of Swell converging with real scale, institutional adoption, and Swell + Apex together for the first time this fall. We've been building toward this moment — see you in New York! @RippleSwell

https://t.co/Kzzcpb9NIB

[Austin Faulconer @afaulconer29]

@Chloe_XRPL I’m tired of hot dogs

[Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru]

BREAKING: 🇺🇸 Senate officially confirms pro-crypto Kevin Warsh as Federal Reserve Chair to replace Jerome Powell.

[RippleXity @RippleXity]

🚨 JUST IN: Mastercard, BlackRock, and Franklin Templeton are actively exploring the $XRP Ledger.

[Ripple @Ripple]

Ripple Payments now gives businesses everything they need to move money globally across fiat and digital rails in one place: collect, hold, exchange, and pay out in both fiat and stablecoins: https://t.co/MQDz248wmX

➡️ Managed Custody
➡️ Unified Collections
➡️ Advanced Liquidity

$100B+ processed. 60+ markets. 75+ licenses.

Corpay, AMINA Bank, Banco Genial, MassPay, and more are already building on it.

This is enterprise-ready onchain finance.

[Brad Garlinghouse @bgarlinghouse]

An extremely pointed message from @POTUS to those who are dragging their feet on CLARITY.

This is, and always has been, about what’s in the best interest of the American people.

[Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper]

BREAKING: IRAN’S REVOLUTIONARY GUARDS SAY THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ IS CLOSED AND WILL SET ON FIRE ANY SHIP THAT TRIES TO PASS, IRANIAN MEDIA REPORTS

[Austin Faulconer @afaulconer29]

@Gemini can we do 10% on golf again this summer? That was dope!

[Chad Steingraber @ChadSteingraber]

Somebody knows something....

Clarity Act signed into law just went vertical on Polymarket... 👀👀⬇️

[Xaman® Wallet 🪝 @XamanWallet]

$XRP + yield?

[Zach Rector @ZachRector7]

Uptick in XRP FUD and misleading headlines from mainstream crypto outlets. Verify the clickbait for yourself and always do your own research.

[Bennett Production @BennettProduct]

Earlier I said cannabis is a plant that brings out who you really are.

Let me go deeper. (@mos_stef shout out to the enlightenment)

Put six people in a room. Pass one blunt around. Same weed. Same strain. Same lighter.

You’re gonna get six completely different experiences.

One person gets baked out of their mind.
One laughs at everything.
One gets paranoid.
One feels relaxed for the first time all week.
One barely feels it.
One suddenly wants to reorganize their entire life.

Same plant. Different reactions.

So explain to me how the plant is the problem.

Cannabis doesn’t install a new personality. It doesn’t force behavior. It interacts with what’s already inside you. It turns the volume up on whatever you’re carrying.

If you’re creative, it might amplify that.
If you’re anxious, it might amplify that.
If you’re grounded, it might enhance that.
If you’re a mess internally, you might feel that too.

That’s why some people don’t like it.

Because it doesn’t numb you the way alcohol does. It doesn’t override you. It reveals you.

Same key. Different locks.

The blunt didn’t change six people into the same version of “high.”

It exposed six different humans.

Maybe that’s the real conversation nobody wants to have.

[bone @boneGPT]

the anti-weed posting is out of control

adderall and SSRIs have done far more damage than weed will ever do

[Eleanor Terrett @EleanorTerrett]

🚨NEW: Wall Street investment bank @GoldmanSachs just revealed it holds $1.1B $BTC, $1B $ETH, $153M $XRP and $108M $SOL.

Goldman has representation at the White House meeting on stablecoin yield today. Its CEO David Solomon is scheduled to speak at @worldlibertyfi Forum in Palm Beach next week.

[TheCryptoBasic @thecryptobasic]

#Ripple Now Ranks Ninth Among the Largest Private Firms Globally With a $50 Billion Valuation.🧵🧵🧵

[Brad Garlinghouse @bgarlinghouse]

@arrington My favorite Warren Buffet quote:

"Be fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful!"

[Austin Faulconer @afaulconer29]

Not fake news!

[John Squire 🇺🇸 @TheCryptoSquire]

🇷🇺BREAKING 🇷🇺

Russia wants to launch regulated financial products based on the price of $XRP.

Regulated markets are not built around irrelevant assets.

[𝗕𝗮𝗻𝗸XRP @BankXRP]

Ripple in Mastercard

Mastercard CEO Michael Miebach confirmed they are moving from "concept to execution" with Ripple. 🎯

🔹 Ripple Partnership: Broadening settlement capabilities via blockchain.

🔹 Stablecoins: Now treated as a native currency on the Mastercard network.

🔹 Agentic Commerce: Launching "Agent Pay" for AI-driven transactions.

[David 'JoelKatz' Schwartz @JoelKatz]

I hate to be a conspiracy theorist, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if this is just the tip of a giant iceberg.
https://t.co/ArqNp0ZhK5

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

BREAKING: U.S. banks?