A lot of people figure their estate is handled because they've got a trust, then the crypto never gets funded into it. A trust only controls what's titled into it.
Having a trust and funding a trust are two different things, and the funding usually gets skipped.
Ondo Finance's tokenized Treasury fund OUSG went live on the XRP Ledger, with mint and redeem flows built through Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin. Tokenized treasuries now settle on XRPL alongside the traditional venues.
25bps… smh
Now we watch the yen devaluation against the dollar again..
This song and dance is getting old…
Where is the OCC with stablecoin guidance??
I guess Bessent and others need that in place before they are going to let things roll…
Ripple Impact funds blockchain research and philanthropic initiatives alongside Ripple's commercial work. It's worth tracking because the research it funds often surfaces the same primary sources used to document Ripple's payments and ledger work.
Matthew Mellon died holding ~$500M in XRP. The keys sat on devices under other people's names, and his will never mentioned crypto. Recovery took three years.
A will is only a map to assets the estate can actually reach.
KYC is now part of the XRP Ledger itself
The protocol checks your credential before your order matches, and if you don't hold one the transaction fails
Three amendments did it and a lot of people missed it
All live on mainnet, all verifiable on the ripple:native ledger
1/21🧵
The receipts, straight off the ledger
-Credentials went live September 4, 2025
-Permissioned Domains on February 4, 2026
-Permissioned DEX on February 18, 2026
Each date is the close time of the ledger that carried the activation, so nobody has to take my word for it
2/21🧵
Ripple filed a submission with Australia's Treasury describing the XRP Ledger's Issued Currencies feature as a platform for stablecoin issuance, with built-in management functionality for issuers. That's Ripple putting its technical case in front of regulators directly.
Most people think Satoshi’s ~1.1M BTC sits in one giant wallet.
They do not.
The coins believed to be Satoshi’s are spread across ~22,000 early mining rewards, mostly in 50 BTC blocks.
The signal to watch is whether these dormant 50 BTC mining rewards, especially those associated with the Patoshi pattern start moving together.
One moves = interesting.
Dozens start moving = pay attention.
Thousands start moving = something historic is happening.
XRPL's full documentation, covering concepts and technical references alike, sits publicly at https://t.co/QpOrAjH7CZ for anyone to read before they build. Open docs are a basic form of accountability for a protocol that wants institutions on it.
The belief that crypto is private has cost people their freedom. Frank Ahlgren got two years in federal prison after IRS-CI traced every transaction through mixers and cash trades.
Privacy in crypto isn't anonymity. It comes from structure.
If a client's wealth is mostly in crypto, you don't really get to opt out. The only question is how, without blowing up the relationship or rebuilding your firm.
The third option is a sub-advisory sleeve: keep the client, add the capability you never had to build.