@marlonbuilds@bgarlinghouse Ironically, the institutions everyone expects to onboard trillions of dollars are gravitating toward issued assets, not mined ones. The market is rewarding compliance, interoperability, and settlement efficiency over mining philosophy. Markets don’t care about your purity test.
Ripple burning $539M of RLUSD mostly on Ethereum.
Rebalancing liquidity off Ethereum and onto XRPL. Burns outpaced mints by $129M, with the biggest single-day burn at $75.1M on June 3.
If Ripple is deliberately pulling RLUSD liquidity closer to its own ecosystem.
@BSCNews The same coverage also notes that a lot of the burn activity happened on Ethereum, which suggests this may be at least partly about where Ripple wants RLUSD inventory sitting, not just demand collapsing or exploding.
If Ripple is burning more on Ethereum while ……..
@michelekirby623 If banks hold XRP as liquidity and don’t constantly reuse it (low velocity), each XRP must be worth more to move the same amount of money.
That’s why some people believe XRP could reach $1,000+.
More money moving + lower velocity = higher value per coin
@michelekirby623 Simple.
If the world needs to move $1 trillion and there are 100 coins available, each coin needs to be worth about $10 million.
If those same 100 coins can be reused 100 times a day (high velocity), they don’t need to be worth as much.
MGUSD live on Stellar isn’t a product announcement. It’s evidence that the settlement layer already exists. The question is which assets operate on it.
MoneyGram’s MGUSD stablecoin is now live on Stellar. Not a pilot. Not a proof of concept. A live USD-denominated payment instrument running on distributed settlement infrastructure.
The CLARITY Act’s commodity classification framework and a live MGUSD deployment on Stellar share the same timeline — not by coordination, but because the underlying infrastructure matured at the same time. Regulatory architecture follows operational reality.
Regulatory clarity changes the compliance workflow. It doesn’t change the investment decision. Two different questions — answered by two different teams.
The CLARITY Act reaching the Senate floor calendar is a procedural step, not an adoption signal. But the classification framework it establishes is the prerequisite infrastructure — the layer institutions need before deployment decisions follow.
The CLARITY Act has cleared the House, a 15-9 Senate Banking Committee vote, and is now on the Senate Legislative Calendar. The architecture of that path matters as much as the headline.
For institutional compliance teams, commodity classification determines the applicable legal framework — reporting obligations, custody standards, legal team routing. That workflow clarity is what’s been missing, not permission to buy.
DTCC and the Stellar Development Foundation have partnered to tokenize DTC-custodied assets — Russell 1000 stocks, major ETFs, and U.S. Treasuries — on the Stellar network. Target: H1 2027.
The counterparty here matters.
H1 2027 is the target. The partnership exists today.
Infrastructure decisions of this type are evaluated months before announcement — the compliance review, regulatory analysis, and counterparty assessment come first.
The announcement follows.
The specific assets selected — Russell 1000 equities, ETFs, Treasuries — represent the core of institutional portfolio allocation.
Stellar becomes the settlement rail connecting those assets to tokenized distribution. That's a compliance-grade infrastructure choice.