As an adult with no kids, it's my solemn duty to embrace the hobbies and adventures my peers no longer have time for, because they've sacrificed their freedom to keep the human race alive. I must travel, nap, pursue whimsical interests, and have fun in their honor.
🚨🚨THIS IS WILD🚨🚨
THE LEGENDARY MIKE TYSON THOUGHT #MLB SUPERSTAR SHOHEI OHTANI WAS A FEMALE, NOT A MAN.
Tyson awarded Ohtsni with the ESPY for best single-game performance for his iconic World Series performance:
“Shohei's a guy???”
😳😳😳
🚨🇯🇵 Japan’s Credit Card System JUST CRASHED Nationwide… Are They Testing Something?
Credit cards down at 7-Elevens, supermarkets & stores across Japan RIGHT NOW. Mitsubishi UFJ & Sumitomo Mitsui payments failing. Cash only chaos.
The timing is no coincidence!!
Ripple + SBI launched $RLUSD at retail via regulated channels.
Circle officially partnered with JCB, Japan’s largest payment network, to enable $USDC settlement across 40 million merchant locations.
This integration facilitates both cross-border commerce and daily retail transactions, allowing Japanese merchants to accept digital dollars through existing credit card infrastructure.
Coincidence?
Or the old system being “conveniently” retired for on-chain stablecoins?
🇺🇸 REMINDER: Tomorrow, July 17, the US House Financial Services Committee will hold a field hearing on how the CLARITY Act could unlock financial innovation.
Ripple published an XRPL AI Starter Kit so builders can wire AI-agent payments directly into the ledger. That's a direct on-ramp for developers building the machine-to-machine payment layer on top of XRPL.
I just want to say something to the XRP community.
We've been through a lot together.
The last few years haven't been easy. The timeline has been tough, the comments have been negative at times, and we've all had moments where we've questioned how much longer we'd have to wait.
But days like today remind me why we're still here.
Seeing XRP creators featured in the DTCC launch video... seeing the excitement across the timeline... seeing everyone buzzing again... it gives people hope.
It feels like another sign that everything we've been waiting and building towards is finally coming together.
And you know what makes me happiest?
Seeing the XRP Army happy.
When this community is smiling, optimistic, and united, I genuinely believe there's no better community in crypto.
Everyone who's stood by XRP through all these years deserves to experience what's coming. We backed a technology we believe can help reshape global finance, and we've stayed when so many others walked away.
Our time will come.
I truly believe it's close.
And when that day arrives, I can't wait to celebrate it with all of you, alongside @bgarlinghouse, @JoelKatz, @Ripple, and the entire XRP community.
We will win 💙
you need to just placebo yourself into health
didnt sleep well? tell yourself you did
tired? youre actually full of energy
depressed? nah, life is magical, youre full of joy
weak? youre strong and powerful
draw a line in the sand, no negative thoughts. it works.
DTCC Day One: Complete
Today wasn't a demo. It was the first day tokenized DTC-custodied assets moved through live production trades — confirmed complete as of 1:15 PM ET, ~40 firms participating.
The full arc:
9:00 AM — J.P. Morgan tokenized Invesco QQQ Trust, one of the world's most liquid ETFs. First named asset, first proof the format holds.
9:45 AM — DTCC + Microsoft confirmed a Cloud First infrastructure partnership.
10:45 AM — J.P. Morgan used tokenized assets to satisfy CCP margin requirements directly with CME Group. Not format — utility. Collateral moved to cover a real obligation.
11:40 AM — SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY) tokenized. The first ETF ever created, now with a digital twin.
12:00 PM — Nasdaq MarketSite displayed the milestone in Times Square.
By 1:00 PM — Treasury repo, Treasury buy/sell, equity buy/sell, cross-chain transfers, collateral pledges, and DVP transactions across both Treasuries and equities, all executed live using DTC-custodied tokenized assets.
None of this required the CLARITY Act.
It ran on a December 2025 SEC no-action letter, inside existing securities law, using assets already sitting in DTC's $114 trillion custody base.
October 2026 is the full launch.
Today was proof the plumbing works.
ISO Ledger 🛡
🚨BREAKING: DTCC, which oversees over $114 TRILLION in assets, will begin tokenizing stocks and US Treasurys with nearly 40 major firms on Wednesday.
The assets include Microsoft $MSFT and Circle $CRCL shares, the $QQQ and $SPY ETFs, and short-term Treasury ETFs.
JPMorgan, BlackRock and Goldman Sachs are among those joining the trial, per WSJ.
Congratulations to @The_DTCC on processing its first-ever production trades of tokenized U.S. securities, powered by Chainlink alongside 30+ major institutions:
• BlackRock
• J.P. Morgan
• Goldman Sachs
• Vanguard
• NYSE
• Nasdaq
• CME Group
• Microsoft
• State Street Investment Management
• BNP Paribas Securities Corporation
• Societe Generale
• S&P Dow Jones Indices
• Citadel Securities
• FTSE Russell
• Invesco
• Broadridge
• Tradeweb
+ many more
With quadrillions processed annually as critical infra underpinning U.S. securities markets, DTCC is now bringing tokenization to the American financial system.
This pivotal industry milestone sets the stage for the official launch of the DTCC Collateral AppChain later this year, where Chainlink is unlocking 24/7 collateral management for DTC-tokenized assets.