Thanks to @VincentSco72192 asking the question directly to @JoelKatz in Vegas, we now know that @ripple has built an entire financial system. It has taken me some time to fully grasp what that means as someone relatively new to the XRP community. For anyone else interested in the logic here’s where I landed. See comments below 👇
So you’re telling me Europe delisted USDT to hand the entire continent’s on-ramp to Ripple’s freshly MiCA-approved RLUSD.
Well I’ll be damned, Ripple was indeed the Trojan Horse😳🤫
Big news! 🌍🚀
@Ripple has made a strategic investment in Flutterwave as part of our Series E fundraising round.
We’ve spent years building our stablecoin infrastructure and today it’s live commercially with select merchants.
Together, we’re integrating RLUSD, Ripple Payments, and XRPL to make cross-border payments faster, cheaper, and more efficient.
The future of African commerce is being built now. https://t.co/qZ3hTHrh4X
Breaking news! Mastercard has been granted a BitLicense by the New York State Department of Financial Services (@NYDFS), advancing our commitment to secure and compliant digital asset innovation. 🗽🎉
Learn more: https://t.co/3aNHu3uwx6
$1,000,000,000+ in tokenized stock TVL.
In less than 8 months, Ondo Global Markets became the first tokenized stock & ETF platform to reach $1 billion in TVL, one of the fastest climbs in the history of onchain finance.
Ondo Global Markets has established itself as the standard for tokenized stocks and ETFs:
→ Over 70% market share
→ Tens of thousands of holders
→ Over $18B in cumulative volume
→ Live across @solana, @BNBCHAIN & @ethereum
Since launch, the platform has scaled to 260+ tokenized stocks & ETFs, expanding access to the world's most in-demand sectors across AI, biotech, defense, energy, and more.
The pace of tokenization is accelerating with every new asset class. What took stablecoins and tokenized Treasuries years, Ondo tokenized stocks and ETFs achieved in under a year, faster than any asset class before them.
This milestone reflects a generational shift in how global investors access capital markets, one that is more transparent, more accessible, and more efficient than the legacy system.
One billion down. Trillions to go.
MASSIVE: Ripple is now testing cross-border payments in the 🇸🇦Saudi Central Bank.
Saudi Arabia sits at the center of the $3,000,000,000,000+ global oil market.
BREAKING:
SEC Chair Paul Atkins just said something historic.
"All U.S. markets will be on chain within two years."
Not some markets
Not select assets.
All of them.
Every stock. Every bond. Every derivative.
On the blockchain. Within two years.
The man who regulates the entire U.S. financial system.
Just told the world that Wall Street is moving on-chain.
This is not a prediction from a crypto influencer.
This is the SEC Chair.
The same institution that spent 4 years trying to kill crypto.
Now putting a two year timeline on tokenizing everything.
$50,000,000,000,000 in U.S. financial markets.
Moving to the blockchain.
And crypto hasn't priced this in yet.
Another big week for tokenization.
Ondo completes the first cross-border tokenized Treasury redemption on the XRP Ledger, the Fed addresses tokenization, BlackRock files for two new onchain funds, and more.
Latest tokenization news ↓
1️⃣ Ondo, JPMorgan, Mastercard & Ripple complete first cross-border tokenized Treasury redemption
Ondo processed Ripple's OUSG redemption on the XRP Ledger, with Mastercard's Multi-Token Network routing instructions to Kinexys by J.P. Morgan, which delivered USD to Ripple's Singapore bank account in near real time and outside traditional banking windows.
https://t.co/jdsFtKbLYA
2️⃣ DTCC advances tokenization service with 50+ firms
DTCC is building a tokenization service designed to bring the core of U.S. capital markets onchain. Ondo joins BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, NYSE, and others in the working group.
https://t.co/82FCwsPf1A
3️⃣ BlackRock files for two new tokenized funds
The world's largest asset manager filed for a stablecoin reserve fund and an onchain share class for its ~$6.1B money market fund, both on Ethereum. Both are pending SEC approval.
https://t.co/ITuJjQxyUs
4️⃣ Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook speaks on tokenization
In a speech in Dakar, Cook noted U.S. tokenized assets more than doubled in the past year, and outlined tokenization's potential to improve settlement, collateral management, and intraday liquidity.
https://t.co/Jpcp8Q5BIp
5️⃣ Onchain RWAs cross $30B
Total tokenized RWA TVL crossed $30B per https://t.co/lUoOxl98e7, up over 4x from the start of 2025. Tokenized Treasuries lead at 15B+, while tokenized stocks are up over 21,000% in market cap in under a year.
https://t.co/otP8dKBPxM
6️⃣ Bullish acquires Equiniti for $4.2B
The deal combines Bullish's digital asset infrastructure with Equiniti's global transfer agent operations, serving nearly 3,000 issuer clients and 20M+ shareholders. Closing expected January 2027.
https://t.co/EyqgGPCAL0
🚨RIPPLE GETS BACKING TO EXPAND CRYPTO MARGIN
$567B Neuberger Berman is providing Ripple Prime with a $200M debt facility to expand crypto margin trading.
The fund will help to expand finance clients’ trades across equities, fixed income and crypto.