Mark Cross

Father, Fire Captain and Patriot.
Proponent of the Carnivore diet, physical Fittness and a Crypto enthusiast XRP-ADA-XLM

[James Woods @RealJamesWoods]

This is called a non-zero sum equation, or more colloquially called a “win-win.”

[Digital Asset Investor @digitalassetbuy]

👀👀👀

[James Woods @RealJamesWoods]

Heaven has found its voice. Rest in His arms, angel.

#RipDollyParton

[Digital Asset Investor @digitalassetbuy]

👀👀👀

[Brad Garlinghouse @bgarlinghouse]

No August doldrums in DC this week! It was great to join the inaugural @CFTC Innovation Advisory Committee (a group I've called "the Olympic roster of crypto.") But for a “crypto” gathering, there were a LOT of TradFi players in the room like @NASDAQ, @CMEGroup, @CBOE, @OptionsClearing, @NYSE, @The_DTCC (alphabet soup!)

Everyone was in agreement. Rules written for a different era aren’t good enough. Not for consumers. Not for business. Not for innovation.

I made this case in an open letter to Congress back in 2019. Seven years later, we STILL need clear rules…. Thanks to the Trump administration, appointees like @ChairmanSelig, and a myriad of bold leaders in Congress, we’ve never been closer.

https://t.co/PS1W516Xk5

[Digital Asset Investor @digitalassetbuy]

👀👀👀

[Adam Carolla @adamcarolla]

Agreed

[Dr Shawn Baker 🥩 @SBakerMD]

Great way to end the day!

[rayfuentes @RayFuentesIO]

@KuwlShow @CharlesSchwab @linqtoinc @WSJ @Bloomberg @Ripple @TheJusticeDept @USAO_SDTX Getting good with AI, Rob! 🫡

[Rob Cunningham @KuwlShow]

What scared Charles Schwab about the Linqto bankruptcy case in the Southern District of Texas?

@CharlesSchwab @linqtoinc @WSJ @Bloomberg @Ripple @TheJusticeDept @USAO_SDTX

[Versan | Black Swan Capitalist @VersanAljarrah]

When @Ripple’s CEO is in the White House and the President is telling Congress to pass crypto legislation, you’re no longer in the speculation phase.

You’re in the phase where the system starts getting rewritten around the assets that actually work.

$XRP is one of them.

[Caroline D. Pham @CarolineDPham]

Pro-innovation 🇺🇸 @bgarlinghouse

[𝗕𝗮𝗻𝗸XRP @BankXRP]

🚨 TODAY:📍 Eisenhower Executive Office Building, 2:30 PM ET, WH Crypto Summit

@bgarlinghouse joins President Trump, SEC Chair Paul Atkins, and CFTC Chair Mike Selig alongside Coinbase, Kalshi, and a16z as the CFTC's Innovation Advisory Committee kicks off.

Ripple representing $XRP in the room with the President.

[Lord XRP @Bitforcoinz]

FOLKS✅ Brad Garlinghouse is scheduled to speak tomorrow, Tuesday, August 18, 2026, at the Wyoming Blockchain Symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

He will talk about the future of the financial infrastructur and #XRP

[The Rollup @therollupco]

"Crypto Twitter is not looking" at the biggest bid coming.

A 1–2% model allocation at Morgan Stanley or Merrill = tens of billions in flows, for years.

Matt Hougan on why model-portfolio allocations at the big four wealth platforms dwarf every catalyst you're arguing about.

[Lord XRP @Bitforcoinz]

LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

BIS AND VISA CLEARLY SEE THE POTENTIAL OF RIPPLE AND #XRP AS A BRIDGE ASSET. THE FACT THAT THEY ARE ALL AT THE SAME TABLE, SHARING IDEAS AND EXPLORING SOLUTIONS, SPEAKS LOUDLY.

XRP COULD BECOME A KEY PIECE OF THE FUTURE FINANCIAL SYSTEM. THEY ALL HAVE THE SAME GOAL: LOWER COSTS, GREATER EFFICIENCY, AND FASTER PAYMENTS.

WHO WOULD SAY NO TO THAT? 💥

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨#BREAKING: A Savannah-area DA is preparing to DROP ALL CHARGES against 3 Black men accused of BRUTALLY beating a man at a gas station.

Internal documents cite a “lack of evidence” to move forward…

There’s just one problem:

THE ENTIRE INCIDENT WAS CAUGHT ON CAMERA.

[Daniel Concannon @TooWhiteToTweet]

White 56-year-old husband and father Fredrick Lytton was working alongside Black 23-year-old Devin Rice at a U-Haul facility in West Nashville.

You already know how this ends.

The two men were reportedly arguing about a soda when Fredrick Lytton turned and walked away from the verbal dispute, returning to his work station. Moments later, Devin Rice walked up behind Lytton, pulled out a handgun, and emptied it into Lytton's back, killing him.

Point blank murder, on the job, in broad daylight, over an argument about a soda that Lytton had already walked away from.

Just look at young Devin's angel face. Who could have possibly predicted that such a sweet boy would have such low impulse control?

It's been a week since this Black-on-White murder and, as usual, zero national coverage. Numerous local media have covered the story. Zero have published the White victim's photograph.