Now, BG(@bgarlinghouse)is wielding the sword against the regulators, planting the XRP flag, and looking to receive a beer as a gift. You're doing great. Infinite thanks for your efforts...😍
Now it gets really serious on the XRPL.
Institutions are coming on to the XRP Ledger for borrowing and lending amendment with clear commitment. Not a "maybe" or "perhaps". It's happening.
Clearpool provides the infrastructure (Permissioned Vault), Cicada provides the credit expertise (Loan Broker), and Ripple provides the capital (Depositor).
and the borrowers are FinTechs 👀.
Supply capital, earn yield, supply more capital -> Flywheel effect of compounding.
All on XRP using XLS-66 (Lending) and XLS-65 (SAV) features, XRP as native settlement asset across the flow and for fees / reserves.
More usage of the XRP protocol feeds the activity engine. Amazing to see this upcoming and next up is a demo of those flow!
All of the assets listed belong to a new distinct category: government-aligned infrastructure digital assets.💯
XRP: @PalauGovernment deploying Palau Stablecoin/CBDC Pilot
XLM: @mintsyfra Ukraine National Digital Currency Work
ALGO: @RMI_Govt Marshall Islands National Digital Currency Pilot
HBAR: @RBAInfo Australia Project Acacia (wholesale CBDC/tokenized assets)
QNT: @ecb | @bankofengland Digital Euro Partner + Bank of England tokenized deposits
IOTA: @KenTrade_G2B Kenya Trade and Customs digitization
XDC: @IMDAsg Trade documents tokenization across Singapore
ADA: @SERPRO Brazilian Government IT Modernization
These assets were not a designed with the original crypto punk ideas in mind. ⚙️
Instead of avoiding traditional systems, these digital assets were designed to integrate with existing structures and improve them from the inside.🛠️
They were optimized for three practical things:
• providing liquidity so large amounts of value can move smoothly✅
• high-throughput settlement so transactions finalize quickly and at scale✅
• interoperability so they can connect directly with the existing financial system instead of fighting it✅
Speculative projects that are optimized for retail hype and short-term narratives follow the same pattern: pump then dump.🔻
This new category of digital assets will be characterized by sustainable growth and adoption.🎯
And their value will directly reflect the utility they bring to governments worldwide.🌐💸
Documented.📝👇
🥇 $XRP holders are so close to win:
Once Clarity gets passed, a whole new market for crypto will be unlocked!🔓
Your XRP can earn some extra yield at @xora_finance 💰
➡️ Spend your balance anywhere Visa is accepted, with upcoming options to borrow against it without selling
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🚨LIVE: President Trump OFFICIALLY CALLS Out Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse At The Meeting NOW 🤯🔥🇺🇸
ONLY BRAD STANDS RIGHT BEHIND HIS BACK FROM THE CRYPTO LEADERS... probably nothing 🤫
Pooh Shiesty's All Eyes on Shiest album debuts in this week's Billboard 200 top 10.
The Memphis, Tenn., rapper may be dealing with legal issues but he can celebrate a career win. On Sunday (Aug 16), Billboard unveiled the latest 200 chart, revealing Pooh's new album at No. 7 after moving 51,000 equivalent album units in its first week. The total includes 51.59 million on-demand official streams. The album was only available on DSPs.
The placement marks Pooh's second top 10 entry on the Billboard 200. His 2021 mixtape, Shiesty Season, debuted at No. 3 on the chart. It moved 62,000 EAU in its first week.
OMFG! 🚨🚨🚨The Ripple vs SWIFT thesis just got a REAL banking blueprint in South Korea.
$XRP holders, look at what is forming.
Don’t view JB Jeonbuk Bank by itself.
Put it beside what Ripple has already built across Korea in 2026.
🟢Kbank
-Digital-asset wallets + Ripple Custody + stablecoin remittance infrastructure.
🟢Kyobo Life Insurance
-Tokenized government bonds + institutional custody + near-real-time blockchain settlement.
🟢JB Jeonbuk Bank
-Ripple Payments + international business remittances + replacement of the traditional SWIFT/intermediary process.
Three different doors into the same financial system:
👉Banking.
👉Capital markets.
👉Payments.
That’s where this gets insane to me.
Ripple is no longer approaching Korea with one product.
It is touching how money is stored, how assets are tokenized and how international value moves.
Jeonbuk Bank President Park Choon-won even described the partnership as a new growth engine and talked about reshaping the financial paradigm.
Now plug $XRP into that ecosystem.
Ripple says XRP and RLUSD underpin its solutions.
RLUSD can handle stable dollar settlement.
XRP can bridge currencies where liquidity is needed.
XRPL provides the settlement rail.
So imagine this Korean model spreading through APAC:
Korean banks
→ Ripple Payments
→ more currencies
→ more FX routes
→ deeper XRP liquidity
→ larger institutional XRP inventories.
That’s my hyper-bullish thesis.
The huge XRP price catalyst isn’t a bank buying XRP once.
It’s banks and liquidity providers needing XRP again and again as working liquidity while real businesses continuously move money across borders.
South Korea may be showing us the blueprint first.
The rest of the world will follow.
More eyes on the ecosystem also means more scammers trying their luck.
Here are a few simple reminders to help you spot impersonation scams, avoid fake support and keep your assets secure.
Stay frosty. Triple-check everything and take your time:
XRP Holders better be paying attention to what Wall Street is doing...
DTCC is tokenizing securities
Banks are tokenizing deposits
Stablecoins are tokenizing fiat currency
Ripple is becoming core institutional tokenization infrastructure
XRPL is being positioned as the settlement and tokenization platform for these type of assets
We all used to ask if we will see the financial system move onchain...
Now we need to be asking what networks will be utilized to do just that.
Ripple is already providing the key infrastructure institutions and wall street requires.
They have locked in issuance using the XRP Ledger, custody, treasury operations, collateral management, atomic settlement via the XRP Ledger, not to mention the wallet, brokerage, and payments capabilities.
Ripple and XRP are extremely well positioned for what's happening, right now. I believe the XRP Ledger along side Ripple will be one of the core pieces of this new system.
🚨🚨 YOU WON’T BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENS ON THE XRPL 🚨🚨
XRP is LITERALLY the engine powering the entire DEX right now… and almost NOBODY is noticing!
This insane 72-hour live visualization just dropped and it shows thousands of trades auto-bridging through $XRP like it’s nothing.
The protocol is routing everything through XRP by DEFAULT for better prices… and it’s still only at a tiny 0.16% of all trades.
Imagine when this hits double digits.
Liquidity will EXPLODE. Trade quality will go nuclear. The long-tail assets will get swallowed into one massive, unstoppable order book.
This is the moment the XRPL stops being “just another chain” and becomes the ultimate bridge machine.
Watch the video. Feel the chills. The future is already live… and it’s moving through XRP.
Bros, you know I’ll always be honest with you.
I’m one of the biggest XRP bulls on this timeline. I’ve spent years believing in this ecosystem, building on the XRPL, growing $DROP, building Bird, creating content, networking, onboarding people and putting everything I can into this space.
But even I’m pissed off right now.
I genuinely thought the market would have turned by now.
Instead, after all that work, XRP and the XRPL ecosystem have just continued grinding lower.
And yeah - that hurts.
So I’m going to be angry.
I’m going to punch a bag. Hit the gym. Go for a walk. Talk to people. Say exactly how I feel and get that frustration OUT.
Because being a permabull doesn’t mean pretending negative emotions don’t exist.
Feel them. Express them. Deal with them.
Just don’t dump them onto everyone else.
Don’t take your anger out on Bird, strangers in the replies, your friends, your wife or your family.
Channel it somewhere productive.
Then, when you’ve got it out of your system?
Reset.
Research again. Remember why you bought XRP. Remember why people are building on the XRPL. Remember the North Star.
And go permabull again.
This army needs strong people.
People willing to build when nobody cares.
People willing to onboard when sentiment is dead.
People willing to keep pushing the XRPL forward when the price gives them absolutely nothing back.
You’re allowed to have bad days.
You’re allowed to be angry.
You’re allowed to question things.
But negativity doesn’t have to become your identity.
Get it out.
Reset.
Remember what you hold.
Then get back to work.
My anger will be gone by the time you’ve read this post.
XRP is the native bridge asset of the XRP Ledger. This is a live look of the last 72h on the XRPL DEX of trades going through XRP.
It's a protocol native functionality doing this by default. The XRPL routes automatically DEX offers through $XRP if it improves the trade quality.
2 things are interesting here.
1) Because the XRPL DEX is native the protocol captures activity at scale much better than fragmented smart contract DEX's, through auto bridging for the long tail of assets. You simply operate always on the same DEX and that aggregates liquidity and trades.
2) The current usage is 0.16% of DEX trades in the last 72h.
For someone like myself who sees huge potential for the protocol and especially optimized trade quality by going through XRP on the DEX at scale when this number is double digits this is an exciting outlook to work towards.
Damn, this $XRP scenario is starting to feel more real by the day
I just dropped my thesis for subsribers on how Ripple could leverage a Fed master account and where XRP, Ripple’s north star, fits in
I believe approval comes next
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