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degradable.

[Marco Salzmann 🇩🇪🇻🇪 Ħ² @MarcoSalzmann80]

This image shows some very real overlaps between the so-called “PayPal Mafia” and the fintech and crypto projects that followed.

And strangely enough, many of the same names keep appearing 😉

That isn’t a secret. The PayPal Mafia has been a well-documented Silicon Valley phenomenon since Fortune famously wrote about the network in 2007.

But the @Ripple and @StellarOrg branch makes the map particularly interesting.

Jed McCaleb was part of the group that built the early Ripple/OpenCoin project and XRP Ledger alongside @chrislarsensf, Arthur Britto and @JoelKatz

@JedMcCaleb later left Ripple and went on to co-found Stellar in 2014.

And look at Stellar’s early circle:

@patrickc, CEO of Stripe, was on the original foundation board.
@rabois, an early PayPal executive, was on the board too.
Sam Altman became an advisor.

@stripe also provided the initial $3 million loan that helped fund Stellar, later repaid with 2 billion lumens.

Different companies. Different roles. Different relationships.

But a surprisingly small group of founders, investors and builders keeps resurfacing across payments, blockchain and eventually AI.

The image isn’t a conspiracy map.
It’s a map of documented overlaps.

[crypto.news @cryptodotnews]

JUST IN: Franklin Templeton’s tokenized value on $XRP Ledger up by over 6,000%

The surge highlights a rapid expansion of tokenized assets from the asset manager on the XRP Ledger.

[ThePatrioticBlonde™🇺🇸 @ImBreckWorsham]

BREAKING OVERNIGHT: Simon Andriesz, the British banker who revealed Howard Lutnick’s ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, has been found dead of an alleged "suicide.”

Lutnick, who also profited heavily off 9/11, was later tapped as Trump's Commerce Secretary where he's since made billions for his company by trading on tariff discounts.

[𝗕𝗮𝗻𝗸XRP @BankXRP]

🇺🇸 President Trump just appointed Jay Clayton as the White House AI czar. 👀

If you pitched this in a movie, you’d get laughed out of the writer’s room:

The SEC villain who torched XRP holders in his final 24 hours in office didn't come back for crypto he got promoted to run the "Super Intelligence Force."

Bureaucratic cinema at its finest. Silicon Valley, it's your turn.

What’s your honest reaction?

[CF @fergalpha]

Ray Dalio just said the quiet part out loud.

"If you devalue the money, it makes everything appear to be going up."

The stock market boom is a lie…

What we're really witnessing is the death of the Dollar, not the growth of the economy.

99% of people have absolutely no idea.

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

When I started Coinbase, getting a bank to work with us at all was nearly impossible.
Now Citi is partnering with us to bring stablecoins to institutions.

We’ve come a long way from 2012. Thank you @Citi.

[Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 @FmrRepMTG]

Where are the DOGE checks and tariff refund checks and where is the cheap gas after stealing Venezuela oil and where is the reduction in national debt???
Hey but don’t be a panican!!
Trump is now promising a $5,000 bribe only if you elect Republicans, which will cost $1.35 TRILLION tax dollars!!!
The slop is so sloppy it’s beyond comprehension!!!

[Deep Leaks @DeepLeaksHQ]

FBI Asks Judge to Delay Seth Rich Laptop Release for 66 Years…

Holy sh!t 🔥

[JackTheRippler ©️ @RippleXrpie]

BREAKING: 🇰🇷 @Ripple President Monica Long announced the use of XRP-POOLS to leverage XRP as collateral for funding customers’ payments from credit card institutions.

We are talking here about TRILLIONS of DOLLARS on the #XRP-Ledger!

[X Global @X_Global_tv]

🚨 BREAKING:

Sen. Warner: "There is no threat to the US from Iran. There was a threat to Israel."

He adds: "If we consider the threat to Israel an imminent threat to the US, then clearly we are occupied by Israeli Jews."

[𝗕𝗮𝗻𝗸XRP @BankXRP]

Massive XRP Crowd Turns Out at
@XRPSEOUL

[𝗕𝗮𝗻𝗸XRP @BankXRP]

EVERYTHING CONNECTED WITH @Ripple

[X Global @X_Global_tv]

🚨 BREAKING:

FBI Director Kash Patel agreed to work with Democratic Rep. Jared Moskowitz to push for increased monitoring of Americans on social media who post "conspiracy theories" about Israel.

[King Solomon (Ryan Solomon) @IOV_OWL]

XDC Network Research and Engineering just published XIM, a new interledger protocol designed to connect public blockchains, institutional networks and traditional financial rails.

The architecture draws on concepts from Quant Overledger, Chainlink CCIP and Canton Network, supports ISO 20022, and targets stablecoins, tokenized assets and cross-ledger settlement.

xdce-crowd-sale:native ethereum:0x514910771af9ca656af840dff83e8264ecf986ca canton-network:native

[Jordan Chain @_pblanknews]

Bill Cooper was right about damn near everything

[Stern Drew @SternDrewCrypto]

🚨 GOLDMAN SACHS DROPS DOOMSDAY STATEMENT: U.S. BONDS HAVE NO BUYERS

Goldman Sachs just admitted the long end of U.S. Treasury market is “totally bidless.”

Translation: almost nobody wants the 10- to 30-year debt the U.S. is trying to sell.

No buyers. None. Zero.

While Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent tells Congress we’re in an “illiquid period,” doubles then triples long-bond buybacks, taps the General Treasury Account to fund it and openly says “I am the house.”

Yields are surging anyway. The 10-year has pushed toward 5.3% and the 30-year is even higher, levels not seen in years while Japan, one of the biggest foreign holders, keeps selling Treasuries and bringing money home.

This was exactly warned by Japan’s @yutokanzakireal that the measures being prepared by Bank of Japan will affect the lives of billions of people and apologized to people of the West.

Soon after, Scott Bessent intervened and effectively took over BoJ operations which Japanese policymakers heavily criticized.

If the same ”bidless” condition hits the short-dated treasuries market, the entire U.S. debt market (and global) collapses.

The U.S. debt crisis will turn into a global liquidity crisis.

[ShallNotBeNamed @MFCaskey]

@CryptoNovice20 @BifrostWallet I have NEVER took my FLR off my wallet and it shows the transaction.

Just stumbled upon this post seeing if someone else had this happen.

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

Ever notice that despite being a vanishing global minority at 8% of the population, white majority countries are the only places where “diversity” is pushed?

-India is 100% Indians
-China is 91% Han Chinese
-90% of Saudi Arabia is Arab
-85% of Africa is black

No one ever talks about the need to “diversify” any of these places.

Why is it only forced in the U.S. and European countries?

[Deep Leaks @DeepLeaksHQ]

Dear US Tax payers

Just to let you know, that while you struggle to pay your rent, educate your kids and save something for a "rainy day"

The Pentagon "accidentally" paid Dictator Zelensky an Extra $6.2 billion of your money

"An accounting error"