Fabio

[Brad Garlinghouse @bgarlinghouse]

I've been in crypto long enough to know when a moment is real. This is one of them.

10 years of Swell converging with real scale, institutional adoption, and Swell + Apex together for the first time this fall. We've been building toward this moment — see you in New York! @RippleSwell

https://t.co/Kzzcpb9NIB

[David 'JoelKatz' Schwartz @JoelKatz]

Got my XRP belt on, wearing an XRP t-shirt, holding an XRP rewards credit card at XRPresso … someone pinch me?

[JackTheRippler ©️ @RippleXrpie]

🚨#XRP IS THE NEXT #BITCOIN!

$10,000+ 📈

[Stuart Alderoty @s_alderoty]

Following the Commission's vote today, the SEC and Ripple formally filed directly with the Second Circuit to dismiss their appeals.

The end…and now back to business.

[Fabio @midraves]

@AltcoinBale Done

[Fabio @midraves]

@edward_farina 🙋🏽‍♂️

[Uphold @UpholdInc]

🚨 $XRP ETF APPROVED.

[Brad Garlinghouse @bgarlinghouse]

While overdue in a bunch of ways, this is an incredibly important and exciting step in the continued growth of the XRP market!

[JackTheRippler ©️ @RippleXrpie]

🚨Trillions of Dollars are on the way!

#XRP ETFs ⤵️

[Brad Garlinghouse @bgarlinghouse]

Today, @Ripple announced the acquisition of Hidden Road for $1.25B, one of the largest deals ever in the crypto space. But the price tag isn’t what’s most important – it’s that this deal marks a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for crypto to access the largest and most trusted traditional markets, and vice versa.

Prime brokers (along with other key functions historically managed by banks for the most part) like Hidden Road have proven themselves as *the* trusted intermediary for the largest hedge funds, market makers, OTC desks, quant traders and more. Ripple has been a customer of Hidden Road for years, and we know their breadth of expertise firsthand, clearing $3 TRILLION annually for 300+ of the top financial institutions globally.

This is the capital and activity that will tap into XRP and the XRP Ledger’s bread-and-butter – instant, efficient, scalable and low cost movement of value. Instead of waiting for <24 hours to settle trades through fiat rails, Hidden Road will be using XRPL for clearing a portion of trades, and most consequentially, using RLUSD as collateral across its prime brokerage services, including cross-asset (crypto and traditional instrument) trades.

With this deal and the backing of Ripple’s significant balance sheet, Hidden Road will exponentially expand its capacity to service its pipeline and become the largest non-bank prime broker globally.

Ripple and Hidden Road combined are a generational leap forward, ready to truly bring the worlds of traditional and decentralized finance together. https://t.co/UYOOyQ21dG

[Ripple @Ripple]

Today, Ripple announced it is acquiring Hidden Road for $1.25B– becoming the first crypto company to own and operate a global, multi-asset prime broker. Together, Ripple and Hidden Road are bringing the promise of digital assets to institutional customers at scale, bridging traditional finance and decentralized finance in ways never seen before.
https://t.co/dxNz6sG0JO

[Fabio @midraves]

@bgarlinghouse 🎉

[Brad Garlinghouse @bgarlinghouse]

This is it – the moment we’ve been waiting for. The SEC will drop its appeal – a resounding victory for Ripple, for crypto, every way you look at it.

The future is bright. Let's build.

[Linda P. Jones @LindaPJones]

"Bitcoin is the greatest distraction from the greatest disruption that is coming to financial services."
- Franklin Templeton CEO, Jenny Johnson

[Brad Garlinghouse @bgarlinghouse]

👀

[Brad Garlinghouse @bgarlinghouse]

Some weeks feel like months in crypto...this was one of them. From the @WhiteHouse Crypto Summit to the @CFTC CEO Roundtable and the sheer amount of news announced (hooray for @NatCryptoAssoc!), it’s been quite a few days.

There’s been a lot of talk about what this White House has and will prioritize with their crypto agenda - most importantly, regulatory clarity through Congressional action, as well as a BTC reserve & crypto stockpile, support for stablecoin innovation backed by US Treasuries, and more.

I was extremely pleased to see the incredible support from this administration.

It’s easy to get lost in some of the maxi-induced noise, but there’s so much more to this industry than the infighting and one coin versus another time-wasting rhetoric.

We will – as we’ve always done -- continue to champion the need for a level playing field (and it was great to hear others in the room echo this as well!) and for the industry to come together to move much needed legislation forward in the US.

An incredible THANK YOU to @realdonaldtrump for opening and welcoming us to the White House (amazing contrast to the the hostility of the Biden administration), @davidsacks47 and @BoHines for a truly historic Summit, and @carolinedpham for hosting us at the CFTC!

[JackTheRippler ©️ @RippleXrpie]

🚨JUST IN: Nasdaq has officially submitted a proposed rule change to the SEC to list and trade shares of the CoinShares #XRP ETF Trust!

[Brad Garlinghouse @bgarlinghouse]

Some thoughts on maximalism… let me say this as clearly as I can – the crypto industry has a real shot, here and now, to achieve the many goals we have in common, IF we work together instead of tearing each other down. This is not, and never will be, a zero-sum game.

• I own XRP, BTC, and ETH among a handful of others – we live in a multichain world, and I’ve advocated for a level-playing field, instead of one token versus another.
• If a govt digital asset reserve is created - I believe it should be representative of the industry, not just one token (whether it be BTC, XRP or anything else).
• Maximalism remains the enemy of crypto progress, and I’m very glad to see fewer and fewer folks ascribe to this outdated and misinformed thinking.

[John Squire 🇺🇸 @TheCryptoSquire]

$XRP is the new Bitcoin.

[Brad Garlinghouse @bgarlinghouse]

Still riding high from all the Inauguration events in DC this weekend!

From the Crypto Ball, to the VP dinner, to the POTUS dinner, to sitting in the Capitol yesterday - there’s palpable excitement for all the good that’s possible leveraging crypto and blockchain… here in the US (finally!) and globally.

Congrats @JDVance and @realDonaldTrump!