Mr. Stone

self-employed leisure time crypto and ki enthusiast

[Mr. Stone @MrCryptoStone]

1930s Swing Magic – In the Mood! #history #duet #ai #movie https://t.co/FuEyKErQgh via @YouTube

[Mr. Stone @MrCryptoStone]

Rave from Outer Space – Hong Kong Rooftop Parkour Dance 🔥#scooter #hongk... https://t.co/pHuWpzushG via @YouTube

[bill morgan @Belisarius2020]

24/7 regulated crypto futures and options trading including XRP, and Ripple Prime is a clearing partner including for XRP options and futures trading.

[Stuart Alderoty @s_alderoty]

This is the moment the crypto industry has been fighting for. A 15-9 bipartisan vote is a monumental outcome - and a clear signal that Washington gets it. Thank you @SenTimScott, @SenAlsobrooks, @SenBernieMoreno, @RubenGallego and all the members of the Senate Banking Committee for getting this done.

[Eleanor Terrett @EleanorTerrett]

🚨🗞️NEW: Stablecoin Yield Deal Clears Path for Clarity Act Markup — What’s Next?

A key provision on software developers under Section 1960 is awaiting sign-off from Sen. @ChuckGrassley as the Clarity Act heads into final touch ups before markup. ⬇️

https://t.co/jLeO2VzKYj

[Chad Steingraber @ChadSteingraber]

The real question is, "How much XRP will actually be used to transfer this amount of money?"

That's the key🔑

[Chad Steingraber @ChadSteingraber]

The monster is coming…

13,000 Connected Banks.

$12.5Trillion in volume.

XRP

[Raoul Pal @RaoulGMI]

I started by trying to understand markets. Thirty years later I've ended up somewhere closer to life, the universe and everything. The same four rules keep showing up...

Along the way I've written three frameworks that have shaped how a lot of people see the world.

The Everything Code is what I found when I went looking for what actually drives markets. A debt rollover cycle, managed by liquidity, debasing the currency at roughly 8% a year. That debasement is monetary entropy. Capital routes around it, into whatever can compound faster than the entropy degrades it. Technology and crypto sit at the top of that flow because they are the intelligence layer of the economy. Markets are monetary energy routing toward the highest output of intelligence. The only assets that outperform debasement over extended periods are tech and crypto.

The Exponential Age is the realisation that technology has become the substrate. Compute, networks, energy and intelligence are compounding faster than any institution we built was designed to handle, and the gap between the two is the defining tension of our time.

The Economic Singularity is where this is heading. Somewhere in the next decade the curve of intelligence per unit of energy turns fully exponential, and the rules every economy we know was built on stop applying.

For a long time I thought of these as three separate ideas. Looking at them now, they are three views of the same thing at different altitudes. And underneath all three, the same four rules keep showing up.

Efficiency of Intelligence - The universe rewards whatever does more with less. Every system that survives is better at turning energy into information than the system it replaced. There has never been an exception.

Compression - Intelligence is the act of representing a vast reality in a much smaller form without losing what matters. Brains do it. Theories do it. Prices do it. AI does it. They are not analogous. They are the same operation.

Coherence - Complex systems hold together because their parts synchronise faster than the noise around them. Markets, brains, civilisations, ecosystems. When the synchronisation fails, what looks like collapse is desynchronisation made visible.

Selection - Patterns that copy themselves faster than their rivals dominate the medium they live in. Genes did this in biology. Ideas do it in culture. Memecoins do it in markets. Truth is not part of the selection criteria. Replication is. It always has been.

What the four rules produce, when they operate together, is networks.

The same topology shows up everywhere. The cosmic web. The human brain. Mycelium beneath a forest. The internet. Financial markets. Blockchains. Across fourteen orders of magnitude, the universe keeps building the same shape. That shape is what the four laws look like when you can see them.

The Everything Code is what these four rules look like in markets.
The Exponential Age is what they look like running through technology.
The Economic Singularity is where they are taking us.

Three angles, one picture.

Underneath all of it, energy is the constant. Consciousness is the substrate. The four rules are the dynamics through which one becomes the other.

All of this is one corner of what I call The Universal Code. The same four rules apply to everything else and I mean EVERYTHING... they are universal in the true sense of the word.

[Eleanor Terrett @EleanorTerrett]

While @coinbase has yet to comment directly on where it stands on the current stablecoin yield compromise, this is a strong indicator that negotiations have concluded in a place they can live with.

[Discover Crypto @DiscoverCrypto]

2026, YEAR OF MAX CHAOS

SAME DAY!

TRUMP MORNING: “WILL END AN ENTIRE CIVILIZATION”

TRUMP EVENING: “THIS COULD BE THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE MIDDLE EAST”

Art of the deal or max chaos madness?

[Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru]

JUST IN: 🇮🇷 Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi officially announces "safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz" will be granted for 2 weeks.

[Chad Steingraber @ChadSteingraber]

They are shooting for next week to start the process of getting market structure by end of April.

[Eleanor Terrett @EleanorTerrett]

🚨NEW: SEC Chair @SECPaulSAtkins tells @CryptoAmerica_ the SEC’s long-awaited tokenization innovation exemption could arrive in the next few weeks.

[Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru]

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Senators reach deal with White House to resolve crypto stablecoin yield dispute with banks.

[Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru]

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 SEC approves Nasdaq rule to allow tokenized stocks & securities trading.

[Chad Steingraber @ChadSteingraber]

Tomorrow is going to decide if we are going to get the Clarity Act.

No Save Act, no Clarity Act.

🏁

[bill morgan @Belisarius2020]

That tells me something about the implied valuation of Ripple’s main asset: $XRP

[bill morgan @Belisarius2020]

The Ripple Mastercard partnership

“the next phase of on-chain payments will be built through collaboration”

[Brad Garlinghouse @bgarlinghouse]

3 continents, 4 global office visits, 5 days. Crossed too many time zones to count...
Recently, @MonicaLongSF and I (along with others on the Ripple leadership team) traveled to Dublin, London, Singapore and Sydney to meet with the Ripple Team (many of whom joined from our acquisitions of GTreasury, Hidden Road, Rail, Palisade and Solvexia).

A few notes from the road -
1/ centers of gravity (business and/or employee) are never stagnant, and getting out of the US coastal mindset is imperative. It was incredibly energizing to hear from new and longtime Ripplers on what moves the needle where they are.

2/ Culture cannot be taken for granted. More than ever, we’re championing a maniacal focus and eliminating bureaucracy for employees to be owners. Don’t confuse activity with progress.

3/ Adoption doesn’t happen overnight. Platforms > point solutions. Meet customers where they are, not where they might be in a couple years.

4/ AI is becoming a fundamental part of our products – especially in cash forecasting and liquidity management in real-time for the office of the CFO. Employee productivity may be where AI starts, but the end goal is much bigger.

5/ 2026 is shaping up to be another defining year. We’re in the right markets with the right capabilities across payments, custody, liquidity and treasury management. There's a huge opportunity ahead, and we are making sure XRP is at the center of it.

[Chad Steingraber @ChadSteingraber]

CFTC Selig on the Clarity Act 👀⬇️