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INSANE: 🇺🇸DTCC says it chose Stellar because of its “PROVEN TRACK RECORD” as it prepares to connect over $30,000,000,000,000 in tokenized securities to the $XLM ecosystem.
The “Anti-Crypto Army” was defeated…
by the courts…
by the voters.
And by Trump.
It never made policy, legal or political sense.
Combatting financial innovation only helped protect those that wanted to keep an old, often broken, system in place.
🚨 MAJOR UNLOCK 🔓
Frank La Salla, CEO of DTCC: "Our New Tokenization Service Will Serve As The "Bridge" Between Tradfi and Defi" 🌉
Representing "Just The Beginning of a Much Larger Transformation" 🌐
Ripple Prime is positioned inside a $114 TRILLION on-chain opportunity..
🚀 With all the recent buzz around #XRP, it’s hard to keep track of everything $XRP has been doing
2026 has been a milestone year for #XRP in terms of institutional partnerships, so here’s a quick look back at some of their key partnerships:
⭐️ April 30: Rakuten Wallet addsXRP Integration in Japan
Rakuten Wallet users can now convert Rakuten Points into XRP, spot trade in-app, and spend XRP across 5M+ merchant locations via Rakuten Pay. With 44M users and $23B in loyalty points, this marks one of the largest retail XRP payment deployments.
⭐️ May 4: Ripple Prime Joins DTCC Working Group
Ripple joined DTCC’s tokenized securities working group (custodying $114T+ assets). Supports production launch in 2026 for tokenized RWAs.
⭐️ May 5: Moscow Exchange (MOEX) Announces $MOEXXRP Index
Russia’s largest exchange announced real-time official XRP price index, which will go live on May 13
⭐️ May 6: Ripple Secures DIFC License in Dubai
Comprehensive license granted in DIFC under DFSA for payments, custody, crypto token activities, and money services. Major regulatory win for Middle East corridors.
⭐️ May 6: UBS Discloses XRP ETF Holdings
Swiss bank UBS reported holdings in Grayscale XRP Trust and Volatility Shares XRP ETF via SEC 13F filing. Signals institutional exposure.
⭐️ May 6: Ondo + Ripple (#XRPL) + Mastercard + J.P. Morgan (Kinexys) Pilot
Successful near real-time cross-border redemption of tokenized U.S. Treasuries (OUSG) on public XRPL. Ondo redeemed on-ledger → Mastercard routed → JPM settled fiat in seconds with 24/7 capability
What’s next on the roadmap for #XRP?
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🚨 KNOW: Why The $XRP Ledger + $RLUSD Is Quietly Killing The SWIFT Problem Most People Have Never Solved.
If you've ever sent money internationally, you already know the problem.
You hit "send." Your bank charges $30 to $50 in fees.
The transaction takes 2 to 5 days to arrive. Sometimes it gets stuck in compliance. Sometimes it disappears for a week before someone tells you it failed.
That's SWIFT. The 50-year-old system the entire world still depends on.
Now let's talk about what just changed.
★ The SWIFT Reality
SWIFT was built in 1973. It doesn't actually move money. It only sends messages. The actual money has to crawl through a chain of correspondent banks, each taking a fee, each adding delay, each adding risk.
A single international payment can pass through 4 to 6 banks before reaching its destination. Each one charges. Each one slows it down.
Average international wire transfer:
➥ Fee: $30 to $50
➥ Time: 2 to 5 business days
➥ Cuts off at 5 PM
➥ Closed on weekends and holidays
➥ No transparency on where your money actually is
★ The XRP Ledger Reality
The $XRP Ledger was built specifically to fix what SWIFT couldn't.
➥ Settlement: 3 to 5 seconds
➥ Fee: less than $0.001 per transaction (a fraction of a cent)
➥ Available: 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year
➥ Transparent: Every transaction visible on-chain instantly
➥ Capacity: 1,500 transactions per second
➥ Uptime: 13 years. Zero downtime. Zero protocol exploits.
A SWIFT payment costs $30 and takes 3 days. The same payment on the $XRP Ledger costs less than a cent and takes 3 seconds.
★ Where RLUSD Comes In
Sending crypto isn't useful if the receiver doesn't want crypto. They want dollars. That's where $RLUSD changes everything.
$RLUSD is Ripple's regulated U.S. dollar stablecoin. Issued under a New York Department of Financial Services Trust Charter. Fully backed 1:1 by cash and U.S. Treasuries. Audited regularly.
When you send $RLUSD on the $XRP Ledger:
➥ You send dollars
➥ The receiver gets dollars
➥ The transaction settles in seconds
➥ It costs a fraction of a cent
➥ It works on weekends, nights, holidays — anytime
➥ No correspondent banks. No middlemen. No delays.
It's the speed of crypto with the stability of dollars.
★ The Real-World Impact
Imagine you're a small business owner in Dubai paying a supplier in the Philippines. The SWIFT route costs $40 and takes 3 days. The $RLUSD route costs less than a cent and takes 3 seconds.
Imagine you're a worker sending money home to your family. SWIFT eats 6% of your paycheck in fees. $RLUSD on #XRPL eats nothing.
Imagine you're a corporation managing global treasury across 60 countries. SWIFT settlement delays trap billions in working capital. #XRPL settles every payment in seconds.
This isn't theory. This is happening NOW.
➥ Convera (a $190B annual payments network) is using RLUSD on XRPL
➥ Mastercard, JPMorgan Kinexys, Ondo just settled tokenized U.S. Treasuries across borders on #XRPL
➥ Kyobo Life Insurance is using Ripple for tokenized bond settlement in Korea
➥ K Bank is running on-chain remittances to UAE and Thailand on #XRPL
★ The Bigger Picture
SWIFT moves $150 trillion a year. It is the most entrenched financial network on Earth. But it's slow. It's expensive. It's outdated.
The $XRP Ledger and $RLUSD don't replace SWIFT overnight. They quietly absorb its volume one corridor at a time.
Every payment that switches from SWIFT to XRPL saves time, money, and friction.
★ The Bottom Line
For 50 years, sending money internationally meant accepting fees, delays, and uncertainty.
Now there's a better way.
➥ 3 seconds vs 3 days.
➥ $0.001 vs $40.
➥ 24/7 vs banking hours.
➥ On-chain transparency vs black box.
The $XRP Ledger isn't competing with SWIFT.
It's just doing the same job 1,000 times better.
And $RLUSD makes it usable for the entire world.
BREAKING: 🇺🇸 @EleanorTerrett REPORTS “SENATE BANKING COMMITTEE IS PREPARING TO NOTICE A MARKUP FOR THE CLARITY ACT AS SOON AS TOMORROW AND HAS CIRCULATED DRAFT LEGISLATIVE TEXT TO SELECT INDUSTRY MEMBERS AHEAD OF A POTENTIAL THURSDAY VOTE”
CLARITY IS COMING!! 🙌 $BTC $XRP
Last week we announced that we've partnered with @Ripple to bring $RLUSD to our Unified Order Book.
Here's why that matters ...
Most stablecoins stop at trading. But RLUSD is for payments, card transactions, and real-world settlement, all NYDFS-approved and backed 1:1 by USD.
Today, Mastercard, @OndoFinance, Kinexys by @JPMorgan, and @Ripple successfully completed a landmark transaction connecting a public blockchain with interbank settlement rails.
Together, we’re laying the groundwork for 24/7 global markets that never close.
JUST IN — UNUSUAL
China breaks what is considered the strongest U.S. weapon — the “sanctions weapon.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said:
“We won’t even be talking about sanctions five years from now, because there will be so many countries trading in currencies other than the dollar that we simply won’t be able to impose sanctions on them.”