Tom Lafferty

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[Tom Lafferty @Strategy_7702]

Every time

[Manliness Norms ⚡ @ManlinessNorms]

Men, stay disciplined. I beg you.

[Tom Lafferty @Strategy_7702]

Hopefully this starts a trend.

[Shruti @heyshrutimishra]

Elon just created 4,400 millionaires in a single day.

400 of them are now worth over $100 million.

These aren't VCs. They're SpaceX employees, and the list includes welders, technicians, and cafeteria staff, because for two decades the company paid every level of the workforce in stock instead of higher salaries.

Juan Hernandez immigrated from Mexico and took a $28 an hour contractor welding job in 2015. He says he didn't even know what SpaceX was. The company gave him a $10,000 equity grant and let him buy more shares through payroll deductions. That stake is now worth $880,000.

Trevor Hise's parents wanted him to take a stable job at General Electric. He picked SpaceX instead, stayed 12 years, and accumulated over 100,000 shares. At the $135 listing price that's $13.5 million. He's 37 and semiretired. His words: "The magnitude of this has been ridiculous."

The most telling detail came before the listing. Over 100 employees quietly banded together and negotiated a group wealth management deal covering up to $5 billion, because none of them had ever needed a wealth manager before.

Software IPOs have minted millionaires for 30 years. This is the first one where the money went to the factory floor.

[Tom Lafferty @Strategy_7702]

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[King Solomon (Ryan Solomon) @IOV_OWL]

Trillions are coming to Canton Network

The document I found confirms Canton is the settlement layer for the entire DLT repo market per the International Capital Market Association:

The Proof:

ICMA writes the standards every bank, central bank, and capital markets institution operates under globally.

Directly from their document:

"Only Broadridge's DLR and JP Morgan Chase's Kinexys had been in regular and substantial commercial use by the end of 2025."

"What has commonly been described as the 'DLT repo market' was, by the end of 2025, almost entirely composed of these two distinct and isolated pools of activity."

Canton appears across 9+ catalogued ICMA transactions 2017-2025, working alongside banks and entities such as: BNY Mellon, BNP Paribas, Barclays, Citi, NatWest, SocGen, DRW, UBS, DBS, Tradeweb, DTC, and a 2023 pilot with 45 institutions at once.

The London Stock Exchange Group's DiSH platform settles its tokenized cash through Canton Network: named participants including Euroclear, Euronext, Citadel Securities, Societe Generale, Tradeweb, Virtu Financial, Cumberland DRW, and TreasurySpring.

Broadridge's DLR is the world's largest platform settling tokenized real assets. It runs on Canton, tokenizing $354,000,000,000 a day. Broadridge's technology overall underpins $15,000,000,000,000 in daily trading across tokenized and traditional securities.

April 2026: Broadridge and Digital Asset co-invested in HQLAX's migration to Canton, bringing European collateral pools on-chain.

January 2026: JPMorgan announced JPM Coin moving natively to Canton, a bank with a balance sheet over $4 trillion.

DTCC is separately tokenizing US Treasuries on Canton. The US Treasury market alone is worth over $28 trillion outstanding.

$354 billion a day is already flowing. Trillions in assets are now lining up to move onchain.

All of this is happening on Canton Network.

canton-network:native $XRP $HBAR $SOL $LINK $QNT $XDC

From the document 👇

[Tom Lafferty @Strategy_7702]

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[SMQKE @SMQKEDQG]

The speed of XRP’s growth will shock everyone.😶‍🌫️

Years ago, Ripple ran a pilot for XRP-based payments across the U.S. to Mexico corridor.

The pilot succeeded.🤝

Every participant saw positive results. And one detail stood out above everything else.

Mexican banks asked Ripple to SLOW DOWN the payments. 🙇‍♂️

XRP was processing transactions FASTER than the banks could handle on their end.💨

Think about that.

XRP settles a standard bank transaction before the bank itself can finish processing it.💯

That was one corridor.

Ripple has payment corridors mapped across the globe. 🌎

When XRP is activated across ALL of them, the volume and velocity of settlements will be unlike anything the banking system has ever operated at before.☝️

The same way Mexican banks were introduced to a new standard of speed in that pilot, financial institutions worldwide will experience that same upgrade at scale.📈

Processing speeds they have never had access to.

Settlement windows that free up capital faster.

Efficiency the current system has been waiting for.

XRP will sit at the center of that upgrade.🌐

Moving faster than anyone can comprehend.😏💨

Listen closely.👇

[Tom Lafferty @Strategy_7702]

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[WatersAbove @WatersAbve]

The pain leaves when it’s done teaching you

#XRPCommunity

[Tom Lafferty @Strategy_7702]

@WatersAbve Is that the galactic federation meet up?

[Tom Lafferty @Strategy_7702]

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[Tom Lafferty @Strategy_7702]

Patiently awaiting the market to come to me

[🇬🇧 ChartNerd 📊 @ChartNerdTA]

One of our $XRP signals just fired! 👏

Price has returned home to the lower regression band of the Gaussian Channel on the 2W timeframe ($1.04). This behaviour consistently repeated during prior cycles and we mapped it again in 2026.

Welcome to the land of macro opportunity 🥂

[Tom Lafferty @Strategy_7702]

Patience

[MARMOT @Web3Marmot]

🚨 DON'T BE EXIT LIQUIDITY

Tomorrow SpaceX is going public at $2 TRILLION.

This isn’t just an IPO.

This is one of the biggest insider cash-outs in history.

The crowd sees an opportunity.

Institutions see an exit.

Skip Day 1 completely.

It’s a pure trap.

You’re buying straight from insiders who waited years to cash out.

Then comes the real pain.

6 months of brutal sideways death.

This phase is designed to break the crowd.

And it works every time.

99% of retail will panic and sell at a loss.

That’s exactly when smart money accumulates.

In silence, when hype dies and nobody is talking about SpaceX.

You have two choices:

Buy the launch and become their exit liquidity.

Or wait and take their bags at a discount.

Patience pays.

FOMO pays them.

For the record, I called the $82K bull trap and Saylor's selling before they even happened.

I'll call the real entry. The crowd will be too scared to buy. That's when you move.

Turn on notifications. Most people will follow me too late.

[Tom Lafferty @Strategy_7702]

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[Kimia Nora @kimianora]

Gratitude → you see the good, your brain gets creative, you solve problems effectively.

Fear → you see problems everywhere, your brain is chaotic, your creativity is paralyzed.

Same business. Same person. Different fuel.

This is not woo-woo. It's neuroscience.

[Tom Lafferty @Strategy_7702]

This sentiment is becoming very wide spread.

[Tom Lafferty @Strategy_7702]

Careful

[Ali Charts @alicharts]

The SpaceX IPO has attracted over $70 BILLION in retail orders alone.

For perspective, SpaceX is raising $75 billion, meaning retail demand by itself is almost enough to absorb the entire offering.

History is worth keeping in mind.

• Saudi Aramco, the largest IPO before this, raised $29.4 billion and initially rallied before falling roughly 50% below its IPO price.
• Alibaba followed a similar path.
• SoftBank did too.

The pattern is familiar: strong debut, peak euphoria, then a deep correction.

Reports are even emerging of investors taking out bank loans to gain exposure to the SpaceX IPO. That level of enthusiasm is often a sign that expectations have become extremely elevated.

Could SpaceX rally after listing? Absolutely. In fact, I think that’s the most likely short-term outcome.

But if history repeats itself, the real opportunity may come after the excitement fades, not during it.

I’ll happily wait for the dip rather than chase the hype.

What about you?

[Tom Lafferty @Strategy_7702]

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[GP Q @argosaki]

THE STOCKMARKET & THE BLOCKCHAIN
🔺 THE STOCK MARKET ISN'T A MARKET.
IT'S A WEALTH EXTRACTION MACHINE DESIGNED TO MOVE MONEY UPWARD.
You're told it's "investing."
That you're "building wealth."
That the market "goes up over time."
That if you just hold long enough, you'll retire comfortably.
The data says otherwise.
90% of retail traders lose money. Not over a bad year.
Over their lifetime. 90%.
The house always wins — because it's not a market.
It's a casino where the house can see your cards, move the table, and change the rules mid-hand.
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High-frequency trading algorithms execute trades in nanoseconds — thousands of times faster than any human can react.
They see your order before it fills. They buy ahead of you.
Sell to you at a higher price. Pocket the difference.
Millions of times per day.
On every trade you make.
This is called "front-running."
It's illegal when a human does it. It's called "providing liquidity" when an algorithm does it.
Same action.
Different name.
Legal because the people who profit from it write the regulations.
Your brokerage — the "free" trading app — sells your order data to these algorithms before executing your trade.
You are the product.
Your trades are the signal.
The algorithm is the predator.
And your broker is feeding you to it — while telling you the commission is "zero."
The commission isn't zero.
It's hidden in the execution price. Every trade you make costs you 0.5-2% in invisible slippage — paid directly to the algorithm that saw you coming.
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Market crashes aren't accidents. They're harvests.
Every major crash followed the same pattern: years of artificial inflation — drawing retail money in — followed by a sudden, coordinated withdrawal by institutional players who knew the date in advance.
The insiders sell at the top.
The public holds through the crash — because they're told to "buy the dip," to "hold long-term," to "not panic sell."
By the time the public sells — at the bottom — the insiders buy back everything at 70-90% discount.
Wealth doesn't disappear in a crash.
It transfers.
From the many to the few.
From those who didn't know to those who did.
Every crash is a scheduled harvest of retail wealth — disguised as a "natural market cycle."
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The Federal Reserve controls the cycle.
Low interest rates inflate assets — drawing the public in.
Rate hikes collapse prices — triggering the harvest.
They announce the schedule publicly.
The insiders position months in advance.
The public reacts after the fact.
You're playing a game where your opponent controls time, sees the future, and writes the rules.
And you've been told this is "the path to financial freedom."
$47 trillion in US household wealth is in the stock market.
The largest concentration of middle-class savings in history — sitting in a system designed to periodically transfer it upward. The next harvest is always coming. The only question is whether you'll be holding when it arrives.
The QUANTUM FINANCIAL SYSTEM (QFS) runs on the blockchain, the ultimate immutable ledger, technology that eliminates this thieving architecture entirely.
No front-running.
No insider timing.
No artificial cycles.
No hidden extraction.
A system where value is stored — not hunted.
CODE: FRONT-RUN / 90-PERCENT-LOSE / HARVEST-CYCLE / QFS-REPLACE
They called it "investing."
It was feeding.
You were the food.
Every crash was dinner time.
♟
90% lose.
The house always wins.
And they told you it was your path to freedom.
The game is ending.

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[King Solomon (Ryan Solomon) @IOV_OWL]

It's not up for debate anymore.

Today's document find confirms Chainlink is the connector between 11,000 banks, SWIFT and every crypto network.

Directly from the ICMA document today:

"The SWIFT blockchain provides a single point of entry to multiple other distributed ledgers."

"Routing of conventional SWIFT messages is orchestrated by the Chainlink Runtime Environment."

"Communication between distributed ledgers is governed by Chainlink's CCIP."

11,000 banks. Every blockchain. No traditional infrastructure upgrade needed. Plug and play.

This is not speculation.

ethereum:0x514910771af9ca656af840dff83e8264ecf986ca $XRP $HBAR $SOL $CC $QNT $XDC

[Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav]

The US govt used to collect more FICA taxes than was paid out to Social Security and Medicare.

It was huge amounts of $$$ for decades. Hundreds of billions of dollars. Over time, it added up to near $3 trillion. What did Congress do with that $3 trillion? They spent it every year, and they ordered the US Treasury to stuff the Social Security and Medicare trust funds with US govt bonds.

The money was spent. It was not invested. The money is gone.

A few years ago, with aging population, the amount the US govt spends on Social Security and Medicare began to exceed the annual FICA taxes collected. So how does the govt makeup for that shortfall? The govt cashes in the US govt bonds to pay retirees.

In reality, those bonds just get converted from being owned by the trust fund to being owned by the public investors.

But each year the amount of US govt bonds owned by the trust fund declines. It has fallen from the peak of $3 trillion to about $2.5 trillion now. In 6 more years all of that $2.5 trillion will have been completely cashed in and added to the regular national debt.

What happens then? Under current federal law, Social Security will automatically cut benefits to match what is being collected by FICA taxes. It will be about a 22% cut in benefits for everyone.

In reality, Congress will likely pass emergency legislation to keep funding social security at current levels and will just add $500 billion (or more) to the national debt per year.

This will just accelerate the debt spiral that our government is in.

You probably don't own enough gold.

[Bull Theory @BullTheoryio]

US MARKET SELLOFF IS SPREADING TO ASIA.

$580 billion has been wiped out from Asian markets today.

Japan's Nikkei is down -1.89%, wiping out ¥26 trillion ($160 billion) from its market cap.

South Korea's KOSPI is down -4.52%, wiping out ₩276 trillion ($205 billion).

Taiwan's TAIEX is down -3.31%, wiping out NT$5.5 trillion ($170 billion).

Hong Kong's HSI is down -0.64%, wiping out HK$307 billion ($46 billion).

[Ash Crypto @AshCrypto]

If Bitcoin had a $1B AI deal today, it could’ve also easily pumped above $100K.

[Tom Lafferty @Strategy_7702]

Erosion

[SWIFT @Swift_Pilot]

@TheRabbitHole

[Tom Lafferty @Strategy_7702]

Just the beginning

[Bull Theory @BullTheoryio]

$2 TRILLION HAS BEEN WIPED OUT FROM US STOCK MARKET IN LAST 2 HOURS.

Two possible reasons for this selloff.

THE FIRST REASON IS SPACEX.

SpaceX lists on June 12 at a $1.77 trillion valuation, raising $75 billion, the largest IPO in US history.

SpaceX allocated 30% of shares to retail investors, three times the industry norm.

Even then, most retail investors still did not get full allocation. To buy more SpaceX at open on Thursday, they are selling their existing positions today to raise cash.

And SpaceX does not enter the Nasdaq 100 on day one. It enters 15 trading days after listing, putting forced buying around early July.

Nasdaq changed its rules specifically for this IPO, cutting the waiting period from three months to 15 days.

When that happens, every QQQ fund must automatically buy SpaceX, an estimated $22 to $27 billion in forced mechanical buying. To make room, every existing Nasdaq 100 stock gets trimmed.

MSCI has also adopted early inclusion rules, adding trillions more in tracked assets that will be forced to buy SpaceX after listing.

Both retail and institutions are raising cash at the same time, retail to participate in the listing, institutions to prepare for the forced index buying in July.

That combined selling is what you are seeing right now.

The second reason is insider positioning ahead of major news.

When institutions sell this aggressively across every asset class at the same time, it often signals they know something the market does not yet.

[Tom Lafferty @Strategy_7702]

You know, i fled CA years ago due to its political climate. Refreshing to see a candidate I could stand behind.