Rob Ripley

Building a stablecoin on a small chain means you can't rely on anyone else for liquidity infrastructure. So I built a 3pool into Rumi Protocol. icUSD, ckUSDT, ckUSDC. Stablecoin swaps without depending on an external DEX to list you or fix their UI. You build what you need when nobody else will. $ICP

When UST collapsed, Cosmos didn't just lose a stablecoin. It lost trading pairs, lending markets, volume, and momentum. that hole never got filled. Stablecoins aren't optional infrastructure. They're gravity. Ecosystems without deep stablecoin liquidity just slowly die, no matter how good the tech is. wrote about how we got here.

Gold that just sits in a wallet is gold that isn't working. CDPs let you borrow against it without selling. Built exactly this on ICP. ckXAUT collateral went live last night. $XAUT $PAXG $ICP

Big backend update shipping for Rumi🔧 Multi-collateral framework: built. Tested. Ready. We're starting with $ICP, but the foundation is in place to expand collateral assets on demand. icUSD is just getting started.

@dgdg_app @EpicICP What layer of your stack do you use a private server for, and what advantage does it give over using ICP?

@EpicICP We just got a new server the other week so it doesn't overheat and stop working anymore. Payment clearing issues should be mostly sorted too.

Any new developments in the NFT space on $ICP??? 😵🤞 Give me something to read.

This does 3 things for us: - Ensures users can repay their vaults even when liquidity for icUSD is low. - Relieves a source of downward pressure on circulating supply. - Builds a cache of stablecoins to use for redemptions when icUSD’s dollar peg is threatened. $ICP

I started looking for my first crypto job in January of my senior year and didn't land something until September. It was brutal. I had to take a job working freight at the Home Depot to make ends meet, walking in there the day after I graduated wondering what I'm doing with my life, why I didn't just follow my mom's suggestion to become an x-ray tech because it pays well and there's always work. Sometimes I still think that might have been a better path, but it's not me. I'm a crypto bro. I applied for grunt level tradfi stuff too and had one interviewer suss out of me that I knew a lot about crypto and he said "if you know all about that stuff, why do you want to work here?" Obviously I didn't, I was just desperate. Anyway eventually one came through after hundreds, maybe even a thousand applications. Stay locked in, persistence is the thing you need the most and it will be tested for as long as it needs to be.

I think I’ve applied to about 20-30 crypto related roles over the last 2-3 months and not a single one even wants to interview me I graduated college and am decently knowledgeable about this space It’s all I’ve done since I graduated I think it might be time to give up

@IC_Millimaxion @dominic_w But does it matter to ICP holders if the licenses are free? Cycles gotta get burned no matter what.

It’s about time 😄 Rumi Protocol now has an official Discord. Come hang out, share thoughts, and be part of the conversation. Join here 👇 discord.gg/Ax7UaVw4c #ICP #Rumi #Protocol

@xHBKAYO @AirdropGlideApp Isn’t any DeFi hub just as suited for RWAs?

@AirdropGlideApp Lil bro comparing an ancient AMM with a team that's building a whole DeFi hub suited for real world assets.

What is wrong here? Osmosis Market Cap: $32m TVL: $23m 24h DEX Volume: $10m Neutron Market Cap: $10m TVL: $37m 24h DEX Volume: $500k Injective Market Cap: $360m TVL: $20m 24h DEX Volume: $400k Summary: Injective is incredibly overvalued. Osmosis is a powerhouse when it comes to DEX volume vs TVL. Neutron has high TVL, but it's pretty pointless given the activity on it (Hint: Depositors are farming the NTRN rewards).

@manyaaww @monad Can’t tell if serious or not… OP is showing circulating market cap and comparing it to FDV at ICO. Just under 11% circulating at launch. So, lower value from launch but not down 90%

The team of @monad: > spent 4 years building this chain > raised $500m from VCs > made the chain most hyped L1 ever > opened the token at $2.5b fdv Just for $MON to be down 90% from ath. The worst crypto project of all time.

@TownSquarexyz Profile NFT minting isn't working for me. Also, that page is showing a typo in your X handle

@PremilCalvinist @dominic_w Check us out: rumiprotocol.io

@dominic_w Need native stablecoins. Nonetheless, 2026 is looking good.

#Mission70 paper is on its way as promised :) Once that's shipped tomorrow, I'm going to announce an already imminent date for Internet Identity 2.0! Generally speaking, 2026 is going to involve a lot of big announcements, and a lot of impactful new things, so buckle up 💪

@dominic_w @PierreSamaties @PremilCalvinist We are live beta testing icUSD, an ICP backed stablecoin native to ICP! @rumilabsxyz

@PremilCalvinist I'd like to see a ICPUSD in 2026!

2026 is so gonna be our year

@brian_armstrong Never have I ever heard someone say “I had to deal with Coinbase customer support and they were good.” In fact, if I heard someone say that I would assume they were joking.

We have zero tolerance for bad behavior and will continue to work with law enforcement to bring bad actors to justice. Thanks to the Hyderabad Police in India, an ex-Coinbase customer service agent was just arrested. Another one down and more still to come.

Same, but upon honest reflection, special purpose chains are perhaps ultimately a novelty and aren’t solving any real problems. Arguably they are over complicating things. Another limitation was the inability for an existing chain to opt into IBC. By contrast, $ICP communicates directly with the Bitcoin blockchain, Ethereum, Solana, and more to come. This key difference is massive; the interoperability protocol can choose the chains rather than the chains needing to choose the interoperability protocol. Strangely, there has been almost no experimentation applying this superpower to DeFi, but my imagination runs wild. Especially when you add into that mix the fact that ICP smart contracts can also hold up to 500gb of data and perform backend computation. For example , picture an AI agent that exists solely as a smart contract, no off-chain components at all, conducting an arbitrage strategy among DEXs on Ethereum and Solana while collecting realized profits as native bitcoin that it could automatically distribute to its depositors. To get the perspective of some actual engineers, and not just an observer like myself, check out the journey of @OmnityNetwork from their origins as Octopus Network trying to create a comprehensive interoperability solution and how ICP played a crucial role in it. medium.com/omnity/the-evo…

One of my biggest disappointments in DeFi is that the Cosmos ecosystem never took off Cosmos had the best vision for how blockchains can exist and communicate with each other

@eyezenhour To catch you up a little: once the pandemic eased up and people started going outside again, they realized that NFT card games weren't actually all that fun, let alone valuable.

So Sui's #1 source of alpha replies to this and says "it's going well"... 🤔 I just feel sorry for the people who are missing a generational opportunity here There's a leading global IP with HUNDREDS of millions (if not 1B) fans and users Plus, 50-100M daily active users @SuiNetwork will be the rails they build on top of and you're fading it still⁉️ When they say "Gotta catch 'em all," it reminds me that's what I need to do with $SUI tokens 💧

ICP? Head guy at @nansen_ai : "never heard of it" Head of Research at @blockworksres/@blockworks : "dunno about it. Security doesn't matter anyway" upon being informed that apps on ICP are practically unhackable. @MessariCrypto: "give us money and we'll report on you" Meanwhile, everyone in crypto: "We need a blockchain solution to the centralized choke points in web3" 🤔 Crypto media is pathetic and doing their customers a massive disservice. It's mind boggling to me that these people get paid so much and have such highly perceived credibility, assumedly because they're as fascinated with blockchain tech as I am... Yet "number go down" means they will never look at it, never read the docs, tune out anyone who mentions it, and remain in complete ignorance of the cutting of crypto along with the people who think they're getting some alpha listening to these pigeon brained glorified degens. Once $ICP hits $50+ they'll post "in depth" looks at this project they've "been tracking for years" so their readers can FOMO in and be our exit liquidity for the impending bull run. In #8yeargang to ensure god mode is enabled for me in the 2030s. Take note, "analysts"

AWS outage. No problem. Cloudflare outage. No problem. All apps, websites, DeFi, enterprise services, AI models, etc, built/running on the Internet Computer — the only blockchain that hosts real apps fully onchain — continued running flawlessly You guys know this, rigghtt ;) ?