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Not only is @FlareNetworks the ONLY end-to-end ecosystem for #XRP - but there is #FLR. The flywheel is usage-driven for 2 assets!! And it's kicking into high gear. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

I’m aware things are not moving as fast as we’d like, but I’m very excited about the upcoming updates for Flare Compute and TEEs. With TEE machines, builders will be able to run verifiable code inside hardware-isolated environments, helping ensure computation integrity. This helps close the trust gap for anything that happens offchain and it will unlock a new wave of applications across the crypto x AI design space. The system will preserve decentralized consensus, with data providers playing a key role, while also remaining flexible enough for extensions to run arbitrary computations inside TEEs.

Another huge milestone achieved: SparkDEX has processed $9+ billion in lifetime trading volume 📈 Leading the way as the #1 DEX on @FlareNetworks.

🚨Attention! Disruption Incoming!💯 🙃☀️🙃☀️🙃☀️ Pure🔥for #FLR IYKYK

@Anubis_Crypto_ @TheCryptoSquire @FlareNetworks Smart strategy!

YES bro, I’m all in on $1000 XRP… but here’s the actual playbook: First I load up hard anytime it’s under 80 cents - that’s my personal loading zone. Once I’m nicely stacked, everything gets deployed into FAssets on @FlareNetworks and quietly compounds as passive income 24/7. Me? Just chilling, checking the wallet once in a while and smiling at the autopilot gains. Dip → accumulate → let it work. Lazy millionaire mathematics. Who’s running the same strategy? 🚀

Guys, do you believe in $1,000 per $XRP? YES or NO?

If you’re building for XRP, you’ll inevitably end up exploring Flare. Our developer portal has everything you need to get started with a powerful stack you won’t find elsewhere: dev.flare.network

@HugoPhilion Hats off for the execution so far and great plans forward

I do love watching Flare FUD reach fever pitch over geopolitical instability. Others, bigger (cough cough Coinbase), have tried but Flare is the only project that has successfully turned XRP into collateral at meaningful scale. Flare is going to repeat that with BTC and then other coins whilst at the same time building private compute for RWAs and AI. And you doubt the future Anon?

☀️☀️☀️ #FlareNetwork $FLR

One of the most valuable life skills is the ability to endure pain when necessary, rather than assuming there’s always a hack.

When Folks Mobile enters the chat

Bitcoin + DeFi = BTCFi On the roadmap: @FlareNetworks! Nice blog @wsculley 😊 I love this space.

At some point, there will be one place where these two incredible assets can truly be put to work while users still retain control, and that place will be Flare.

I've never been obsessed with hiring the big name who just left @Google . What I care about is young, hungry energy. People with high agency who actually get things done. Some will stay a long time. Some will go build their own things. And when that happens, I'm proud of it. Because it means we built a place where ambitious people can grow. Folks family.

This is going to be massive and unique in terms of integration!

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@sentosumosaba @ChainLinkGod ❤️

I think we all know this about Ripple, the company and their shareholder priority. David has made it quite clear, numerous times. Ripple has also spent and continues to spend a tremendous amount of money hiring talent to develop use cases. The XRP Community, however, has @FlareNetworks, which has built the ONLY end-to-end XRP Ecosystem. Never - ever underestimate @HugoPhilion and team on how far they can go. x.com/sentosumosaba/…

By owning $XRP, you are funding a company that has openly stated it will prioritize its equity shareholders over you Ripple wrote the playbook on this. Let me walk you through how it works👇 When a company sells both tokens and equity to investors, it creates two competing stakeholder groups whose economic interests may not, and often do not, align For example, when there’s excess revenue or profits, where does that value ultimately go: to equity holders via buybacks/dividends, to token holders via buybacks/staking rewards, or some split between the two? There is a fixed pot of revenue to distribute, and equity investors often have superior, clearer economic rights to that revenue that can be legally enforced, while token investors often do not Look at Circle’s recent acquisition of Interop Labs (Axelar team), Coinbase’s acquisition of Tensor, PumpFun’s acquisition of Padre, Ripple vs XRP. etc These are all situations in which equity holders benefited at the expense of, or isolation from, token holders In Ripple’s case, they have spent the past decade+ systematically selling XRP to retail while spinning a story of inevitable institutional adoption In reality, Ripple uses the proceeds of XRP sales to acquire real companies and fund Ripple Labs stock buybacks, to the sole benefit of Ripple Labs shareholders No value is created for the XRP token, even Ripple admitted under oath in court filings that the bridge currency use case of XRP is demand neutral and does not impact price Ripple Labs socializes its costs to XRP holders to fund product launches and corporate acquisitions, then privatizes the value for its own shareholders XRPL is an obsolete ghost chain that's not even in the top 40 chains by usage. It has less than 1% marketshare in RWAs and less than 0.01% in stablecoins. There is no metric the chain leads in Ripple themselves issued 90% of RLUSD on Ethereum and have now expanded it to even more chains outside of XRPL including BNY Mellon's private EVM chain and L2s The list goes on By owning XRP, you do not have complete exposure to the success of the ecosystem Ripple is building, because you do not own the equity, you own some undefined percentage of the success This issue doesn’t exist for Chainlink, because there are no equity investors. There is only the $LINK token to accrue value from the network’s growth. Even CLL employees receive long-term incentives rewards in LINK, not equity Unfortunately, depending on how you want to put it, there is no mass social media misinformation campaign driving retail towards Chainlink like we see with XRP However, Chainlink‘s clear dominance in DeFi (70%+ marketshare w/ $60B in DeFi TVL secured) and its tangible verifiable institutional adoption by the largest institutions in the world (Swift, DTCC, Euroclear, SBI, UBS, JP Morgan, Fidelity, ANZ, etc) will inevitably become too impossible to ignore While the XRP army comes up with bizarre conspiracy theories about why institutions don’t talk about XRP, enterprises adopting Chainlink have no issue publicly talking about their use of Chainlink And before you say Chainlink and Ripple/XRP are not competitors bc they do different things, I would agree from tech perspective, Chainlink actually offers useful products for banks and isn’t a retail grift Chainlink is the only unified platform that provides the critical data, interoperability, compliance, privacy, and orchestration standards that financial institutions need for advanced tokenization use cases None of these institutional use cases Chainlink powers have ever required a “bridge currency”, that is a fantasy narrative dreamt up by retail This has been proven time and time again The reality is that $LINK is the best index bet on the institutional adoption of blockchain, while $XRP is a bank themed memecoin that Ripple sells to retail to fund corporate acquisitions and stock buybacks Documented.📝

🚨🚨🚨 Something interesting is happening around $XRP that many still fail to see 👇 Look at the data. Over 132M FXRP supply, and nearly 80% already locked in DeFi on $Flare Network. More than $149M in value secured, over 2.8M transactions, and user growth accelerating fast. These are not marketing slides. These are on-chain numbers anyone can verify. For years people said XRP lacked DeFi. That bottleneck limited what holders could actually do with their assets beyond transfers and storage. Flare changes that dynamic. Now XRP can be used for lending, liquidity, swaps, and yield generation directly through the FXRP system. The charts show activity rising, users increasing, and capital locking into the ecosystem. XRP holders are no longer just holding. They are starting to put their assets to work. This is just the start! Repost if you believe this is bullish for $XRP 👇

Some thoughts on Flare Smart Accounts, TEEs/Compute, and AI. At this point, it should be clear to anyone paying attention that Flare Smart Accounts are a powerful distribution moat. There is simply no better tool to give XRP holders simple access to XRPFi. Xaman was an early taste of that power. There will be more integrations, and the impact could be massive. When it comes to TEEs and Compute, the moat is different. It is less about distribution and more about execution: enabling high-value financial workflows that can only be carried out credibly on Flare. In practice, I expect this to be one key ingredient that can make fully institutional-grade XRPFi possible. And to be clear, private compute alone is not a moat. Other chains and infrastructure players can also talk about TEEs, offchain agents, or confidential workflows. The real moat comes from the combination: verifiable external data, interoperable execution, confidential decision logic, and the broader infrastructure stack built around FAssets. That is far harder to replicate than any single feature on its own. Then there is AI and agents. This is where things can get tricky if the focus is not clear. AI is obviously a disruptive force, and disruption is exactly what should be expected. We are already seeing it reshape developer experience and accelerate the rise of agents. The right response is not to resist it, but to use it as a force multiplier. AI can dramatically increase the volume and complexity of autonomous financial decisions. Flare provides the data, verification, execution, and confidentiality rails those decisions require. In that sense, AI increases the need for confidential yet accountable execution. That is exactly where verifiable private compute becomes essential. When all of this is viewed in the context of XRP, the direction becomes clear: Flare is becoming the infrastructure that enables XRP to evolve into programmable financial collateral for the broader financial system.