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You don’t integrate AI into a network unless it’s preparing for higher volume, higher value, and higher stakes. XRP is being built for what’s coming next.

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A food crisis in the making - Dutch gas reserves are at ~6% - The Netherlands is the 2nd largest food exporter - 80% of export vegetables come from greenhouses - Those greenhouses depend on gas This is how an energy crisis turns into a food crisis The Hormuz crisis is cascading through the entire global economy

NEW: On Thursday, investors pulled $171 million from U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs in the largest single-day outflow in over three weeks, signaling cooling institutional demand after strong inflows earlier in the month. 🏦

Bitcoin miners are selling their bitcoin to buy AI infrastructure Marathon, Riot, Hut 8, Core Scientific. The companies that literally produce bitcoin are deciding that AI compute is a better use of their capital than holding the bitcoin they mine Don't think everyone's really sitting with how strange this is. These are the people CLOSEST to bitcoin's monetary properties. They run the machines and understand the halving math. They know the supply schedule better than anyone and they're choosing to sell. The margins on AI hosting are so good right now that the opportunity cost of holding bitcoin is actually negative for them. Think about that for a sec: It's CHEAPER to sell BTC and build data centers than to hold BTC and mine more of it Wild times right now.

They just shut down the agency that protects you from banks. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the one government body designed to stop banks from ripping you off, has been effectively gutted. Staff placed on leave. Investigations frozen. Lawsuits dropped. The CFPB went dark in February. By March, student loan defaults had increased 23-fold. Not 23 percent. Twenty-three times. Mortgage delinquencies just hit their highest level in a decade. Credit card debt passed $1.2 trillion. The CFPB had rules ready to go that would have saved Americans $15 billion in overdraft fees, late charges, and junk fees. All cancelled. Overdraft fees alone generate $9 billion per year for banks. A $35 overdraft on a $20 purchase. Banks charge more for covering your coffee than a payday lender charges for a $500 loan. Capital One was facing a CFPB lawsuit over $2 billion in overdraft charges. That lawsuit is dead. JPMorgan was under investigation for mortgage servicing practices. That investigation is dead. This has happened before. The Office of Thrift Supervision was defunded in 2004. Four years later, the banks it was supposed to regulate caused the worst financial crisis since the Depression. Bank stocks (JPM, BAC, COF) are up 18% since the CFPB was gutted. The market is pricing in exactly what this means: higher fees, fewer refunds, and nobody to call when your bank takes money it shouldn't. Short term, bank stocks benefit from deregulation. But the consumer stress building underneath is the same pattern that preceded 2008. I want short-duration bonds (BIL) and cash ready for the dislocation that comes after. (I cover deregulation cycles and how to position around them in my free weekly session, comment "web" and i'll dm you the link)

This is how it feels exposing Brian Armstrong and him protecting his own bags while crypto users' portfolios are down 90%.

“Heavenly Father, grant me courage, wisdom, and a heart full of gratitude. Amen.”

Let's break this down for all players at the table. This isn't just a funding round. It’s a distribution play. By the way, if you haven't caught on yet, that's the play Ripple usually runs: they invest, fund, partner, seed, deploy in-house talent outward ...and it usually leads to DISTRIBUTION. It feeds back into their stack, it's (usually) never an isolated play. @Circle, @Ripple, and others are leaning into the same thing — control the movement of money across borders. Tazapay? They sit at the front. - onboarding merchants - handling local payment methods - managing compliance - routing payouts They’re where businesses actually touch the system. That’s really valuable. Circle (USDC)? Circle is looking to drive usage. Issuing a stablecoin is easy. Getting it used in real transactions is the hard part. And the competition is increasing rapidly. Tazapay gives Circle: - access to merchants - real cross-border volume - actual payment flow [This makes me drift and think about acquisitions that are going to take place over the next 2 years] But back to it... This is USDC moving from held → used Ripple Ripple sees everything. They're everywhere. They have investments in so many "players" in the industry. Ripple wants flow. So for them, backing Tazapay means: - more endpoints connected - more payment corridors - more volume through their rails This is expansion for them, it's just not loud. But it's GREAT. It'll force others to make moves to compete. Where are those competitors going to go? $RLUSD RLUSD is the cash layer. If/when Tazapay plugs into stablecoins (which they will), you’ve got the following happening: - front-end (Tazapay) - stablecoin (RLUSD / USDC) - rails (Ripple / XRPL) That’s a full stack. And that's not even including other parts of the overall ecosystem and stack, just the parts pertinent here. $XRP XRP is still so misunderstood. It's not front-facing, it's not the sexy app, it's the plumbing infrastructure that no ones sees, it sits in the middle, orchestrating the concert. As I said, XRP sits in the middle: -bridging liquidity -settling value -reduces friction As more flow comes through systems like this, the need for efficient liquidity increases. That’s the problem XRP solves. If you're a consumer, you're not dealing with this problem. But it's VERY REAL. Tazapay They don’t need to win the asset war. Tazapay wins with: - owning & maintaining the relationship - simplifying the experience - upgrading the experience - routing to what works best Tazapay sits above it all. THE BIG PICTURE Big Players/Bottom Layers: getting the top layers to use/partner with them to drive volume Top Layers: selecting great partners that will enhance client experience It's NOT about one coin vs. another. It's about filling the stack. - issuers - rails - distribution It's about making clients' lives better, whether that means: - Cheaper - Functionality - Faster/Easier When those connect… Regular flows begin. And once flow is there… everything else gets easier. MOMENTUM is the most powerful force that exists in business, sales, and networks. And @Ripple has it. By the time people catch wind, they'll be late. To some: it's glaringly obvious

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People make this complicated. It isn't. You want to lose fat on carnivore? Here is the tool. Fast longer. Don't eat until you are genuinely hungry. Not 'it's 12pm and I've been awake for four hours' hungry. Actually hungry. The kind of hungry where food sounds like a specific, compelling idea rather than a vague social obligation. When you eat, eat to satiety. Don't count. Don't restrict. Don't try to make this into something it isn't. Then wait until you're hungry again. That's it. The fat will move. The hunger on carnivore is honest: it arrives when it arrives and stops when you're full, without the noise of blood sugar spikes and the cravings that follow. Lean cuts? Calorie counting? Portion control? You can do all of that if you enjoy making things harder than they need to be. Or you can eat fatty meat until you're full and wait until you're hungry. The fat doesn't care about your methodology. It just needs a window. Give it a window.

Tokenization without liquidity is just digitized friction. XRP solves liquidity between assets and fiat, a core plumbing requirement for global finance.

A whale has opened a $26,928,000 $BTC short position today. Liquidation Price: $98,570

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Without the Clarity Act codified into law, crypto regulation stays in the domain of executive discretion. Aka future war on crypto with the next administration is possible.

🇺🇸 ETF FLOWS: BTC, ETH and SOL spot ETFs saw net outflows. BTC: -$225M ETH: -$48.5M SOL: -$7.8M XRP: $0