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Trump pushing the Fed to reassess its treatment of crypto firms could end up being a massive shift for the industry. For years, one of the biggest barriers to adoption wasn’t demand. It was banking access and regulatory resistance behind the scenes. That’s why this matters for XRP and Ripple. The market still treats XRP like a speculative token while Ripple keeps building around liquidity, settlement and financial infrastructure. Banking normalization plus regulatory clarity changes the entire equation.

@Xfinancebull Love it or hate it, seeing custody, stablecoins, RWAs and network activity all growing together is hard to ignore. That's not usually what stagnation looks like.

🚨🚨🚨While everyone panics about why $XRP price is not moving, the Q1 2026 data tells a completely different story underneath. Every single metric grew. Quarter over quarter. During a drawdown. 👉RLUSD market cap on XRPL surged 45% to $340 million in a single quarter. That's institutional stablecoin demand accelerating while the price chart looked dead. 👉RWA market cap on XRPL exploded 124% to $2.25 billion. More than doubled in three months. XRPL is now the fourth largest network globally for tokenized real-world assets. Behind only Ethereum, Stellar, and ZKsync. 👉 XRP Spot ETF holdings climbed 2% to 775.4 million XRP locked in custody. That's 1.3% of circulating supply sitting inside regulated products that don't sell on red candles. 👉Average daily transactions jumped 35% to 2.48 million. The network is processing more activity than ever. 👉Identity features advancing. Compliance tools deploying. Privacy infrastructure building. Every single fundamental metric moved in one direction. Up. Significantly. In 90 days. The price compressed while the ecosystem expanded at the fastest pace in XRPL history. That compression creates stored energy. When the CLARITY Act passes and institutional deployment accelerates, the fundamentals and price align. The data doesn't panic. The data grows. And eventually the price catches up to what the data already proved. Still bearish after seeing this data?

@CryptoTice_ The market has a funny way of testing conviction when the data starts looking obvious.

BITCOIN DEMAND JUST CRASHED TO ITS MOST BEARISH LEVEL OF 2026. Buyers have left the building. Not slowed down. Not paused. Left. No spot demand. No institutional conviction. No retail participation. Just a market running on fumes and leverage. This is not the setup for a sustainable rally. This is the setup for one final flush. That creates the most important buying opportunity of the entire cycle. The most bearish demand reading of the year... Has historically marked the exact zone where patient money is made. Pain first. Then everything changes.

@cryptorover Everyone is debating the number. I'm wondering who gets to direct the money. That's usually where the real leverage sits.

💥BREAKING: The New York Times says Trump is preparing to give Iran a $300 BILLION "investment fund" as part of whatever deal they cut to end the war. This is absolutely INSANE!

@ZssBecker The market has a funny habit of rewarding things people spent months mocking.

The biggest returns come asymmetrical bets. Translation : It come from assets 95% of people hate. The disagreement is WHERE the gains come from. There is no asset on earth that fit's this bill more than crypto right now. If it runs, it will give the best returns on earth.

@cryptorover Genuine question: Does this signal strength... or does it signal that everyone is already back in the trade?

THIS IS INSANE 🚀 $13,000,000,000,000 has been added to US stocks in just 9 weeks. The S&P 500 has now posted 9 consecutive weekly gains, its longest winning streak since December 2023.

@TedPillows Amazing how often liquidity leaves clues before price reacts.

Stablecoin dominance is back above its Bull market support band. A weekly close above 10.6% could accelerate the downtrend in $BTC and alts.

@BullTheoryio Every dip seems to be creating new buyers instead of scaring them away. That's not something you see in a market running out of participation.

🚨Retail investors are trading stocks at the fastest pace ever recorded. Even 12% above the January 2021 meme stock peak. Citadel Securities, which processes roughly 40% of all US retail order flow, confirms May 2026 is on pace to be the most active month for retail cash equity volume in history. Retail options volume is running 60% above the historical monthly average. Semiconductors have become the most popular target. Retail options volume in semiconductor stocks is now running at 2.8 times the post-2020 monthly average, up a third from just one month ago. Retail traders have been net buyers of stocks in 16 of the past 18 weeks. The last time retail activity came anywhere close to this was January 2021. That month ended with GameStop, a market wide correction, and billions in losses for retail investors who bought at the peak.

@ChadSteingraber I don't think most people appreciate how big these numbers actually are. A few billion sounds huge until you start looking at what moves through the financial system every few seconds.

Globally, over 25,000 commercial banks, 60,000 quasi-banking institutions (such as credit unions and savings cooperatives), and thousands of specialized money transmitters are actively involved in moving money every single day. We generally say XRP has a settlement time of up to 5 seconds, but during that 5 second window - that entire value block of XRP is locked up. We’re also not talking about a few or some but upwards of 10’s of thousands financial entities sending Billions every 5 seconds. The issue is now, what is the sourcing method of XRP… how much will be available to handle this traffic?

@KobeissiLetter Amazing how quickly the conversation around oil changed. A year ago everyone was focused on supply. Now all eyes are on China.

China's shrinking appetite for oil is balancing global crude markets: China's crude oil imports are tracking at ~6.6 million barrels per day so far in May, the lowest since 2016/ This comes as oil inbound shipments fell -20% MoM in April, to 9.37 million barrels per day, the lowest since July 2022. This compares to 11.6 million barrels per day in 2025, when the country was aggressively stockpiling to bolster energy security. China’s crude oil imports are now expected to average 10.9 million barrels per day in 2026, the lowest average for any year since 2022. However, China's oil inventories have declined by only ~20 million barrels over the last several weeks, to ~1.23 billion barrels, still +15% above early 2025 levels. Over the prior 2 years, the country’s stockpiling absorbed much of the world's surplus oil and helped support global prices, but this dynamic has now reversed and is capping any further upside. China is effectively putting a ceiling on oil price gains despite severe supply shortages.

@ChartNerdTA If this happens, the first few adopters matter more than the percentage. Corporate treasuries tend to pay attention when peers start saving time and money

Probably nothing.. 30% of Ripple Treasury's $13 TRILLION in payments volume is likely to come on-chain in the next 5 years $XRP ⏰️

@ChairmanSelig @CFTC The market spent years asking for regulatory clarity. This is what it looks like when it starts showing up in products.

In my first public remarks as @CFTC Chairman, I made clear that the agency would use the tools at its disposal to onshore crypto asset perpetuals. Today, the @CFTC delivered on that commitment. This morning, the @CFTC took historic action to permit the listing of a true bitcoin perpetual contract by a CFTC-registered exchange, charting a path for one of the most liquid segments of the crypto asset markets to exist within the US regulatory framework.

@ChadSteingraber Curious how much of these inflows are spot buyers versus leverage chasing momentum. Very different signals.

Current Volume and Net Flows for XRP

@cryptogoos The lower AI prices go, the more interesting the business model becomes. Someone still has to make money.

🚨 CHINA'S AI PRICE WAR IS BECOMING A NIGHTMARE FOR US AI COMPANIES. DeepSeek just made its 75% API price cut permanent. Days later, Xiaomi slashed its API costs by up to 99% to match it. The biggest threat to OpenAI and Anthropic was never another frontier model. It's developers realizing they can get competitive performance for a fraction of the cost. Now Chinese labs are turning AI into a commodity. Pricing it like electricity. Giving it away to WIN the market. The West is still selling AI like a premium product. China is selling it like electricity...

@PeterBerezinBCA Everyone agrees expectations are high. The debate is whether AI demand peaks before the infrastructure buildout does. That's where the story gets interesting.

The AI bubble is primarily an earnings bubble rather than a valuation bubble. My report this week discusses the metrics investors should monitor to know when this bubble is about to burst. Clients can read it here: bcaresearch.com/reports/earnin…

@CryptooIndia The interesting part here is how the conversation keeps moving upstream. Digital asset regulation is increasingly being discussed as infrastructure policy with long-term economic implications. That's a meaningful shift.

JUST IN: 🇺🇸🇨🇳 Senator Cynthia Lummis says the US must lead on digital asset regulation before China does. "The dollar-based financial system has anchored global stability for a century. The Clarity Act ensures America builds the next one."

@AshCrypto Interesting level to lose. Let's see if money actually stays in alts this time.

Bitcoin dominance has just dropped below 60% for the first time since April 20th. This shows that alts are holding stronger than BTC as of now.

@CryptoNobler The jump from "considering" to "officially doing" is carrying a lot of weight here. That's a pretty important distinction.

🚨 BREAKING 🇯🇵 JAPAN WILL OFFICIALLY STOP ITS QT PROGRAM TO STABILIZE MARKETS! THEY ARE FORCED TO START QE (MONEY PRINTING) TO PREVENT THE BOND MARKET COLLAPSE. LAST TIME THEY STARTED QE, THE STOCK MARKET DUMPED 12.5% IN 24 HOURS. THIS IS NOT LOOKING GOOD FOR MARKETS...

@Coinvo The most important part of this story is whether the $300B figure is real. Everything else comes after that.

CRAZY: 🇺🇸 U.S. analysts believe President Trump is 'an idiot' for agreeing to give Iran $300 billion for "reparations." "So he spends $70 billion of taxpayers money to bomb Iran, then spend an extra $300 billion repairing the damage, and then increase taxes to help cover the debt."

@BullTheoryio Japan's bond market matters because it has been a source of liquidity for far longer than most people realize. Capital adapted to years of near-zero rates. If that regime is changing, the adjustment won't be isolated to Japan.

🚨 SOMETHING VERY ALARMING IS HAPPENING IN THE JAPAN BOND MARKET RIGHT NOW. And it could become a problem for every stock market in the world. The Bank of Japan spent the last two years trying to unwind one of the biggest money printing programs in history through Quantitative Tightening. The goal was simple: reduce its massive bond holdings, normalize policy, and slowly return the bond market to private investors after years of central bank intervention. Now that plan may be falling apart. According to Reuters, BOJ officials are increasingly considering a pause to QT in 2027 as bond market volatility continues to rise. This would be a major reversal for a central bank that has spent years trying to exit emergency-era policies. The reason is the bond market itself. Japan's 10-year government bond yield recently hit 2.8%, the highest level in nearly 30 years. Long-dated bond yields have reached record highs, and investors are becoming increasingly concerned about Japan's debt burden and rising inflation. This is becoming a serious problem because Japan has more than $8 trillion of government debt. The finance ministry built its entire 122.3 trillion yen budget assuming yields would not exceed 3%. Japan's debt servicing costs have already risen 10.8% this year to 31.3 trillion yen. Every move above 3% automatically wipes out spending room the government does not have. At the same time, inflation is rising again. For years Japan wanted inflation because the country was stuck in a low growth, low wage environment. Now inflation is being driven by higher energy costs and imported inflation from the Iran conflict, which is a very different type of inflation and much harder to control. Japan has recorded above-target inflation for 45 consecutive months. This leaves the BOJ trapped. If it continues QT, bond yields could move even higher and put more pressure on government finances. If it pauses QT, it risks showing that the bond market still depends on central bank support after more than a decade of intervention. And this is where global markets come in. Japan is the third largest economy in the world and the single largest foreign holder of US Treasuries. The BOJ currently owns 49% of all outstanding Japanese government bonds, 503 trillion yen out of a total 1,025.8 trillion yen market. When Japanese bond yields rise, Japanese institutional investors stop buying US Treasuries and bring money home instead. That reduces demand for US debt, pushes US yields higher, and tightens financial conditions for every market on earth that prices risk against the US 10-year rate. But the bigger risk is the carry trade. For years global investors borrowed money in Japan at near zero interest rates and invested those funds into higher yielding assets around the world US stocks, emerging market bonds, tech stocks, crypto. This trade worked as long as Japanese rates stayed low. As the BOJ raises rates and Japanese yields rise, the cost of borrowing in yen increases. That forces carry trade investors to close their positions, selling the assets they bought and converting back to yen to repay their loans. In August 2024 the BOJ raised rates by just 0.15%. What followed was the single largest single day crash in the history of the Japanese stock market and a violent selloff across global equities, crypto, and emerging markets within 48 hours. The BOJ is now expected to raise rates to 1% at its June 15-16 meeting. That is a significantly larger move than August 2024. The carry trade built on decades of near zero Japanese rates is estimated at over $4 trillion globally. That's why this should scare every investor in the world.

@awealthofcs The hardest thing in markets is accepting that leadership changes. A decade of outperformance can be erased surprisingly fast once capital starts looking elsewhere

South Korea has now outperformed the S&P 500 over the past 10 years All of the outperformance has come in the past year Nuts