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The focus is no longer on $XRP as a speculative asset. The focus is on the XRP Ledger as infrastructure. Most people viewed XRP as a token that might appreciate if Ripple gained adoption. Japan’s recent actions point to a different model. SBI and its partners are building a full financial stack in which XRP is one component inside a much larger operating system. That system now includes RLUSD in Japan through the August 22, 2025 MoU between SBI Holdings, Ripple, and Standard Custody & Trust Company. It includes SBI VC Trade’s March 18, 2026 launch of Japan’s first licensed USDC lending service, offering an initial 10% annualized promotional rate and a regular rate around 5%. It includes the February 20, 2026 announcement of SBI’s 10 billion yen security token bond, issued on the BOOSTRY “ibet for Fin” platform and providing XRP benefits to investors. It includes JPYSC, the trust bank backed yen stablecoin developed by Startale Group and SBI, with issuance through Shinsei Trust & Banking. It also includes the April 17, 2026 SBI Startale initiative to build broader Web3 and stablecoin infrastructure. Taken together, these are the core components of a modern financial operating system. The XRPL can host stablecoins, tokenized securities, automated market makers, decentralized exchanges, escrow, identity tools, and realtime settlement. Interledger (ILP) extends that capability by connecting separate payment systems and ledgers. 👇🏾

‼️JUST IN: AUSTRALIA’S RBA DEPLOYS WHOLESALE CBDC DIRECTLY ONTO XRPL AND HEDERA NETWORKS IN PROJECT ACACIA‼️ The Reserve Bank of Australia just ran real money on both the XRPL and Hedera.💸 This is a massive development.🙇‍♂️ Project Acacia is a hands-on research program run by Australia’s central bank (the RBA) and industry partners. They issued small amounts of real pilot wholesale central bank digital currency (wCBDC) and used it to settle live trades of tokenised assets such as bonds and other financial instruments on multiple blockchain networks.💰 The goal was to test what actually works when digital central bank money sits alongside private money and tokenised assets in wholesale markets.🌐 In these tests, the XRP Ledger powered complete end-to-end permissioned bond lifecycles with J.P. Morgan custody, including redemption settled in RLUSD.✅ Hedera delivered both its public network and private HashSphere ledger for critical interchange services on tokenised private money.✅ Public ISO 20022-compliant blockchains just passed a central-bank test in Australia’s wholesale markets.🔥 XRP and HBAR are both entering the plumbing of Australia’s wholesale markets.☝️ Straight from the official May 2026 final report.😏💨 Fully documented below.📝👇

@RippleXrpie Doesn't sound like a professor. More like a smart Aleck child. There isn't a 'possibility ' Trump is playing the long game. He IS playing the long game. Sound like the prof is confused. Or likely trying to pander to both political extremes.

🇨🇳 Chinese Professor says that President Trump might be a genius. 🇺🇸 THE BIG PLAN

@CleansedTweets I'm not upset. I'm just disappointed.

How do people who lived through the 80s and 90s stomach today. I can’t fathom it. Surely you must be depressed?

@IOV_OWL Amen

Some days I’m burnt out on crypto. Adoption headlines, the bullish news, the bullshit. All of it. Just hurry up and do what you’re going to do so I can go off grid and disconnect from everything.

We always knew XRP wasn't a security - and now the @SECGov has made clear what it is: a digital commodity. Grateful to the Crypto Task Force for working to deliver the clarity that markets, investors, and innovators have long deserved.

Since Day 1 $QNT has looked more like an inside job from the UK Gilbert Veridan's background alone shows this But looking at the progress over the past few years & the picture becomes even more clear. Quant's been at every part of the UK's progression towards Enterprise DLT since Day 1. From alignment on ISO TC 307 standardization, To all that we're seeing now with GBTD, UK RLN, Sync Lab, Rosalind and more. These have all been critical pieces of UK's advancements. And it's not a coincidence that Quant's been involved every step of the way This was all intentionally planned very early on. What we're seeing now is just years of progress gradually beginning to come to light.

Friendly reminder that every ounce of yield you get offered for your XRP, you're paying for with some amount of risk. Rarely do people dive deep enough to understand where the yield is coming from at the core. It's part of DeFi, but don't sleep on good due diligence.

🚨BREAKING: Australia OFFICIALLY Approves Regulated Digital Dollar on XRP Ledger — MAJOR BANKS Can Now Use XRPL for Payments 🇦🇺🔥 Australia has OFFICIALLY APPROVED an Australian Financial Services Licence (AFSL) to $AUDC — turning its AUDD stablecoin into a fully regulated, institutional-grade payment instrument. 👀 That means major Australian BANKS AND BUSINESSES can now legally issue, hold, and use a digital Australian dollar for payments OPERATING on the XRP Ledger (XRPL). 😳 $XRP LEDGER OFFICIALLY ENTERS AUSTRALIA’S BANKING SYSTEM. 🇦🇺🚀

🚨BREAKING: Ripple Releases WHITEPAPER for BANKS to Buy & Sell CRYPTO 😳🔥 @Ripple has officially published a new whitepaper titled “The Blueprint for Institutional Digital Asset Trading.” 👀 This is a detailed framework for how BANKS, hedge funds, and large institutions can trade crypto more safely and efficiently. 🚀 Right now, large institutions have to open accounts on multiple exchanges, move money back and forth, manage separate credit lines, and take on counterparty risk. One failure — like FTX — can freeze EVERYTHING. 😳 👉🏼 @Ripple's solution? A Digital Prime Broker (DPB) framework. Under the DPB model, ONE main prime broker would aggregate liquidity, manage credit, and NET positions at the end of the day — reducing capital requirements and counterparty exposure. 🤯 @Ripple proposes leveraging the XRP Ledger (XRPL) for on-chain credit lines and faster settlement, allowing earlier netting, greater transparency, and reduced systemic risk. 🔥

@scottmelker It’s ok, you are allowed to mention $DGB being in there as well. 12 years old, 100% uptime. Truly decentralized. 40x faster than BTC. True grassroots community. Worlds 1st truly decentralized stablecoin DigiDollar coming soon. 👍

@MoonLamboio Been here with you for years. You're always a positive and humorous voice and our philosophies are identical. I appreciate you.

Say hi or hit like if you’re one of the few people that’s always just here in crypto land, rain or shine. I’m fond of my fellow permanent residents. You’re rare. I know it. $XRP

@HugoPhilion Welcome to Australia. Appreciate your hard work.

I’m heading to Australia 🇦🇺 on Monday night. I’ve never been before and am quite excited, especially as I’ll get to see Sydney Harbour. Have been playing this on repeat: open.spotify.com/track/53O5nAlq…

Great to be back on with @MariaBartiromo discussing Ripple’s banner year and accelerating momentum as we start 2026. Already, we are actively seeing Boards and CEOs pushing their CFOs and treasurers to understand how they can leverage and benefit from stablecoins. For corporates, there's no question that stablecoins are the gateway into crypto. Institutional adoption 🤝 real-world utility. foxbusiness.com/video/63895717…

@KuwlShow Great summary. The question that will influence banking acceptance: how much do the banks make in the confusion/friction VS how much would they make utilising the freed capital. Also a factor: corrupting and graft are more easily hidden in said confusion/friction..

If global banks moved from managing 50 fiat liquidity corridors to a single interoperable, ISO20022 aligned bridge asset on DLT rails, what efficiency gains emerge in time, cost, and risk? Today’s cross-border banking model is built on: •Correspondent banking •Nostro/Vostro accounts •Pre-funded liquidity •Batch settlement •Multiple intermediaries A global bank typically must: 1. Hold liquidity in many foreign currencies 2. Maintain accounts in multiple jurisdictions 3. Accept settlement delays (T+1 to T+5) 4. Bear FX volatility risk during settlement windows 5. Pay multiple intermediary fees Now imagine a system where: 1. Banks hold primarily domestic liquidity 2. Cross-border transfers convert from bridge asset to destination currency 3. Settlement occurs atomically in seconds This is the model built around XRP on the XRP Ledger. The key shift is: Liquidity moves from being pre-positioned to being on-demand. Instead of maintaining 40–50 bilateral currency relationships, banks only need: • Local fiat • Access to liquidity pools • A bridge asset with sufficient depth How Common Sense Wins Bridge liquidity > pre-funding: 1. 20–60% reduction in capital tied up in payment rails is plausible 2. Return on capital improves materially Reduced need for: 3. Reconciliation teams 4. Messaging layers 5. Manual exception handling 6. 30–70% reduction in operational processing cost Real-time conversion reduces: Hedging costs 7. Spread padding for uncertainty 8. Atomic settlement eliminates the risk exposure of one party paying before the other party settles. 9. Fewer intermediaries = fewer failure points. 10. No need for guessing future liquidity needs in advance. Without XRP as a Bridge Asset 50 Currencies required: N(N-1)/2 = 1,225 currency pairs With One XRP Bridge Asset 50 Currencies require: 2N = 100 connections That’s a ~92% reduction in liquidity relationships. Without a bridge: 50 currencies require 1,225 bilateral corridors. With a bridge: 100 total connections. This does three things: 1 Reduces liquidity fragmentation 2. Deepens liquidity pools 3. Improves price discovery Liquidity concentration lowers volatility over time - a self-reinforcing loop. This is the core engineering argument for XRP Adoption. The Big KUWL Picture • Money is information about value. • The faster and more truthfully information moves, the less opportunity exists for hidden extraction. • Efficiency compresses arbitrage that depends on delay or opacity. And when settlement approaches real time, profit shifts from friction to service. Critical to Know: The largest gain for Tier 1 Banks is not transaction fees - it’s balance sheet compression. Banks make money with capital. Freeing capital is powerful. When a bridge asset becomes embedded in payment flow: Banks will not ask: “Is XRP cheap?” They will ask: “Can we operate without it?” This will be the fundamental shift. This is why historical crypto models become unreliable once institutional usage dominates. XRP’s biggest constraint is not technology. It is: • national monetary sovereignty • regulatory comfort • neutrality perception XRP must be seen as: • politically neutral • highly liquid • operationally reliable • legally compliant This is why interoperability matters more than dominance. When settlement time approaches zero: • delay-based extraction disappears • opacity loses value • trust shifts from institutions to systems In Simple Terms: The faster truth settles, the harder it becomes to profit from confusion. Honest weights and measures, anyone? Retail demand is emotional and cyclical. Infrastructure demand is functional. Once banks must access the bridge to operate competitively, demand becomes: • persistent (driven by payment volumes) • inventory-based (you hold what you need to guarantee execution) • liquidity-sensitive (depth matters more than hype) @Ripple @USTreasury @America250

@rektdiomedes Reminds me or Rudyard Kiplings: If.

Have mentioned it before, but my favorite quote in Lord Of The Rings is this one, about Aragorn in his youth: "And Aragorn travelled far and wide, even to lands like Rhun and Harad where the stars are strange, and learned the hearts of men both good and evil." Then it continues, talking about him in the present: "Strong and stern... bold, determined, able to take his own counsel and dare great risks at need." I love it because I feel like that is exactly how life works... You need to go out and have adventures when you're young and IRL-maxx so you can gain XP and boost your WIS (Wisdom) score... And then after that you need to really be able to rely on your own decision-making in life... Especially nowadays, if you do the 'normal' societally-prescribed stuff you are going to end up miserable... And if you try to get your family and friends to support all your decisions in life and have 100% consensus on everything then you are rarely going to achieve your dreams... You gotta just ruminate on stuff yourself and then trust your gut and go for it...

Delighted to share that @quantnetwork has been selected for the @bankofengland’s Synchronisation Lab as part of the RTGS Future Roadmap. Our use case: atomic, multi-bank treasury operations powered by Quant Flow and PayScript®. All payment legs settle together or not at all, eliminating partial settlement risk across multiple banks in a single action. This is programmable finance that works within existing market structures, not around them. quant.network/press-releases… #RTGS #TreasuryManagement #PaymentsInnovation #FinancialInfrastructure #SynchronisationLab #ProgrammableMoney

I predict that as Quant becomes more solidified as the foundation of the blockchain economy the more attractive $QNT will be become as an investment The more things that go into production with financial institutions, the more confident investors become in $QNT I also say right now we are at that turning point where all the accumulative speculation from the last 5 years is starting to come to light…. But once you’ve done your research you would also understand that it’s inevitable for Quant to become the core of the new financial system through Universal Interoperability also what I like to call the OS (operating system) of blockchain.

@Dagnum_PI Watching the Link army coming out of the woodwork to FUD is so funny. Crypto X has been so quiet but they still drag their sorry arses out to whinge. In a way, I applaud their commitment to their stupidity.

This space is wild. Quant is trending because engagement farmers didn’t mention it was referenced in a Bank of England report. I'm with Charles Hoskinson: crypto is too financial. Bring on other non-financial use cases. They will unlock more value than the financial ones we've talked about for a decade.

@SebasP49474734 Geez is that bullshit starting again. Fucking retards.

🤪🤪🤪🤪 the $LINK army has found another straw…. HOLY FVCKING SHIT….