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FBI Houston's Investigative Genetic Genealogy (IGG) team worked with @houstonpolice to identify and arrest suspected serial rapist Philip Cerf. Our IGG team built family trees of persons identified as potential relatives of the unknown perpetrator at the time. "We hope his identification is a positive step in closure and healing for the victims after all these years," said SAC Jason Hudson. Cerf is suspected in at least four sexual assaults that took place between 1997 and 2016. x.com/houstonpolice/…

XRPL has already proven it can support tokenized assets at scale. Now it’s time to put these assets to use: global transfers, trading, collateralizing, and settling. The upcoming release of xrpld 3.3.0 includes five amendments that move XRPL significantly closer to that goal. Here's what each one enables: 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗣𝗧 Confidential MPT brings native privacy to Multi-Purpose Tokens (MPTs) on XRPL by combining zero-knowledge proofs with elliptic-curve encryption. Issuers and token holders can keep balances and transfer amounts private on a public ledger, while designated parties - such as auditors or regulators - can verify transaction details when required. For financial institutions, privacy is often a prerequisite for using public blockchain infrastructure. 𝗕𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵 Batch enables up to eight transactions across different accounts to execute atomically in a single ledger. Either every transaction succeeds, or none do. For the XRPL community, this unlocks more sophisticated workflows without introducing trust assumptions. For institutions, it enables capabilities like delivery-versus-payment (DvP) and atomic settlement, where both sides of a transaction execute together or not at all. 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗗𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 Permission Delegation allows institutions to delegate narrowly scoped transaction permissions without handing over full signing authority. It's the on-chain primitive for role-based access control. Treasury teams can retain custody of issuance keys while authorizing trading desks or operational teams to perform specific actions within defined limits. This separation of duties is a common requirement for institutional operations. 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗙𝗲𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗲𝘀 Sponsored Fees and Reserves allows a sponsor - such as a bank, issuer, or platform - to pay XRP transaction fees and account reserves on behalf of another account. Users continue to own their accounts and keys, while removing one of the biggest onboarding hurdles: requiring every participant to acquire and manage XRP before they can interact with the network. This improves the experience for both institutions and consumer-facing applications. 𝗗𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗠𝗣𝗧 Today, once a Multi-Purpose Token is issued, its configuration is effectively fixed. If an issuer needs to update transfer fees, metadata, or enable new capabilities later, the alternative is often issuing an entirely new token and migrating holders. Dynamic MPT allows issuers to define, at issuance, exactly which properties may be updated over time. This provides a practical way to adapt to changing business needs and regulatory requirements without requiring a full token migration. — The release is currently anticipated for next week. As always, these amendments will only activate following validator approval. If you run a validator, we encourage you to review the amendments as they become available. Specifications and documentation are available at opensource.ripple.com, and the Ripple team will be publishing technical deep dives, implementation guidance, and security reviews over the coming weeks.

@SMQKEDQG was right. The RCT was a distraction - Yen has stabilised, bonds a lowering, oil collapsed. Unless something drastic actually happens now that theory looks to have lost it's legs