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Jon Patrick retweeted
that logo on the left looks very familiar
We announced an agreement to acquire a nationwide low-band spectrum license portfolio that will pave the way for @Starlink to become a major mobile carrier in the US.
With this new spectrum and our Gen2 constellation, Starlink Mobile can ensure Americans have access to high-speed mobile broadband no matter where they are → spacex.com/updates#starlink-…
Jon Patrick retweeted
it's the most misunderstood concept in crypto right now.
hardly anyone can explain it.
yet everyone's asking it.
"why are prices down despite so much bullish news?"
the truth is that crypto isn't trading on what the tech does today. it's trading on what the market hopes it might do tomorrow.
and the wild price swings we see today are merely the market trying to price the potential of the rails being built (ie speculation).
the real wealth will be made once real adoption arrives, and crypto becomes boring everyday tech.
so what does this mean?
to understand this concept, we need to travel back in time to 1999, the dot com boom.
back when adding ".com" to a business plan meant an instant billion dollar valuation. back when stocks traded on pure speculation about what the internet would become.
valuations had very little to do with real-world usage.
and when reality hit, the bubble burst. amazon crashed over 90%. nvidia plummeted 85%.
the headlines claimed the internet failed. but it didn't.
far from it - everything today runs on the internet.
so what happened?
the speculation phase was simply washed out to make room for the utility phase. amazon eventually reached a trillion-dollar valuation because it built useful, everyday tech on top of the newly laid digital rails (the exact kind of utility @easya_app is helping build today).
the real winners, like amazon, survived because they crossed the chasm from "speculative hype" to "everyday utility." (remember the s-curve from my previous post?).
crypto is in its 1999 era.
the market is pricing the idea of a decentralized network, not its daily reality.
and prices will continue to swing wildly on hype and speculation until blockchain tech reaches the point of mass adoption (ie people use it everyday, without even realising it).
but when this invisible tech finally does underpin the multi-trillion dollar global financial system?
you better lock in.
because by then you'll be kicking yourself for not having seen it coming.
Jon Patrick retweeted
WATCH: A special tribute video honoring President Donald J. Trump’s uncle, Dr. John Trump, plays at the New Golden Age Summit.
Dr. John Trump was awarded the National Medal of Science by President Ronald Reagan in 1983. 🇺🇸
Jon Patrick retweeted
🚨BREAKING: The IMF has just released Chapter 3 of its October 2026 Global Financial Stability Report, highlighting $XLM and the $XRP Ledger!!!!!!
The named @StellarOrg and the $XRP Ledger among the blockchain networks hosting tokenised financial assets!
The IMF is also saying tokenisation could transform global finance through faster settlement, 24/7 trading and greater efficiency.
The future of finance is moving onchain, and XLM and XRP are already part of the picture!
Jon Patrick retweeted
One of the most important speeches in recent memory.
We believe that the West can awaken from its long slumber – and rekindle the fire that was first lit in ancient Greece millennia ago.
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Over 8 million x402 transactions on the XRP Ledger in the last 30 days.
This makes XRPL one of the leading networks in agentic economy activity, with an increasingly expanding ecosystem of agents and merchants.
XRP Ledger is one of the leading networks for x402 payments, with 8M+ transactions settled over 30 days.
Encouraging to see this level of activity as we keep building trust and welcoming more merchants into XRPL’s agentic economy.
Explore the ecosystem: xrpl-ai.org
This opens up XRP services to a lot of institutions and their customers, like PayPal, Venmo, Interactive Brokers, Charles Schwab, and more.
Paxos Crypto Brokerage now supports $XRP.
In circulation since 2012, XRP is now held across 8.1M+ wallets, and carries a market cap of nearly $95B.
Partners can now offer XRP through the same regulated platform trusted by some of the biggest names in finance.
Ripple Prime will now provide multi-asset prime brokerage, clearing and financing services to Brevan Howard, expanding our relationship with one of the world's leading alternative investment managers.
Read the full announcement to see how Ripple Prime is bringing traditional and digital markets together for institutional investors: on.ripple.com/4yCyZXE
Jon Patrick retweeted
.@POTUS: Right here in Nebraska, NioCorp is investing $2B to build one of the most advanced critical mineral mines anywhere the world, creating hundreds of jobs. One of the world’s largest medical device manufacturers, Becton Dickinson, also just announced a $3B investment to bring medical manufacturing back to the United States — and the biggest expansion is coming right here to Nebraska.
Jon Patrick retweeted
🤔China did not suddenly shut hundreds of banks today.
The underlying reporting says 670 banking entities disappeared during 2025, mostly through closures, mergers, or absorption of small rural lenders. That reduced the total number of banks by about 23% over the prior four years, leaving roughly 3,139 institutions. The purpose was to consolidate weak rural/regional banks, improve oversight, and reduce the risk of liquidity runs or failures.
The reasons fit what we have been tracking: weak credit demand, property-sector stress, low profitability, rising bad loans, weak capitalization, and governance problems among smaller lenders. Authorities have also been recapitalizing larger state banks and insurers at the same time.
So under our lens, the interesting part is not “China just closed 670 banks.”
It is:
China has already spent years consolidating the weakest part of its banking system before the current global financial-pressure window.
Identify weak institutions
→ merge or close them
→ move deposits/assets into stronger entities
→ recapitalize systemically important banks
→ simplify supervision
→ reduce the number of places where a liquidity event can begin
That is classic de-risking / consolidation architecture.
And it’s happening while China is simultaneously stimulating the economy through cheaper policy-bank funding, targeted relending, mortgage subsidies, and support for technology and infrastructure.
So China is doing both sides at once:
clean up weak banks
while
feeding liquidity through preferred channels.
That fits the broader “remove fragile nodes while strengthening selected rails” pattern much better than the dramatic headline suggests. @CHahnT
Jon Patrick retweeted
🚨 THIS ISN’T TREASURY WALKING AWAY FROM CRYPTO. IT LOOKS MORE LIKE TREASURY CHANGING HOW IT POLICES THE RAILS.
FinCEN just withdrew two proposed digital-asset rules:
The 2020 unhosted-wallet proposal record keeping, verification and reporting requirements on certain transactions involving self-hosted wallets.
The 2023 crypto-mixing proposal a special measure aimed broadly at convertible virtual currency mixing.
FinCEN’s own words: the rules were withdrawn after reviewing public comments and as part of an effort to make digital-asset regulation more “fit-for-purpose.”
Now zoom out.
For years the architecture looked like:
WATCH EVERYTHING.
REPORT EVERYTHING.
BUILD THE DATABASE.
MAP THE NETWORK.
But once the map exists, do you still need the same giant net?
Maybe the next phase looks different:
REGULATE THE LEGITIMATE RAILS.
IDENTIFY THE ACTUAL BAD ACTORS.
TRACE THE MONEY.
ISOLATE THE NETWORK.
SANCTION OR SEIZE THE SPECIFIC CHANNELS.
LEAVE NORMAL COMMERCE MOVING.
That is the distinction.
Broad surveillance rules coming off the board does NOT automatically mean enforcement is disappearing.
It could mean the enforcement architecture has matured enough to become more surgical.
And look where this lands in our timeline:
Stablecoin rails being formalized.
Treasury demand being built into reserve structures.
Digital-asset enforcement becoming increasingly network-specific.
Old blanket crypto proposals being withdrawn.
That is why I keep saying:
DON’T JUST WATCH THE REGULATION. WATCH THE ARCHITECTURE.
The old model was:
control the entire environment to find the bad network.
The possible new model is:
the network is already mapped
now remove the network without choking the entire environment.
That is the 40,000-foot view.
CLEAN THE NETWORK.
KEEP THE RAILS.
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🚨 $XRP gets another major regulatory signal.
The CFTC’s Joint Crypto Asset Taxonomy explicitly lists XRP as a digital commodity, alongside BTC, ETH, SOL and XLM.
XRP is getting clearer regulatory recognition in the U.S. 👀
The CFTC is talking tokenization, stablecoins, digital assets and payments in remarks at the Fordham Law Blockchain Regulatory Symposium.
But here’s the part that stands out:
The CFTC’s Joint Crypto Asset Taxonomy lists $XRP alongside BTC, ETH, SOL, XLM and XTZ as examples of “digital commodities.”