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XRP is getting harder to dismiss. We’re breaking down why the story around XRP is getting much bigger than payments alone.

The onchain economy is accelerating. Institutional settlement is moving toward 24/7. Cross-border costs are collapsing. Credit and lending infrastructure is being built directly into the XRP Ledger. Batch transactions are getting security audits. Developers are being pushed toward XLS-65 and XLS-66. And the Bitwise XRP ETF has now crossed $500 million in assets under management.

This is no longer one isolated XRP headline.

The infrastructure is stacking.

Payments.

Tokenization.

Trading.

Lending.

Credit.

Institutional access.

And the bigger that stack gets, the harder XRP becomes to ignore.

Chip and Jeff break down:

• Why Uphold says the new financial system is moving onchain

• Why XRP and XRPL keep showing up in the institutional conversation

• The new XRPL credit and lending rail

• XLS-65 and XLS-66

• The upcoming XRPL lending hackathon

• The latest Batch Transactions security audit

• The Bitwise XRP ETF crossing $500M AUM

• What all of this could mean for XRP adoption

• Plus tonight’s biggest geopolitical stories from the U.S., Canada, the U.K. and beyond

This one goes much deeper than price.

The question is no longer whether XRP has a use case.

The question is how much of the next financial system gets built around the rails XRP was designed to use.

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Ripple’s financial ecosystem is expanding fast — and the XRP Ledger is moving deeper into the infrastructure that could power the next generation of lending, liquidity, payments and institutional finance.

Tonight, Chip and Jeff break down Ripple’s Lending Protocol V1.1 security review, Single Asset Vaults on XRPL, and how Ripple Custody, RLUSD, Ripple Payments, Ripple Prime and the XRP Ledger are starting to connect into something much bigger.

We also get into what this means for XRP utility, institutional adoption, tokenized assets, settlement, liquidity and the future of finance.

Then we shift into GEOPOLITICS and AROUND THE WORLD — Trump, Fetterman, universal healthcare, immigration, Buc-ee’s, Canada vs. Trump, Lake America, Mark Carney, Doug Ford, France and more.

TOPICS COVERED

• Ripple Lending Protocol V1.1

• Sherlock AI security review

• XRPL Single Asset Vaults – XLS-65

• Ripple Custody

• RLUSD

• Ripple Payments

• Ripple Prime

• XRP Ledger tokenization

• Institutional lending and liquidity

• XRP utility and adoption

• Trump and John Fetterman

• Universal healthcare

• Immigration

• Buc-ee’s

• Canada vs. Trump

• Lake America

• Mark Carney and Doug Ford

• France politics

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Ripple is moving deeper into institutional finance — and the window for XRP may be getting smaller.

Ripple Prime now has more than $1 BILLION in regulatory net capital, 24/7 cross-margining, and a growing bridge between digital assets and traditional markets.

What happens when the infrastructure gets built before the market fully understands what’s happening?

We’re digging into:

⚡ Ripple Prime’s expansion across equities and digital assets

⚡ More than $1B in regulatory net capital

⚡ 24/7 institutional cross-margining

⚡ What prime brokerage looks like in the digital asset era

⚡ Ripple’s continued push into global payments

⚡ David Schwartz on how quickly transformative technology can accelerate

⚡ The latest geopolitical noise out of Washington

⚡ And what all of this could mean for XRP

The infrastructure is being built.

The institutions are moving.

And the window may be closing faster than people realize.

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The financial system is moving fast — and XRP keeps showing up exactly where the next phase of money is being built.

Mastercard is sponsoring the XRP Ledger Hackathon in New York just ahead of Ripple Swell. At the same time, 39 U.S. state banking associations are launching the BankChain Alliance to explore tokenized deposits, stablecoins, and smart payments.

Crypto-backed mortgages are moving into the mainstream. AI-driven finance is expanding on XRPL. Hedera is pushing blockchain directly into AI development tools. And Michael Saylor is still stacking Bitcoin at a scale almost nobody else can match.

These are not isolated headlines.

They point to the same thing:

The line between traditional finance and digital assets is disappearing.

And if XRP is already positioned inside the rails being built for payments, tokenization, stablecoins, and agentic finance...

there may be NO GOING BACK.

Tonight on On The Chain, Jeff and Chip break down:

• Mastercard’s move into the XRP Ledger ecosystem

• Why the XRPL Hackathon ahead of Ripple Swell matters

• 39 state banking associations building blockchain infrastructure

• Tokenized deposits, stablecoins, and smart payments

• Crypto-backed mortgages moving into traditional finance

• The rise of agentic finance on XRPL

• Hedera, AI tools, and the emerging machine economy

• Michael Saylor’s latest Bitcoin move

• What all of this could mean for XRP and the broader crypto market

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XRP just crossed a line — and there may be no going back.

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse joined the inaugural CFTC Innovation Advisory Committee alongside some of the biggest names in traditional finance — Nasdaq, CME Group, CBOE, NYSE, DTCC and more.

For years, crypto fought to get a seat at the table. Now Wall Street, Washington and crypto are sitting in the same room.

Meanwhile, millions of Americans own crypto, crypto-related economic activity continues to grow, and the line between traditional finance and digital assets is getting harder to see.

Tonight, we break down what this shift could mean for XRP, Ripple and the future of crypto.

PLUS — we get into the latest political and geopolitical stories, including the battle brewing in Seattle, Florida's dramatic political shift, U.S.–Canada trade negotiations and more.

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