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XRP spot ETFs now hold 1.13 billion XRP and $1.46 billion in assets, after another 6.3 million XRP of inflows this week and 645.3 million XRP walking off exchanges. Every part of the bullish mechanism fired at once, and XRP sat at $1.43.

Jeff walks the Week 38 supply report line by line, and Chip puts beside it the number nobody else quotes: the ETFs and index funds hold 1.129% of total supply, while exchange wallets hold roughly 21%. The ETF bid is real. It is not yet large enough to see.

Also in this episode: the Fed's unanimous 12-0 hike to 3.75%-4.00% and why XRP didn't blink; where all 100 billion XRP actually lives; Ripple Treasury and the trapped-cash problem; XRP and RLUSD landing in Stripe and Tempo's AI payments kit; Stuart Alderoty on why politics beat policy on CLARITY; wallet security and the dead-phone cold storage protocol; and the Greenland agreement that Trump calls permanent American control while Denmark's own statement calls sovereignty preserved.

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Democrats blocked the CLARITY Act, leaving the United States without the digital asset framework the crypto industry spent years fighting to secure. Now, some of the senators responsible cannot clearly explain why they voted against it.

But XRP isn't waiting for Washington.

While Congress fails to deliver clarity, XRP and RLUSD are moving deeper into the infrastructure being built for AI-powered commerce, open wallets and machine payments. We break down who stopped the CLARITY Act, what happens next and why the financial system continues building around XRP.

We also cover Ripple Swell 2026, the XRPL AI Starter Kit, the critical D'CENT security warning and the growing battle over AI.

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TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Cold Open - They Blocked Clarity, And We Called It

1:21 Welcome to On The Chain

2:38 Ripple Swell 2026 - The Full Agenda Goes Live

10:18 XRPL Joins The Open Wallet Standard - Tempo And Stripe

11:52 Another Wallet Warning - D'CENT And What We Still Don't Know

14:27 So Much For The Clarity Act

16:45 Garlinghouse: "This One Stings"

21:29 Nobody Knows The Democrats Better Than Ripple

25:44 Michael Bennett Votes Against The Bill He Asked For

29:03 Senator Hirono Has Nothing To Say

31:38 Tom Tillis And The Motion To Reconsider

34:31 Dick Durbin: The Bubble And Social Security

39:04 Josh Hawley, Small-Town Banks And The Farmers

41:35 The Chat Weighs In - Iran, Turkey And The Real Enemy

49:48 AI Safety Is The New Climate Change

51:04 Anthropic, OpenAI And The Effective Altruism Crowd

54:33 Why American Builders Reach For Chinese Models

55:42 JD Vance On Frankenstein

1:04:27 Andrew Ng On Fear-Mongering And Regulatory Capture

1:08:21 Every Democrat Is Doing An Obama Impression

1:11:21 Around The World - Time Magazine, Canada And The EU

1:15:54 Mitch McConnell And The Wheelchair Videos

1:18:49 Sign-Off

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Something much bigger is being built around XRP, and the pieces are getting harder to ignore.

RLUSD is expanding its liquidity and distribution through Spark’s Stablecoin FX Layer. At the same time, the XRP Ledger Foundation is talking openly about writing TradFi primitives directly into the XRPL, including lending, infrastructure and agentic payments.

Flare is experimenting with new ways to generate XRP rewards. Canton continues advancing institutional settlement infrastructure. And while all of this is happening, another XRPL project bites the dust.

Then Washington enters a critical week for crypto as the CLARITY Act heads toward a major Senate vote.

And we’re going around the world: Trump in Ireland, the growing conversation around a reunited Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland challenging the future of the UK, Putin warning about Europe and Russia, and Trump declaring that whoever wins the AI race wins.

The financial system is changing. The infrastructure is being built. And XRP keeps showing up in places that matter.

At some point you have to ask:

What are they building... and why does XRP keep ending up in the middle of it?

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XRP may be becoming the key to something much bigger than payments.

Ripple is challenging the idea that every regulated stablecoin is created equal. A money transmitter license, state trust charter, and federal prudential supervision each carry different reserve requirements, verification standards, and consequences if an issuer fails. As stablecoins become part of the financial system, the level of regulatory oversight behind them could determine which assets institutions are willing to trust.

Clearpool is also expanding to the XRP Ledger, bringing institutional-ready credit and lending infrastructure directly to XRPL. The proposal includes migrating from CPOOL to CLEAR and recapitalizing the treasury to fund incentives, adoption, and the platform’s next phase of growth. Institutional credit remains largely untapped on XRPL, but Clearpool believes the opportunity is massive.

At the same time, RippleX is working with Common Prefix to formally verify the XRP Ledger. This effort goes directly to the reliability and security institutions require before moving serious financial activity onchain. We are also looking at the XRPL validation stream, where UNL validators vote on the same ledger hash until consensus is reached and the ledger sequence advances.

Ripple Treasury is pushing even deeper into the Office of the CFO with GSmart and what Ripple describes as Treasury-Native AI. Instead of placing AI beside treasury operations, Ripple is embedding intelligence directly into existing financial policies, data, workflows, and deterministic financial logic while keeping people responsible for the final decisions.

Solana is also developing confidential transfers and batch functionality, reinforcing the institutional demand for privacy, scale, and controlled financial operations on public blockchain infrastructure.

Tonight, Chip and Jeff connect all of it. Regulated stablecoins. Institutional credit. Formal verification. Treasury-native AI. Confidential transfers. Batch transactions. These are not isolated developments. They are pieces of the financial infrastructure being built for the next era of money.

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