🔥 NEW: The head of the global derivatives trade body says the industry is preparing for tokenized collateral and 24/7 markets. ISDA is now the building standards for tokenized derivatives. Trillions in money market funds could become collateral through tokenization.

RT @gverdian: Programmable Yen next?

My beef with Abdul: He says he’s a doctor. He’s not. He’s unlicensed. He’s for abolishing the police. He deleted the tweet, but CNN found it. His staff denied he’s a dual citizen w Egypt. Video shows Abdul saying he’s a dual citizen and he summered in Egypt. He refuses to condemn the Muslim Brotherhood and Iran. He blames terrorism on America’s policies. He calls Israel bloodthirsty. Who uses that language? He says he hasn’t taken a penny of corporate contributions, but his FEC report shows he received $1.9 million in contributions from 629 corporate executives, including from Nvidia, Google and Pfizer. Abdul is a conman.

JUST IN: CFTC lists BTC, ETH, SOL, XLM, XTZ and XRP as examples of “digital commodities.” Under the CFTC/SEC taxonomy, digital commodities are generally NOT securities. This could mean less SEC uncertainty, clearer oversight and an easier path for US crypto listings.

The CFTC drops new crypto rules. 👀⬇️

The lesson from FTX’s failure should have been obvious. America shouldn’t have to choose between responsible innovation in crypto and protecting market participants from fraud and abuse. It needs prophylactic rules that reasonably ensure both. Today, the @CFTC is taking action to make that possible.

It does. Whole chapters, in fact. #xrpripple

Since the advent of Bitcoin in 2008, the crypto asset market has grown from a niche curiosity into a multi-trillion-dollar asset class to which investors actively seek exposure. Unfortunately, our rules and regulations have not kept pace. To that end, today’s proposal would provide a clear regulatory framework for the custody of crypto assets, giving investment advisers and funds a compliant pathway where none existed before—and replacing the grey of uncertainty created by custody rules crafted for a bygone era.

HOLY SH*T Remember when Abdul El Sayed claimed he WASN'T a socialist? Well, here is the Detroit Democratic Socialists of America (@detroitdsa) WELCOMING him as their newest "comrade" in 2019. Any comment, @AbdulElSayed?

On 3-Aug-2024, we calculated the Wave 1 top at $3.3939. It printed. Wave 3 is next, targeting $36. Volume is building the same way it did before Wave 1. The bell for XRP rings at Nasdaq soon. (not financial advice, just my thoughts)

🚨 HOLY CRAP! 60 Minutes was FORCED to air this “[President Trump] will go down in the annals of Iranian history as the most-celebrated foreign leader that changed the ballgame and changed the world as a result!” That’s the truth! 🔥

Every major institution is racing to tokenize.

🇧🇷 Brazilian central securities depository CSD BR has announced XRP Ledger integration into the country’s regulated financial market infrastructure. CSD BR has more than BRL 22 trillion, roughly $4 trillion, in registered assets and provides registration, depository and settlement services across Brazil’s financial markets. The first phase begins with BTG Pactual investment fund shares, which will be tokenized and mirrored on the XRP Ledger using its Multi-Purpose Token standard. The blockchain will provide an additional layer for querying, reconciliation and auditing, while CSD BR’s existing systems remain the official source of record for registration, deposit and settlement. Future phases could expand into native issuance and trading of regulated real estate and agribusiness receivables.

A licensed central securities depository is recording securities ownership on a public blockchain for the first time — on the XRP Ledger. 🇧🇷 CSD BR is partnering with Ripple to bring Brazil's regulated capital markets onchain, starting with BTG Pactual fund shares, secured by Ripple Custody. ripple.com/ripple-press/csdb…

DOCUMENT FOUND 🧐 Citi has released “The Connective Tissue of Digital Finance: Interoperability, Programmability, and the Path to Institutional Scale,” a new September 2026 paper co-authored by SWIFT and DTCC. The paper explicitly identifies Canton Network as part of DTCC’s multi-chain strategy alongside its private Besu infrastructure, with Stellar and Circle integration in development for 2027. This comes as DTCC prepares to launch its Tokenization Service in October 2026, with the service launching on Canton for tokenized DTC-held U.S. Treasuries, equities and ETFs. The private side is developing in parallel. DTCC’s forthcoming Collateral AppChain, built on its private Besu network, is designed as shared infrastructure for near real-time collateral management and mobility across market participants, custodians, jurisdictions and blockchain networks. DTCC and Chainlink have now separately confirmed that the Collateral AppChain leverages Chainlink CRE, CCIP and Data Feeds for orchestration, cross-chain interoperability and collateral valuation. The architecture taking shape: • Canton: public blockchain within DTCC’s multi-chain strategy • DTCC Collateral AppChain / Besu: private institutional collateral infrastructure • Chainlink: orchestration, interoperability and data across DTCC and participating blockchain networks • Stellar: additional public blockchain integration in development for 2027 • Circle: integration in development for 2027 The broader message from Citi, SWIFT and DTCC is that institutional tokenization is increasingly being integrated into existing custody, clearing, settlement and central-bank infrastructure rather than built as a separate financial system. canton-network:native ethereum:0x514910771af9ca656af840dff83e8264ecf986ca stellar:native ethereum:0xa0b86991c6218b36c1d19d4a2e9eb0ce3606eb48

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CEO OF THE @The_DTCC CONFIRMS ✅ 👇🏼 "WE ARE ALL IN" $XRP $SOL $CC $QNT DARK POOL UPDATE 👀🎯

If you're wondering why $QNT price pumped 3x this week, this list is probably a good place to start ↓↓ • Quant was just chosen to build the next generation of US bank money. The Clearing House, owned by 25 major US banks like Chase, Bank of America, HSBC, and Citi settle more than $2 trillion per day and selected Quant to connect its new on-chain money network. • Quant is now powering the largest banks in the UK. Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds, NatWest, Santander and others are now executing live customer transactions on infrastructure built by Quant. • Quant is directly integrated into Murex’s MX.3 platform. MX.3 is the financial software engine powering 65 of the world's 100 largest banks, and Quant gives them crypto-ready infrastructure without requiring them to rewrite existing infrastructure. • Oracle has put Quant inside its enterprise digital-asset stack. One of the world's largest enterprise software companies has certified Overledger to provide cross-ledger orchestration for settling transactions across different ledgers and off-chain databases. • Quant is shaping the standards that will govern value movement across the internet. SATP is designed to let digital assets move safely between separate networks, and the protocol is now in the IETF's final community-review stage before a decision on publication. • Quant has built technology for the Bank for International Settlements and the Bank of England. Project Rosalind tested 33 API functions and 30+ real-world use cases, with Quant supplying blockchain infrastructure, smart contracts and interoperability. • The European Central Bank picked Quant to help experiment with the Digital Euro. Quant is testing how programmable payments could work directly with central-bank digital money, putting it inside one of Europe’s most important future payments projects. • Quant has already integrated with Nexi’s European payments infrastructure. The underlying SIA network spans 580 nodes across 208,000+ km of fiber, connecting banks, payment providers, and financial institutions across Europe. • Quant has been working on blockchain infrastructure spanning 12 countries across Latin America. The LACChain network gives Quant exposure to cross-border payments, tokenized money and interoperability across multiple national markets. • Quant has a direct route into Japan’s banking system through Dentsu Soken. Dentsu Soken builds mission-critical systems tied to BOJNET, SWIFT, CLS, internet banking, and core banking, and the partnership includes a joint go-to-market plan for Japanese banks. • Quant has been granted multiple patents across the US, Europe, Japan, and China. This gives Quant a defensible IP position in one of the hardest problems in digital finance — enterprise-grade multi-ledger technology. • Quant’s founder helped launch the ISO standard for blockchain and distributed ledger technology. Gilbert Verdian was instrumental in establishing ISO/TC 307, the international committee for blockchain and distributed ledger standards, going on to lead its interoperability working group. • Quant isn't betting the company on just one product. Overledger, Quant Flow, PayScript, QuantNet, and Fusion give it multiple products around interoperability, programmable money, payments, and multi-network settlement. • Gilbert was working on this problem before most people had even heard the word “interoperability.” Before Quant, he spent 20+ years in cybersecurity and senior technology roles across the Federal Reserve, Bank of England, HM Treasury, Mastercard, PricewaterhouseCoopers, HSBC, Ernst & Young, and other major institutions. • $QNT is unusually scarce for an asset servicing a global market. Its maximum supply is just 14.88 million tokens, giving it one of the tightest supply profiles in large-cap crypto. As we've seen this week, when demand spikes, upward moves can be violent. • Staking could create an even more powerful supply-and-demand loop. Likely arriving in 2027, Quant's staking mechanism could see millions of $QNT tokens locked away, while participants earn rewards and growing network usage competes for the same fixed supply. • All of this is only what we're allowed to see. Quant is built to operate behind the scenes as white-label infrastructure; we actually have no idea how many more integrations are already live, being tested, or sitting in the pipeline waiting to be announced. So when people ask me why $QNT suddenly ran this hard this week, I think they're asking the wrong question. The better question is why the market ignored all of this evidence for so long.

I would like to remind everyone that the Bank of England does more transaction volume in one day than Bitcoin does in a whole year and the Bank of England will primarily run on $QNT & $XRP infrastructure. As will the other central banks as well! $QNT = Internet of Trust $XRP = Internet of Value

Democrats asked for new authority to cut off money laundering through offshore exchanges like Binance. The Clarity Act gives Treasury that authority. Democrats voted no on protecting Americans from offshore money laundering through exchanges like Binance.