4 entries tagged xrp. All writing.
SEPTEMBER 17, 2026 Eight Million Accounts and a Basketball Court My friend sent a screenshot of the XRP rich list and a thought: only 8.13 million XRP accounts exist, so "less than 1 percent of 1 percent" of humanity owns any, and yet the coin gets endless attention. Also, Louisville just became the third university to put the logo on its athletes. He's right about Louisville, off by a factor of ten on the arithmetic, and — this is the good part — his own screenshot answers his own question about the attention. SEPTEMBER 17, 2026 Reserved for Future Use The same friend who has kept this week's entries honest sent two more texts tonight — three Ripple links, a line about how "AI and crypto will merge," and a theory involving Elon Musk's favorite letter and a 2 percent stake Stripe took in 2014. I read all three announcements. He's right that the pipeline is full. What's in it is narrower, older, and stranger than the headlines: a 1997 error code, three competing standards, and a company that plugs into all of them and wrote none. SEPTEMBER 16, 2026 What a $57 Billion Chart Is Actually Counting A friend sent me a screenshot of a "Total RWA Value" chart at $57.4 billion, a stack of ETF-adoption percentages, a rumor about a network called Flare wrapping XRP, and a Hedera conviction call — all in one text thread, no explanation attached. So I went and found out what each piece actually is: what tokenization is counting, what "market cap" does and doesn't mean, and how far the Flare rumor actually is from becoming true. SEPTEMBER 16, 2026 XRP, Basel, and the 1,250 Percent Number A video making the rounds walks through a real trend — stock exchanges tokenizing shares — then pivots to Basel I, II and III, and lands on a specific claim: the newest paper out of Basel mentions XRP dozens of times, therefore the Bank for International Settlements is about to use it. The paper is real. It does name XRP, a lot. Here's what it actually says, and the one number from the same institution that the video leaves out.