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Shellfish 🐚$⨊Ɛ⧫⧫Ϝıϟ⟁ @XRPeaceOfMind on x 6769 followers Created: 2025-06-28 13:04:08 UTC

Ripple is quietly building the financial infrastructure of the future, and when you look at the landscape through that lens, it becomes clear: the real power move isn’t choosing between Fireblocks or Bakkt — it’s taking both.

First: Fireblocks

Fireblocks is the go-to backend for hundreds of institutions already moving billions in digital assets. It’s the invisible infrastructure powering secure wallet management, stablecoin transfers, and DeFi integrations — basically, the Stripe or AWS of digital asset movement. Ripple doesn’t just want access to that layer — it wants influence over it.

Owning or even strategically aligning with Fireblocks means Ripple can: •Tap directly into institutional flows already in motion. •Offer end-to-end custody and wallet tech in-house. •Integrate their Interledger Protocol (ILP) and XRP liquidity services beneath it all.

Fireblocks gives Ripple scale and reach — deep roots in the institutional tech layer that most retail observers never even see.

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Then: Bakkt

Now contrast that with Bakkt. It’s not a hot exchange or a flashy retail app — it’s infrastructure. Quiet, powerful infrastructure.

Bakkt is publicly traded, which immediately gives Ripple credibility with U.S. regulators and Wall Street. But it’s what Bakkt owns that really matters: •Standard Custody, a regulated, enterprise-grade digital asset custodian. •Apex Clearing, a legacy TradFi system with pathways into broker-dealers, equities, and institutional finance.

Bakkt is Ripple’s bridge between the crypto-native world and the real-world assets (RWA) tokenization movement that is just getting started. It’s not about hype. It’s about controlling the pipes.

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So Why Both?

Because Fireblocks gives Ripple dynamic reach into current institutional flows. Bakkt gives Ripple regulatory roots and clearing access in the traditional financial system.

Together, they allow Ripple to become the full-stack operating system for global finance: •XRP as the settlement layer •XRPL as the decentralized platform •ILP as the interoperability protocol •Fireblocks as the custody + secure movement layer •Bakkt as the compliance, clearing, and tokenization backbone

This isn’t about being a better exchange. It’s about becoming the rails and rules of digital finance.

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Fireblocks gives Ripple the keys to the current institutional world. Bakkt gives Ripple the platform to govern the next one.

And Ripple can afford both — right now.

This is how you quietly build the Internet of Value and make XRP indispensable to its movement — not just as a currency, but as a protocol for trust, flow, and finality. Laugh all you want I will be a game theory, cyber security, dlt, ai wielding network navigating force to be reckoned with. ❤️

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