[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] #  @heythereRich SonOfaRichard SonOfaRichard posts on X about liquidity, rlusd, xrp, books the most. They currently have XXXXX followers and XX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours. ### Engagements: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::919395324539613184/interactions)  - X Week XXXXXXX +2,553% - X Month XXXXXXX +793% - X Months XXXXXXX +1,360% - X Year XXXXXXX +1,336,391% ### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::919395324539613184/posts_active)  - X Week XX +63% - X Month XXX -XXXX% - X Months XXX +688% - X Year XXX +41,050% ### Followers: XXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::919395324539613184/followers)  - X Week XXXXX +189% - X Month XXXXX +194% - X Months XXXXX +335% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::919395324539613184/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [finance](/list/finance) #6086 [cryptocurrencies](/list/cryptocurrencies) #2065 [exchanges](/list/exchanges) #4091 [stocks](/list/stocks) XXX% [countries](/list/countries) XXX% [currencies](/list/currencies) #1184 [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) XXXX% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) XXXX% [luxury brands](/list/luxury-brands) XXXX% [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands) XXXX% **Social topic influence** [liquidity](/topic/liquidity) #91, [rlusd](/topic/rlusd) #10, [xrp](/topic/xrp) #101, [books](/topic/books) #539, [agencies](/topic/agencies) #148, [derivatives](/topic/derivatives) #47, [if you](/topic/if-you) 5.06%, [crypto](/topic/crypto) #1643, [$rlusd](/topic/$rlusd) 3.8%, [solana](/topic/solana) #232 **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@ripple](/creator/undefined) [@beyondbroke](/creator/undefined) [@chadsteingraber](/creator/undefined) [@digperspectives](/creator/undefined) [@remireliefx](/creator/undefined) [@redotpay](/creator/undefined) [@tomsbestlife](/creator/undefined) [@xrpwallets](/creator/undefined) [@nategeraci](/creator/undefined) [@absgmcrypto](/creator/undefined) [@321mba](/creator/undefined) [@gciander27704](/creator/undefined) [@osceolamo1948](/creator/undefined) [@cowboycrypto313](/creator/undefined) [@franciscomemor](/creator/undefined) [@stevenmcclurg](/creator/undefined) [@johnedeaton1](/creator/undefined) [@belisarius2020](/creator/undefined) [@kendrahillxrp](/creator/undefined) [@subjectiveviews](/creator/undefined) **Top assets mentioned** [XRP (XRP)](/topic/xrp) [Ripple USD (RLUSD)](/topic/$rlusd) [Solana (SOL)](/topic/solana) [Coinbase Global, Inc. (COIN)](/topic/coinbase) [Bitcoin (BTC)](/topic/bitcoin) [Ethereum (ETH)](/topic/ethereum) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "What Actually Happened This Week The CFTC SEC and DTCC all moved in the same direction this week. Different agencies different mandates but the same structural outcome: XRP is now treated as a commodity-grade collateral asset inside a federally regulated derivatives ecosystem. That is not narrative. That is plumbing. And it happened today. Most people saw the headline. Almost nobody connected the rails: X. The CFTC approved XRP as an acceptable asset for Bitnomials regulated derivatives platform. This is the same standard applied to gold FX treasuries and LME metals. You do not get included" [X Link](https://x.com/heythereRich/status/1996769328214012216) 2025-12-05T02:31Z 3938 followers, 256.4K engagements "Something is off in the charts and the timing is almost too defined. XRP has been pinned between $2.02$2.04 for almost XX hours straight. Weekend. Low volume. Bid/ask depth evaporated. Multiple interval failures on Coinbase 1D 4H 1H 15m UI breaking before price. Books thin across Coinbase Kraken Bitstamp. Liquidity cliffs everywhere. Repricing shelves visible if you know how the engines behave. Thats not normal behavior. Thats not retail boredom. This is what happens when a liquidity engine absorbs everything and the market stops behaving like a public order book. Price doesnt drift. It sits." [X Link](https://x.com/heythereRich/status/1997500328074219964) 2025-12-07T02:56Z 3938 followers, 113.9K engagements "The pattern becomes clearer when you zoom out. Ripple Prime is being positioned as the venue for institutions who now can participate legally because XRP has commodity-grade clarity after last week. RLUSD gives those same institutions a compliant programmable settlement dollar that plugs directly into the XRPL without touching the congestion or uncertainty sitting over other chains. And while the broader market is still waiting on Clarity Act outcomes XRP now occupies a regulatory lane no other major asset currently has: a clean path for institutional liquidity and a dedicated rails ecosystem" [X Link](https://x.com/heythereRich/status/1998036246820491300) 2025-12-08T14:25Z 3931 followers, 5648 engagements "@DigPerspectives RLUSD + CFTC clarity + Prime isnt an accident. Thats the stack institutions migrate toward now that the music has changed" [X Link](https://x.com/heythereRich/status/1998037613589262480) 2025-12-08T14:31Z 3876 followers, XXX engagements "Most folks are still watching charts and raging about price. Institutions are watching pipes. Because its pipes 1st price 2nd. The moment XRP was cleared to trade on a CFTC-regulated venue the conversation shifted from speculation to infrastructure. Rails are being standardized right in front of us: settlement liquidity compliance. If you know what youre looking at its obvious where this is heading. This is the blueprint. This is the way. And Ripple Prime is ready to roar" [X Link](https://x.com/heythereRich/status/1998033265458884981) 2025-12-08T14:13Z 3930 followers, 6973 engagements "@cowboycrypto313 Smoke smoke and more smoke" [X Link](https://x.com/heythereRich/status/1998054312379912536) 2025-12-08T15:37Z 3875 followers, XXX engagements "The wild thing is people still call this hopium when the signals are all moving in the same direction. ISO 20022 goes live Liquidity corridors open Banks need real-time settlement SWIFT needs a bridge asset And multiple XRP ETFs go live simultaneously not an accident Theres only one asset built for that role. Some post this for nostalgia. Others post it because they understand exactly whats being lined up. #XRP" [X Link](https://x.com/heythereRich/status/1993323900776673589) 2025-11-25T14:20Z 3823 followers, 1649 engagements "Youre watching the early stages of a global liquidity rotation AND the early signs of legacy settlement breaking. And simultaneously: Ripple gets fully licensed RLUSD scales Banks relocate trading desks to the same hub Japan bonds destabilize ETFs begin daily demand burning supply XRP liquidity thins on exchanges Order books show accumulation not panic Macro stress rises globally FX rails prepare for a reset This is EXACTLY the kind of environment where a neutral compliant globally licensed institution-friendly settlement asset (XRP) becomes indispensable. Exactly what Garlinghouse has been" [X Link](https://x.com/heythereRich/status/1995367875444392084) 2025-12-01T05:42Z 3675 followers, XX engagements "RedotPay just changed the game w/ @Ripple $XRP and $RLUSD Ripple just opened one of the most important payment corridors in the world. @RedotPay a global stablecoin fintech just integrated Ripple Payments to enable: Send Crypto Receive NGN (Nigerian Naira) This is big really big. Why Because this corridor solves the hardest problem in global payments: high fees (6.49% average) slow settlement (15 days) volatile FX de-risking failing correspondent banks unreliable SWIFT routes Ripple Payments replaces all of that with: near-instant settlement transparent pricing stablecoin compatibility" [X Link](https://x.com/heythereRich/status/1995727262709174712) 2025-12-02T05:30Z 3726 followers, XXX engagements "๐งต PART X @Ripple Payments Is a Threat (and $RLUSD Is a Weapon) Ripple Payments threatens anyone who profits from: slow settlement FX spreads remittance fees SWIFT choke points opaque liquidity systems When is it used Whenever slow expensive unreliable must become fast cheap instant. Heres the secret that institutions now understand: $RLUSD becomes the send-side stablecoin. And yesthis strengthens the $USD because: global users settle in dollars $USD becomes the easiest global settlement asset it deepens dollar liquidity in emerging markets it cements USD in global remittances $XRP then" [X Link](https://x.com/heythereRich/status/1995728256926949765) 2025-12-02T05:34Z 3617 followers, 6608 engagements "2 They only need XRP temporarily for settlement flows ODL corridors dont need giant XRP bags held for years. They need float not ownership. You can think of it like borrowing cash overnight to settle payments. You dont own the cash; you just use it" [X Link](https://x.com/heythereRich/status/1996568516829274407) 2025-12-04T13:13Z 3867 followers, XX engagements "3 Regulation Banks and payment processors DONT want to be classified as: crypto investors crypto speculators entities holding volatile assets Borrowing XRP avoids triggering these definitions" [X Link](https://x.com/heythereRich/status/1996568523812835716) 2025-12-04T13:13Z 3859 followers, XX engagements "Everyones joking about the Pump Room but after this week it feels a little on-the-nose. CFTC classifies XRP as a commodity. DTCC shifts to XXX. Bitnomial approval flips derivatives on. MPI license. Redot + HK corridors warming. G-Treasury closes. RLUSD minting up again. This isnt memes. This is sequencing the quiet alignment before major infrastructure approvals. And history says: Wednesdays and Fridays are when the real approvals hit. If youre tracking XRPs macro structure the plumbing behind the price follow along. No hype. Just signals" [X Link](https://x.com/heythereRich/status/1996773596530663668) 2025-12-05T02:48Z 3666 followers, 1721 engagements "WHAT HAPPENS WHEN AN ASSET BECOMES COLLATERAL -And why yesterday changes everything Lets get one thing straight: When an asset becomes collateral nobody is hoping it works out. Nobody is lighting candles. Nobody is crossing fingers. Assets become collateral because the highest levels of the system already decided they need it to work. Thats why U.S. Treasuries become eligible collateral before the new repo market mechanisms go live. Thats why golds price exploded once it became Tier-1 bank capital. Thats why Bitcoin re-rated XX when CME collateralization + futures launched in 2021." [X Link](https://x.com/heythereRich/status/1996935894331281756) 2025-12-05T13:33Z 3663 followers, 4040 engagements "๐ฆ XRP becoming collateral forces a re-rate Not might. Not maybe. Not if utility kicks in. Must. Its not priced for what it was. It must reprice for what it was just approved to do. You dont become collateral and stay at a meme price. Collateral assets require deep liquidity wide buffers and stable pricing bands to absorb institutional usage. Gold did it. Oil did it. Bitcoin did it. XRP is next and unlike those assets XRP already has global corridors live before the price move" [X Link](https://x.com/heythereRich/status/1996935901335683150) 2025-12-05T13:33Z 3695 followers, XXX engagements "๐ฆ And now Now comes the hardest part: Waiting. Because once: CPAs reclassify XRP corporates update quarterly filings N-PORT allocations shift derivatives margin desks start modeling Bitnomial pipes start testing liquidity migration begins reserve ratios are recalculated price stops caring about retail charts and candle patterns. It will reprice to reflect the function it was just approved for. And that function is enormous. This isnt a question of if. Its a question of when the machinery turns on. But the conclusion Already baked in. So wait" [X Link](https://x.com/heythereRich/status/1996935903588032579) 2025-12-05T13:33Z 3651 followers, XXX engagements "Heres what this actually means and nobody is saying it: You dont mint in these sizes unless corridors are being pre-loaded. Treasury mints arent marketing. Theyre plumbing. 10M. 20M. Burn events. Reloads. Thats not retail flow. Thats infrastructure getting calibrated ahead of activation. When RLUSD starts behaving like a real settlement asset rather than a pilot the question becomes: Whos preparing to move size through these corridors and how soon do they need it Mint Burn Mint again Thats balance-sheet tuning not speculation. If you track rails instead of headlines the signal is getting" [X Link](https://x.com/heythereRich/status/1997014294995636606) 2025-12-05T18:44Z 3849 followers, 2437 engagements "Most people will see the mint/burn cycles. Few will understand why its happening now. Treasury-level flows dont increase unless corridors are preparing for size. This is balance-sheet tuning not retail activity. If you track collateral behavior instead of headlines the trend is unmistakable. $RLUSD is surging. The liquidity flood is coming to the rails. $XRP + $RLUSD is like @ScottiePippen and MJ23 Bullish" [X Link](https://x.com/heythereRich/status/1997016733815918844) 2025-12-05T18:54Z 3697 followers, 2063 engagements "Dark pool absorption in plain English. Most people only see whats happening on the public exchanges Coinbase Kraken Bitstamp. Thats just the surface layer. And heres the thing nobody thinks about: Why on earth would a big buyer smash the public books and push the price higher just so they can turn around and buy it higher Theyd never do that. They want to pay less not more. We chase green candles. They dont. They get discounts for size. The only discount retail gets is catching a freak dip at X a.m. So instead of buying on the main exchanges they slide everything through dark pools private" [X Link](https://x.com/heythereRich/status/1997516878319669343) 2025-12-07T04:01Z 3932 followers, XXX engagements "The way you laid it out all comes back to one simple thing: who actually controls the settlement rail. You can stack laws company-script precedent the Genius Act the Clarity Act BRICS pressure tokenized RWA all of it and everything else on top of it but none of it works if the underlying rail cant clear value quickly cheaply and everywhere. SCs just carry value. RWA gives it weight and trust. Regulation sets boundaries and rules. But the rail is the thing that decides whether any of this can function in the real world with real volume and real institutions. Thats the part people constantly" [X Link](https://x.com/heythereRich/status/1998008546126970932) 2025-12-08T12:35Z 3877 followers, XXX engagements "@DigPerspectives RLUSD swelling up on Ethereum isnt a loyalty signal its liquidity scouting for better rails. When the settlement layer matures/upgrades liquidity moves. When liquidity moves builders will follow. Thats the real exodus. More like a Trojan horse thats taking over" [X Link](https://x.com/heythereRich/status/1998017674014597423) 2025-12-08T13:11Z 3851 followers, XX engagements "Its wild that nobodys saying the quiet part out loud. A $500M check doesnt just support innovation. It underwrites an outcome. If youre Ripples investor youre effectively betting on three things at once: Ripple the company XRP + RLUSD as the settlement stack And the XRPL outperforming the rest of the field And heres the part people tiptoe around: When you write a check that big youre not rooting for the industry. Youre rooting for your horse to win and for every competing rail to lose momentum just enough for your thesis to play out. Ripple plays good cop and ecosystem diplomat. Their backers" [X Link](https://x.com/heythereRich/status/1998021227642769800) 2025-12-08T13:25Z 3878 followers, 1055 engagements "@tomsbestlife" [X Link](https://x.com/heythereRich/status/1998088450260799685) 2025-12-08T17:53Z 3836 followers, XX engagements "@321MBA Sometimes when you solve one problem you end up solving others by accident or realizing youre not that far off from tackling additional problems. Tech evolves. Users evolve. Needs evolve. Problems + solutions evolve" [X Link](https://x.com/heythereRich/status/1998091084413776016) 2025-12-08T18:03Z 3868 followers, XX engagements "@TruthM65650 @solana Facts. Absolute facts youre spitting right there my man" [X Link](https://x.com/heythereRich/status/1998134335573258601) 2025-12-08T20:55Z 3836 followers, XX engagements "Everyone is celebrating the acquisition. Almost nobody is asking the obvious question: Why did Ripple want a global treasury network anyway in the same week XRP is pulled into the CFTC commodity lane - how are they related They are building a sequence: G-Treasury = the corporate liquidity front door RLUSD = the settlement dollar CFTC = the derivatives lane DTCC XXX = the new operating hours MPI license + Hong Kong corridors = the external rails You dont build this stack for payments. Theyre NOT a payments company anymore. Thats actually LAUGHABLE. You build it for market structure for flows" [X Link](https://x.com/heythereRich/status/1996777695619731605) 2025-12-05T03:04Z 3930 followers, 66.4K engagements "A lot of headlines today but heres the real question: With so much noise do you know which part actually mattered Which event wasnt news but a structural shift Because today wasnt random. Today was orchestrated Magnificently. X XRP was recognized as a commodity. X Spot XRP was approved for trading on Bitnomial. X Bitnomial received a historic CFTC expansion. There was zero hype. Its foundational market plumbing and plumbing always comes before repricing. Heres the simple version: X. Commodity status = eligible collateral. X. Derivatives + spot markets require deep collateral pools. X. When a" [X Link](https://x.com/heythereRich/status/1996786802917544389) 2025-12-05T03:40Z 3904 followers, 31K engagements "Settlement-grade isnt about brand-name coins. Its about who can actually clear value between institutions without blowing up liquidity finality or balance-sheet treatment. BTC settles slowly. ETH settles probabilistically. SOL settles fast but not deterministically. So the real question becomes: Which asset was architected to meet bank-tier requirements in the first place deterministic finality low volatility when scaled through deep liquidity pools regulatory pathways for custody + clearing integration with messaging rails (ISO RTGS ODL analogs) pre-funded liquidity architecture for" [X Link](https://x.com/heythereRich/status/1996928858847654335) 2025-12-05T13:05Z 3930 followers, 6711 engagements "The SEC vs CFTC fight over XRP wasnt noise it was a true reveal. Go back and read the filings. Not the tweets. The filings. Bitnomial literally had the SEC telling them XRP was an unregistered security after Judge Torres ruled it wasnt. Why Because Bitnomial wanted to list XRP futures under the CFTC which requires the underlying asset to not be a security. That was the choke point. Bitnomial wasnt playing politics. They were trying to launch a federally regulated U.S. derivatives market: spot perps futures options with XRP as deliverable collateral. To do that XRP had to live under the CFTC." [X Link](https://x.com/heythereRich/status/1997497758215733378) 2025-12-07T02:45Z 3877 followers, 34.7K engagements "Justin youre looking at this through an old lens - even like a purity contest. Decentralization is not a religion. In institutional finance its a spectrum and it only matters insofar as it supports one outcome: Can this asset be trusted as settlement-grade collateral inside a regulated financial system And thats exactly what definitely changed forever this week. The CFTC just placed XRP into commodity-class treatment inside a federally regulated derivatives venue. This is the same regulatory tier used for: Gold Silver Certain FX currencies Treasury-adjacent collateral (when tokenized) T1As" [X Link](https://x.com/heythereRich/status/1998041564661043432) 2025-12-08T14:46Z 3932 followers, XXX engagements "Weve known about Solana XRPL integration talks for a while. Then it went quiet. On paper theyre polar opposites: Solana is consumer apps DeFi high-speed execution XRPL is corridors settlement institutional rails Solana has users but no compliant USD rail XRPL has regulated rails but doesnt chase retail If they ever truly link up the optimal design is clear: Solana handles the front-end flow. XRPL handles final settlement. Ripple provides compliance and enterprise connectivity. RLUSD becomes the regulated USD rail between them. XRP sits underneath as neutral collateral. Thats a multi-chain" [X Link](https://x.com/heythereRich/status/1998122434046886105) 2025-12-08T20:08Z 3931 followers, 38.7K engagements "Heres the part no ones going to say out loud: This speech from the Comptroller of the Currency reads exactly like the posture youd expect right before approving one or more digital-asset trust banks. Three things jumped off the page immediately: X. Reopening. De novo chartering has been frozen for over a decade. Now the OCC has received XX applications in 2025 alone several from firms engaged in digital-asset activities. Thats a shift in policy not an accident. X. Defending. Gould goes out of his way to remind the room that national trust banks have been conducting non-fiduciary digital-asset" [X Link](https://x.com/heythereRich/status/1998132784825508319) 2025-12-08T20:49Z 3937 followers, 23.3K engagements "@AdamBLiv An avalanche begins. Bullish" [X Link](https://x.com/heythereRich/status/1998650037078040771) 2025-12-10T07:04Z 3938 followers, XX engagements "People see an acquisition. What theyre missing is whats being consolidated. CoinMENA wasnt just a regional exchange it was a licensed corridor operator for RLUSD in Dubai and Bahrain. Paribu didnt buy a brand. They bought regulatory reach. When you combine regulated jurisdictions under one roof you tighten the rails: fewer intermediaries cleaner compliance paths faster settlement windows larger liquidity buckets and a clearer route for RLUSD XRP corridors to scale This is what early-stage consolidation looks like in a new payments architecture. Before volume grows the industry shrinks to the" [X Link](https://x.com/heythereRich/status/1997357569606549659) 2025-12-06T17:28Z 3931 followers, 3069 engagements "Corridors are tightening. Paribu didnt buy CoinMENA for users they bought licenses. Regulated routes across Dubai Bahrain and Turkey under one operator sets the stage for real throughput. Before utility scales the industry consolidates. Rails first. Liquidity next. If you track corridors M&A and regional regulation you already know what comes after this. ๐ The bigger picture tied in" [X Link](https://x.com/heythereRich/status/1997358059786494248) 2025-12-06T17:30Z 3909 followers, 2893 engagements "2 words for everyone: RIPPLE PRIME ๐ The Ferrari in the Garage ๐ Where Ripple Prime Fits in This Shift Ripple Prime was built for EXACTLY this moment. Think of it as the institutional on-ramp that only matters once institutions are allowed to enter the digital-asset markets in size. Before Bitnomial + CFTC classification Ripple Prime was like a Ferrari in the garage: beautiful engineered but not allowed on the interstate. Now the interstate just opened. A CFTC-regulated XRP venue means: X Prime can route institutional flow to legal liquidity pools Compliance desks no longer have to say No." [X Link](https://x.com/heythereRich/status/1998028994063540688) 2025-12-08T13:56Z 3932 followers, 5874 engagements "The 21Shares XRP ETF just filed Amendment No. X and this one matters. When an ETF gets this close to launch the filings change: Final accounting sign-off Updated disclosures Custody confirmations Creation/redemption mechanics Continuous offering box checked These amendments arent confusion. Theyre finalization. BTC had this pattern. ETH had this pattern. Now XRP is showing the same smoke. Multiple agencies moved last week. Today the paperwork is catching up. This is what an asset looks like when its being slotted into the institutional rails: commodity treatment custodial readiness ETF" [X Link](https://x.com/heythereRich/status/1998043848186999004) 2025-12-08T14:55Z 3938 followers, 52.5K engagements "The funny thing is Ripple would never touch retail directly if they could avoid it. But they do need liquidity and Solana is one of the fastest ways to push RLUSD and XRP into the consumer economy without turning XRPL into a casino chain. Solanas problem is the opposite: huge app adoption almost zero corridor depth in regulated markets and no real compliant USD rail. XRPL gives them the ATM the plumbing and the bank layer plus an exit into commodity-status collateral. For institutional money that matters a lot. The optimal setup is simple: Solana: execution and DeFi XRPL: settlement Ripple:" [X Link](https://x.com/heythereRich/status/1998122062104174868) 2025-12-08T20:06Z 3938 followers, 40.4K engagements "@beyond_broke You rock. When someone asks a questionsmall or bigyou answer it. Even more when you interview someone you never cut them off talk over them you listen to LISTEN with humility. Glad YOU ended up being the guy. Thanks Jake" [X Link](https://x.com/heythereRich/status/1998166671127679001) 2025-12-08T23:03Z 3932 followers, 11.3K engagements "When exchange balances break below the price structure youre not looking at trader behavior anymore. Youre looking at liquidity migration assets leaving public books and getting absorbed into private rails. That only happens ahead of new market structure: index fund construction ETF basket formation futures collateral requirements bank custody pre-positioning OTC inventory build-outs Price is still showing the old regime. Supply is signaling the new one. This is the tell. ๐" [X Link](https://x.com/heythereRich/status/1998611147214246392) 2025-12-10T04:30Z 3935 followers, 3634 engagements "The filings arent random. Theyre a sequence. Bitwise opens the door to crypto index funds. Hashdex shows XRP sitting at XXX% weight. WisdomTree steps in with their own index. Truth Social rolls out a Blue Chip ETF that explicitly lists XRP. OCC clears banks for principal crypto transactions. MoonPay integrates Apple Pay on-ramps for XRP. All in the same window. And at the exact same moment Exchange balances collapse while price drifts sideways the classic disconnect you see when the asset gets pulled off public shelves and into institutional plumbing. This isnt hype. Its architecture. One by" [X Link](https://x.com/heythereRich/status/1998611701713846358) 2025-12-10T04:32Z 3935 followers, 3457 engagements "@GcIander27704 Liquidity inbound. RLUSD mounting. Several corridors are ready. Several need work The problem with corridors - theyre not as effective if the people (parties) on the other side of the world arent live. Doesnt really work so well" [X Link](https://x.com/heythereRich/status/1998637979284201516) 2025-12-10T06:16Z 3930 followers, XX engagements "The path well-traveled was never going to get this done. The path of least resistance never builds new rails. Pioneers Check. Lawsuit Check. Kicked out of SWIFTs conference Check. Began with the end in mind Absolutely. Then came the rest of it: The ETF denials. Autopen signatures. Biden. Gensler. Warren. A regulatory vacuum. Jurisdiction fights. Security vs. commodity theater. The fine. The headlines. The doubt. When has any of this ever been easy People underestimate what happens when the largest economy in the world finally decides its time to modernize its financial plumbing. They" [X Link](https://x.com/heythereRich/status/1998649185000726613) 2025-12-10T07:01Z 3932 followers, XXX engagements
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@heythereRich SonOfaRichardSonOfaRichard posts on X about liquidity, rlusd, xrp, books the most. They currently have XXXXX followers and XX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.
Social category influence finance #6086 cryptocurrencies #2065 exchanges #4091 stocks XXX% countries XXX% currencies #1184 technology brands XXXX% travel destinations XXXX% luxury brands XXXX% automotive brands XXXX%
Social topic influence liquidity #91, rlusd #10, xrp #101, books #539, agencies #148, derivatives #47, if you 5.06%, crypto #1643, $rlusd 3.8%, solana #232
Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @ripple @beyondbroke @chadsteingraber @digperspectives @remireliefx @redotpay @tomsbestlife @xrpwallets @nategeraci @absgmcrypto @321mba @gciander27704 @osceolamo1948 @cowboycrypto313 @franciscomemor @stevenmcclurg @johnedeaton1 @belisarius2020 @kendrahillxrp @subjectiveviews
Top assets mentioned XRP (XRP) Ripple USD (RLUSD) Solana (SOL) Coinbase Global, Inc. (COIN) Bitcoin (BTC) Ethereum (ETH)
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours
"What Actually Happened This Week The CFTC SEC and DTCC all moved in the same direction this week. Different agencies different mandates but the same structural outcome: XRP is now treated as a commodity-grade collateral asset inside a federally regulated derivatives ecosystem. That is not narrative. That is plumbing. And it happened today. Most people saw the headline. Almost nobody connected the rails: X. The CFTC approved XRP as an acceptable asset for Bitnomials regulated derivatives platform. This is the same standard applied to gold FX treasuries and LME metals. You do not get included"
X Link 2025-12-05T02:31Z 3938 followers, 256.4K engagements
"Something is off in the charts and the timing is almost too defined. XRP has been pinned between $2.02$2.04 for almost XX hours straight. Weekend. Low volume. Bid/ask depth evaporated. Multiple interval failures on Coinbase 1D 4H 1H 15m UI breaking before price. Books thin across Coinbase Kraken Bitstamp. Liquidity cliffs everywhere. Repricing shelves visible if you know how the engines behave. Thats not normal behavior. Thats not retail boredom. This is what happens when a liquidity engine absorbs everything and the market stops behaving like a public order book. Price doesnt drift. It sits."
X Link 2025-12-07T02:56Z 3938 followers, 113.9K engagements
"The pattern becomes clearer when you zoom out. Ripple Prime is being positioned as the venue for institutions who now can participate legally because XRP has commodity-grade clarity after last week. RLUSD gives those same institutions a compliant programmable settlement dollar that plugs directly into the XRPL without touching the congestion or uncertainty sitting over other chains. And while the broader market is still waiting on Clarity Act outcomes XRP now occupies a regulatory lane no other major asset currently has: a clean path for institutional liquidity and a dedicated rails ecosystem"
X Link 2025-12-08T14:25Z 3931 followers, 5648 engagements
"@DigPerspectives RLUSD + CFTC clarity + Prime isnt an accident. Thats the stack institutions migrate toward now that the music has changed"
X Link 2025-12-08T14:31Z 3876 followers, XXX engagements
"Most folks are still watching charts and raging about price. Institutions are watching pipes. Because its pipes 1st price 2nd. The moment XRP was cleared to trade on a CFTC-regulated venue the conversation shifted from speculation to infrastructure. Rails are being standardized right in front of us: settlement liquidity compliance. If you know what youre looking at its obvious where this is heading. This is the blueprint. This is the way. And Ripple Prime is ready to roar"
X Link 2025-12-08T14:13Z 3930 followers, 6973 engagements
"@cowboycrypto313 Smoke smoke and more smoke"
X Link 2025-12-08T15:37Z 3875 followers, XXX engagements
"The wild thing is people still call this hopium when the signals are all moving in the same direction. ISO 20022 goes live Liquidity corridors open Banks need real-time settlement SWIFT needs a bridge asset And multiple XRP ETFs go live simultaneously not an accident Theres only one asset built for that role. Some post this for nostalgia. Others post it because they understand exactly whats being lined up. #XRP"
X Link 2025-11-25T14:20Z 3823 followers, 1649 engagements
"Youre watching the early stages of a global liquidity rotation AND the early signs of legacy settlement breaking. And simultaneously: Ripple gets fully licensed RLUSD scales Banks relocate trading desks to the same hub Japan bonds destabilize ETFs begin daily demand burning supply XRP liquidity thins on exchanges Order books show accumulation not panic Macro stress rises globally FX rails prepare for a reset This is EXACTLY the kind of environment where a neutral compliant globally licensed institution-friendly settlement asset (XRP) becomes indispensable. Exactly what Garlinghouse has been"
X Link 2025-12-01T05:42Z 3675 followers, XX engagements
"RedotPay just changed the game w/ @Ripple $XRP and $RLUSD Ripple just opened one of the most important payment corridors in the world. @RedotPay a global stablecoin fintech just integrated Ripple Payments to enable: Send Crypto Receive NGN (Nigerian Naira) This is big really big. Why Because this corridor solves the hardest problem in global payments: high fees (6.49% average) slow settlement (15 days) volatile FX de-risking failing correspondent banks unreliable SWIFT routes Ripple Payments replaces all of that with: near-instant settlement transparent pricing stablecoin compatibility"
X Link 2025-12-02T05:30Z 3726 followers, XXX engagements
"๐งต PART X @Ripple Payments Is a Threat (and $RLUSD Is a Weapon) Ripple Payments threatens anyone who profits from: slow settlement FX spreads remittance fees SWIFT choke points opaque liquidity systems When is it used Whenever slow expensive unreliable must become fast cheap instant. Heres the secret that institutions now understand: $RLUSD becomes the send-side stablecoin. And yesthis strengthens the $USD because: global users settle in dollars $USD becomes the easiest global settlement asset it deepens dollar liquidity in emerging markets it cements USD in global remittances $XRP then"
X Link 2025-12-02T05:34Z 3617 followers, 6608 engagements
"2 They only need XRP temporarily for settlement flows ODL corridors dont need giant XRP bags held for years. They need float not ownership. You can think of it like borrowing cash overnight to settle payments. You dont own the cash; you just use it"
X Link 2025-12-04T13:13Z 3867 followers, XX engagements
"3 Regulation Banks and payment processors DONT want to be classified as: crypto investors crypto speculators entities holding volatile assets Borrowing XRP avoids triggering these definitions"
X Link 2025-12-04T13:13Z 3859 followers, XX engagements
"Everyones joking about the Pump Room but after this week it feels a little on-the-nose. CFTC classifies XRP as a commodity. DTCC shifts to XXX. Bitnomial approval flips derivatives on. MPI license. Redot + HK corridors warming. G-Treasury closes. RLUSD minting up again. This isnt memes. This is sequencing the quiet alignment before major infrastructure approvals. And history says: Wednesdays and Fridays are when the real approvals hit. If youre tracking XRPs macro structure the plumbing behind the price follow along. No hype. Just signals"
X Link 2025-12-05T02:48Z 3666 followers, 1721 engagements
"WHAT HAPPENS WHEN AN ASSET BECOMES COLLATERAL -And why yesterday changes everything Lets get one thing straight: When an asset becomes collateral nobody is hoping it works out. Nobody is lighting candles. Nobody is crossing fingers. Assets become collateral because the highest levels of the system already decided they need it to work. Thats why U.S. Treasuries become eligible collateral before the new repo market mechanisms go live. Thats why golds price exploded once it became Tier-1 bank capital. Thats why Bitcoin re-rated XX when CME collateralization + futures launched in 2021."
X Link 2025-12-05T13:33Z 3663 followers, 4040 engagements
"๐ฆ XRP becoming collateral forces a re-rate Not might. Not maybe. Not if utility kicks in. Must. Its not priced for what it was. It must reprice for what it was just approved to do. You dont become collateral and stay at a meme price. Collateral assets require deep liquidity wide buffers and stable pricing bands to absorb institutional usage. Gold did it. Oil did it. Bitcoin did it. XRP is next and unlike those assets XRP already has global corridors live before the price move"
X Link 2025-12-05T13:33Z 3695 followers, XXX engagements
"๐ฆ And now Now comes the hardest part: Waiting. Because once: CPAs reclassify XRP corporates update quarterly filings N-PORT allocations shift derivatives margin desks start modeling Bitnomial pipes start testing liquidity migration begins reserve ratios are recalculated price stops caring about retail charts and candle patterns. It will reprice to reflect the function it was just approved for. And that function is enormous. This isnt a question of if. Its a question of when the machinery turns on. But the conclusion Already baked in. So wait"
X Link 2025-12-05T13:33Z 3651 followers, XXX engagements
"Heres what this actually means and nobody is saying it: You dont mint in these sizes unless corridors are being pre-loaded. Treasury mints arent marketing. Theyre plumbing. 10M. 20M. Burn events. Reloads. Thats not retail flow. Thats infrastructure getting calibrated ahead of activation. When RLUSD starts behaving like a real settlement asset rather than a pilot the question becomes: Whos preparing to move size through these corridors and how soon do they need it Mint Burn Mint again Thats balance-sheet tuning not speculation. If you track rails instead of headlines the signal is getting"
X Link 2025-12-05T18:44Z 3849 followers, 2437 engagements
"Most people will see the mint/burn cycles. Few will understand why its happening now. Treasury-level flows dont increase unless corridors are preparing for size. This is balance-sheet tuning not retail activity. If you track collateral behavior instead of headlines the trend is unmistakable. $RLUSD is surging. The liquidity flood is coming to the rails. $XRP + $RLUSD is like @ScottiePippen and MJ23 Bullish"
X Link 2025-12-05T18:54Z 3697 followers, 2063 engagements
"Dark pool absorption in plain English. Most people only see whats happening on the public exchanges Coinbase Kraken Bitstamp. Thats just the surface layer. And heres the thing nobody thinks about: Why on earth would a big buyer smash the public books and push the price higher just so they can turn around and buy it higher Theyd never do that. They want to pay less not more. We chase green candles. They dont. They get discounts for size. The only discount retail gets is catching a freak dip at X a.m. So instead of buying on the main exchanges they slide everything through dark pools private"
X Link 2025-12-07T04:01Z 3932 followers, XXX engagements
"The way you laid it out all comes back to one simple thing: who actually controls the settlement rail. You can stack laws company-script precedent the Genius Act the Clarity Act BRICS pressure tokenized RWA all of it and everything else on top of it but none of it works if the underlying rail cant clear value quickly cheaply and everywhere. SCs just carry value. RWA gives it weight and trust. Regulation sets boundaries and rules. But the rail is the thing that decides whether any of this can function in the real world with real volume and real institutions. Thats the part people constantly"
X Link 2025-12-08T12:35Z 3877 followers, XXX engagements
"@DigPerspectives RLUSD swelling up on Ethereum isnt a loyalty signal its liquidity scouting for better rails. When the settlement layer matures/upgrades liquidity moves. When liquidity moves builders will follow. Thats the real exodus. More like a Trojan horse thats taking over"
X Link 2025-12-08T13:11Z 3851 followers, XX engagements
"Its wild that nobodys saying the quiet part out loud. A $500M check doesnt just support innovation. It underwrites an outcome. If youre Ripples investor youre effectively betting on three things at once: Ripple the company XRP + RLUSD as the settlement stack And the XRPL outperforming the rest of the field And heres the part people tiptoe around: When you write a check that big youre not rooting for the industry. Youre rooting for your horse to win and for every competing rail to lose momentum just enough for your thesis to play out. Ripple plays good cop and ecosystem diplomat. Their backers"
X Link 2025-12-08T13:25Z 3878 followers, 1055 engagements
"@tomsbestlife"
X Link 2025-12-08T17:53Z 3836 followers, XX engagements
"@321MBA Sometimes when you solve one problem you end up solving others by accident or realizing youre not that far off from tackling additional problems. Tech evolves. Users evolve. Needs evolve. Problems + solutions evolve"
X Link 2025-12-08T18:03Z 3868 followers, XX engagements
"@TruthM65650 @solana Facts. Absolute facts youre spitting right there my man"
X Link 2025-12-08T20:55Z 3836 followers, XX engagements
"Everyone is celebrating the acquisition. Almost nobody is asking the obvious question: Why did Ripple want a global treasury network anyway in the same week XRP is pulled into the CFTC commodity lane - how are they related They are building a sequence: G-Treasury = the corporate liquidity front door RLUSD = the settlement dollar CFTC = the derivatives lane DTCC XXX = the new operating hours MPI license + Hong Kong corridors = the external rails You dont build this stack for payments. Theyre NOT a payments company anymore. Thats actually LAUGHABLE. You build it for market structure for flows"
X Link 2025-12-05T03:04Z 3930 followers, 66.4K engagements
"A lot of headlines today but heres the real question: With so much noise do you know which part actually mattered Which event wasnt news but a structural shift Because today wasnt random. Today was orchestrated Magnificently. X XRP was recognized as a commodity. X Spot XRP was approved for trading on Bitnomial. X Bitnomial received a historic CFTC expansion. There was zero hype. Its foundational market plumbing and plumbing always comes before repricing. Heres the simple version: X. Commodity status = eligible collateral. X. Derivatives + spot markets require deep collateral pools. X. When a"
X Link 2025-12-05T03:40Z 3904 followers, 31K engagements
"Settlement-grade isnt about brand-name coins. Its about who can actually clear value between institutions without blowing up liquidity finality or balance-sheet treatment. BTC settles slowly. ETH settles probabilistically. SOL settles fast but not deterministically. So the real question becomes: Which asset was architected to meet bank-tier requirements in the first place deterministic finality low volatility when scaled through deep liquidity pools regulatory pathways for custody + clearing integration with messaging rails (ISO RTGS ODL analogs) pre-funded liquidity architecture for"
X Link 2025-12-05T13:05Z 3930 followers, 6711 engagements
"The SEC vs CFTC fight over XRP wasnt noise it was a true reveal. Go back and read the filings. Not the tweets. The filings. Bitnomial literally had the SEC telling them XRP was an unregistered security after Judge Torres ruled it wasnt. Why Because Bitnomial wanted to list XRP futures under the CFTC which requires the underlying asset to not be a security. That was the choke point. Bitnomial wasnt playing politics. They were trying to launch a federally regulated U.S. derivatives market: spot perps futures options with XRP as deliverable collateral. To do that XRP had to live under the CFTC."
X Link 2025-12-07T02:45Z 3877 followers, 34.7K engagements
"Justin youre looking at this through an old lens - even like a purity contest. Decentralization is not a religion. In institutional finance its a spectrum and it only matters insofar as it supports one outcome: Can this asset be trusted as settlement-grade collateral inside a regulated financial system And thats exactly what definitely changed forever this week. The CFTC just placed XRP into commodity-class treatment inside a federally regulated derivatives venue. This is the same regulatory tier used for: Gold Silver Certain FX currencies Treasury-adjacent collateral (when tokenized) T1As"
X Link 2025-12-08T14:46Z 3932 followers, XXX engagements
"Weve known about Solana XRPL integration talks for a while. Then it went quiet. On paper theyre polar opposites: Solana is consumer apps DeFi high-speed execution XRPL is corridors settlement institutional rails Solana has users but no compliant USD rail XRPL has regulated rails but doesnt chase retail If they ever truly link up the optimal design is clear: Solana handles the front-end flow. XRPL handles final settlement. Ripple provides compliance and enterprise connectivity. RLUSD becomes the regulated USD rail between them. XRP sits underneath as neutral collateral. Thats a multi-chain"
X Link 2025-12-08T20:08Z 3931 followers, 38.7K engagements
"Heres the part no ones going to say out loud: This speech from the Comptroller of the Currency reads exactly like the posture youd expect right before approving one or more digital-asset trust banks. Three things jumped off the page immediately: X. Reopening. De novo chartering has been frozen for over a decade. Now the OCC has received XX applications in 2025 alone several from firms engaged in digital-asset activities. Thats a shift in policy not an accident. X. Defending. Gould goes out of his way to remind the room that national trust banks have been conducting non-fiduciary digital-asset"
X Link 2025-12-08T20:49Z 3937 followers, 23.3K engagements
"@AdamBLiv An avalanche begins. Bullish"
X Link 2025-12-10T07:04Z 3938 followers, XX engagements
"People see an acquisition. What theyre missing is whats being consolidated. CoinMENA wasnt just a regional exchange it was a licensed corridor operator for RLUSD in Dubai and Bahrain. Paribu didnt buy a brand. They bought regulatory reach. When you combine regulated jurisdictions under one roof you tighten the rails: fewer intermediaries cleaner compliance paths faster settlement windows larger liquidity buckets and a clearer route for RLUSD XRP corridors to scale This is what early-stage consolidation looks like in a new payments architecture. Before volume grows the industry shrinks to the"
X Link 2025-12-06T17:28Z 3931 followers, 3069 engagements
"Corridors are tightening. Paribu didnt buy CoinMENA for users they bought licenses. Regulated routes across Dubai Bahrain and Turkey under one operator sets the stage for real throughput. Before utility scales the industry consolidates. Rails first. Liquidity next. If you track corridors M&A and regional regulation you already know what comes after this. ๐ The bigger picture tied in"
X Link 2025-12-06T17:30Z 3909 followers, 2893 engagements
"2 words for everyone: RIPPLE PRIME ๐ The Ferrari in the Garage ๐ Where Ripple Prime Fits in This Shift Ripple Prime was built for EXACTLY this moment. Think of it as the institutional on-ramp that only matters once institutions are allowed to enter the digital-asset markets in size. Before Bitnomial + CFTC classification Ripple Prime was like a Ferrari in the garage: beautiful engineered but not allowed on the interstate. Now the interstate just opened. A CFTC-regulated XRP venue means: X Prime can route institutional flow to legal liquidity pools Compliance desks no longer have to say No."
X Link 2025-12-08T13:56Z 3932 followers, 5874 engagements
"The 21Shares XRP ETF just filed Amendment No. X and this one matters. When an ETF gets this close to launch the filings change: Final accounting sign-off Updated disclosures Custody confirmations Creation/redemption mechanics Continuous offering box checked These amendments arent confusion. Theyre finalization. BTC had this pattern. ETH had this pattern. Now XRP is showing the same smoke. Multiple agencies moved last week. Today the paperwork is catching up. This is what an asset looks like when its being slotted into the institutional rails: commodity treatment custodial readiness ETF"
X Link 2025-12-08T14:55Z 3938 followers, 52.5K engagements
"The funny thing is Ripple would never touch retail directly if they could avoid it. But they do need liquidity and Solana is one of the fastest ways to push RLUSD and XRP into the consumer economy without turning XRPL into a casino chain. Solanas problem is the opposite: huge app adoption almost zero corridor depth in regulated markets and no real compliant USD rail. XRPL gives them the ATM the plumbing and the bank layer plus an exit into commodity-status collateral. For institutional money that matters a lot. The optimal setup is simple: Solana: execution and DeFi XRPL: settlement Ripple:"
X Link 2025-12-08T20:06Z 3938 followers, 40.4K engagements
"@beyond_broke You rock. When someone asks a questionsmall or bigyou answer it. Even more when you interview someone you never cut them off talk over them you listen to LISTEN with humility. Glad YOU ended up being the guy. Thanks Jake"
X Link 2025-12-08T23:03Z 3932 followers, 11.3K engagements
"When exchange balances break below the price structure youre not looking at trader behavior anymore. Youre looking at liquidity migration assets leaving public books and getting absorbed into private rails. That only happens ahead of new market structure: index fund construction ETF basket formation futures collateral requirements bank custody pre-positioning OTC inventory build-outs Price is still showing the old regime. Supply is signaling the new one. This is the tell. ๐"
X Link 2025-12-10T04:30Z 3935 followers, 3634 engagements
"The filings arent random. Theyre a sequence. Bitwise opens the door to crypto index funds. Hashdex shows XRP sitting at XXX% weight. WisdomTree steps in with their own index. Truth Social rolls out a Blue Chip ETF that explicitly lists XRP. OCC clears banks for principal crypto transactions. MoonPay integrates Apple Pay on-ramps for XRP. All in the same window. And at the exact same moment Exchange balances collapse while price drifts sideways the classic disconnect you see when the asset gets pulled off public shelves and into institutional plumbing. This isnt hype. Its architecture. One by"
X Link 2025-12-10T04:32Z 3935 followers, 3457 engagements
"@GcIander27704 Liquidity inbound. RLUSD mounting. Several corridors are ready. Several need work The problem with corridors - theyre not as effective if the people (parties) on the other side of the world arent live. Doesnt really work so well"
X Link 2025-12-10T06:16Z 3930 followers, XX engagements
"The path well-traveled was never going to get this done. The path of least resistance never builds new rails. Pioneers Check. Lawsuit Check. Kicked out of SWIFTs conference Check. Began with the end in mind Absolutely. Then came the rest of it: The ETF denials. Autopen signatures. Biden. Gensler. Warren. A regulatory vacuum. Jurisdiction fights. Security vs. commodity theater. The fine. The headlines. The doubt. When has any of this ever been easy People underestimate what happens when the largest economy in the world finally decides its time to modernize its financial plumbing. They"
X Link 2025-12-10T07:01Z 3932 followers, XXX engagements
/creator/twitter::heythereRich