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Speaker 1: and that is the Supreme Court has ruled on Donald
Speaker 1: Trump's global tariffs, ruling them unlawful. So there's still a
Speaker 1: lot to be figured out here because Trump is looking
Speaker 1: to do something else with the tariffs. But this ruling
Speaker 1: is one of the things we've been tracking because it
Speaker 1: will have a big impact on the markets. Right last
Speaker 1: year when the announcement came, we saw the markets crash
Speaker 1: big time. Right. If you go look at the charts,
Speaker 1: it's a big, big drop, right, And that was certainly
Speaker 1: one of the headwinds the markets faced last year and
Speaker 1: even crypto. So with this rule of it being unlawed, well,
Speaker 1: we're gonna have to let the dust settle it to
Speaker 1: see how the markets react. Right now, they're not reacting
Speaker 1: negatively or positively. It's just business as usual, almost as
Speaker 1: if nothing happened. So the S and P five hundred,
Speaker 1: Sure it's up a little bit, but no major pump.
Speaker 1: Gold up a little bit, but no major pump. Bitcoin
Speaker 1: just chopping sideways. So we're gonna really have to wait
Speaker 1: till next week to see how this all pans out,
Speaker 1: and I think more for more details to come in
Speaker 1: and then markets will react accordingly. Now with all politics inside,
Speaker 1: I do believe this is positive for the markets because
Speaker 1: it was one of the major headwinds last year, and
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of confusion. It got a lot
Speaker 1: of the masses focused on it and many saying, hey,
Speaker 1: I'm getting taxed my products and all these things are higher,
Speaker 1: right because the inflation costs are being pushed into consumer
Speaker 1: So with this out of the way, this set makes
Speaker 1: sentiment better in the economy and for people to invest
Speaker 1: and all these things. I'm not sure, right, I'm just
Speaker 1: sharing some of the market principles and things I've seen historically.
Speaker 1: So again we're gonna have to let the dust settle here,
Speaker 1: and maybe next week we're going to start to see
Speaker 1: how the markets move. But something to think about as
Speaker 1: well is could this already be priced in. Could the
Speaker 1: announcement already be pricing. I don't know, right, So again
Speaker 1: we're gonna have to wait and see, but definitely something
Speaker 1: we're gonna have to keep an eye on as we
Speaker 1: head into next week and the week after. Now, folks,
Speaker 1: huge XRP ledger adoption news. We had some big news
Speaker 1: yesterday which I reported on where the XRP ledger was
Speaker 1: being used by associate Jeronarale as well as Soil for tokenization. Well,
Speaker 1: look at this. Dubai takes the next step to make
Speaker 1: real estate flips instant in a sixteen billion dollar tokenization plan.
Speaker 1: So it's the Dubai Land Department and Control ALT which
Speaker 1: are working on this real estate tokenization project. Folks. We've
Speaker 1: talked a lot about the tokenization of different assets, right,
Speaker 1: and it's going to be on multiple chains. It's going
Speaker 1: to happen across the globe clearly, right, Dubai is doing
Speaker 1: some big things here, so give it to details. The
Speaker 1: Dubai Land Department DLD and tokenization firm Control ALT unveiled
Speaker 1: a secondary market for real estate back tokens, enabling the
Speaker 1: resale of five million dollars in fractional property ownership in
Speaker 1: an announcement on Friday, roughly seven point eight million tokens
Speaker 1: tied to ten Dubai properties are now eligible for trading
Speaker 1: within a controlled market environment. Transactions will take place on
Speaker 1: a regulated distribution platform, recorded on the XRP ledger blockchain,
Speaker 1: and secured by Ripple custody. This is massive, folks. Now
Speaker 1: a few updates. We continue to see the surge of
Speaker 1: real world asset tokenization, and it's not just equities or
Speaker 1: money market funds. It's now going to real estate, gold
Speaker 1: and other assets. Second, huge adoption for the XRP Ledger.
Speaker 1: This is a big vote of confidence that you have
Speaker 1: the Dubai property folks here putting real estate on the
Speaker 1: XRP Ledger, and you're also using Ripple custody. So incredible stuff.
Speaker 1: The haters are punching air right now. Remember all the
Speaker 1: people would say no one will ever use the XRP ledger,
Speaker 1: and it's the argument I gave yesterday, like, yeah, of
Speaker 1: course no one was using it during the Ripple lawsuit
Speaker 1: of course, right, So the people were going around spreading food.
Speaker 1: Even some of the big hedge fund guys who were
Speaker 1: you know, shorting XRP, but they were holding like eth
Speaker 1: and so forth. They go around saying, I don't know
Speaker 1: why people are bullish on this platform and it's token,
Speaker 1: nobody's using it like, and they wouldn't give the context
Speaker 1: of yeah, there's a lawsuit against the company that's tied
Speaker 1: to it. Right, So now that that's gone, we are
Speaker 1: seeing incredible adoption. And here's an example. If you go
Speaker 1: to r WA dot xyz, you will see the XRP
Speaker 1: ledger is climbing the ranks. Here. It's currently number nine
Speaker 1: on the RWA league table, so showing the total amount
Speaker 1: of different toganization projects as well as the total of value.
Speaker 1: So the XRP ledger is rising, guys, and that is
Speaker 1: what you want to see as an XRP holder. Now
Speaker 1: I'm not only holding the XRP token, I hold eth
Speaker 1: the whole Solana big onins. I'm diversified. But I just
Speaker 1: want to call out the floodsters who have been going
Speaker 1: around with their campaign, you know, trying to say nobody's
Speaker 1: using this platform. But the data again, go to the facts,
Speaker 1: and the data shows adoption has been surgeon since the
Speaker 1: Ripple lawsuit ended. And again you go to RWA dot
Speaker 1: xyz and you see the surgeon tokenize assets on the
Speaker 1: XRP ledger. Now Ashish Burla, who used to work at Ripple,
Speaker 1: and he's now the CEO of ever North, which is
Speaker 1: an XRP treasury company. He shared some great updates regarding
Speaker 1: this data, saying last week the XRP ledger overtook Solana
Speaker 1: in real world asset tokenization value the leaderboard. Change signals
Speaker 1: that institutional blockchain adoption is accelerating on the XRPL. Here's
Speaker 1: why it matters and what else is to track? So
Speaker 1: he says RWAs are where crypto meets traditional finance, tokenize funds,
Speaker 1: credit treasuries and stable coin instruments. When RWA activity grows
Speaker 1: on a chain, it means tuians are building there. The
Speaker 1: XRP ledger is seeing meaningful traction from institutions that value guardrails,
Speaker 1: mirroring existing market infrastructure. He goes on to talk about
Speaker 1: our l USD and so forth, but I just want
Speaker 1: to share, you know, what he had to say there. So, guys,
Speaker 1: we've often talked about Metcalf's law, and you know, I've
Speaker 1: given the example of etherorem and the amount of building right,
Speaker 1: whether it be NFTs, DEFID, crypto kitties whatever it is.
Speaker 1: The point is you have more people building on the blockchain,
Speaker 1: you have network effects Metcalfs law, right, so the value
Speaker 1: of that network becomes more valuable, and so does its
Speaker 1: native token. So this is why I'm bulsh on XRPRET
Speaker 1: long term. Obviously, this previous cycle, we got a lot
Speaker 1: of ETFs that will launched. Plus you got this treasury company,
Speaker 1: and there's been a huge demand for XRP. Obviously we
Speaker 1: did not get the all season we were expecting, but
Speaker 1: I believe once the crypto Market Structure bill is passed,
Speaker 1: we're going to see trillions coming to this asset class,
Speaker 1: and a big part of that trillions pie so to speak,
Speaker 1: we'll go to xr in addition to other assets. Right,
Speaker 1: We're not XRP maxis here. We are looking for utility,
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Speaker 1: we were just talking about tokenization. Here's another example. BNP
Speaker 1: parabs taps Ethereum for new money market fund tokenization pilot.
Speaker 1: BNP parabus is huge in Spain and that market in
Speaker 1: that region, so this is incredible news. Guys. We're seeing
Speaker 1: the biggest of the biggest institutions tokenizing on blockchains. And
Speaker 1: you know, they often start with one chain, whether it
Speaker 1: be Theorem, and then they branch out because it's going
Speaker 1: to be a multi chain world. But Ethereum continues to
Speaker 1: get adoption and that's why I hold it in my portfolio.
Speaker 1: So BNP parabus asset management is tapping etherorem for a
Speaker 1: new blockchain pilot, this time issuing a tokenized share class
Speaker 1: of a French domicile money market fund. The tokenized shares
Speaker 1: issued on chain using BNP parabus asset found ETM platform
Speaker 1: will offer gated access via a permissioned access model on Etheroreum,
Speaker 1: whereby holdings and transfers are restricted to eligible and authorized
Speaker 1: participants in line with applicable regulatory requirements. According to the announcement,
Speaker 1: here's a quote, the initiative was conducted as a one off,
Speaker 1: limited intra group experiment, enabling BNP parabs to test new
Speaker 1: end to end processes from issuance and transfer agency to
Speaker 1: tokenization and public blockchain connectivity within a controlled and regulated framework.
Speaker 1: The company wrote, So, guys, you can see some of
Speaker 1: these companies are just dipping your toes. They're testing, right,
Speaker 1: but eventually they're going to go from proof of concept
Speaker 1: and testing to production. And we've seen black Rock already
Speaker 1: do that, Frankel, Templeton and others. So somebody's institutions is
Speaker 1: going to take some time for them to warm up.
Speaker 1: But of course the end goal, as we've been talking
Speaker 1: about where the puck is heading, is all capital markets, economies,
Speaker 1: and governments running on blockchain rails. So again you're seeing
Speaker 1: the biggest names and the biggest institutions are participating. And
Speaker 1: look at where they're building. Guys the Theorem, Blockchain, Solana, XRP,
Speaker 1: and many others. So very bullish news. Now this is interesting.
Speaker 1: Pro Share stable Coin ready ETF generates record seventeen billion
Speaker 1: dollars in day one trading volume. So crypto related ETFs
Speaker 1: continue to grow. So a Genius Act inspired money market
Speaker 1: exchange traded fund has set a new record for first
Speaker 1: day trading volume. The pro SHARE's Genius Money Market ETF
Speaker 1: generated seventeen billion dollars on Thursday. IQMM is structured to
Speaker 1: hold assets that meet the legal reserve requirements for dollar
Speaker 1: back stable coins in the US. The fund aligns with
Speaker 1: the Genius Act signed into law last July, which mandates
Speaker 1: that stable coin issuers maintained one to one backing with safe,
Speaker 1: highly liquid assets such as US Treasury bills. Here's a
Speaker 1: quote that is multitudes beyond the all time record for
Speaker 1: an e TF. Bloomberg senior ETF analyst Eric Balachin has
Speaker 1: said Friday on X, I was wrong about this ETF.
Speaker 1: I just figured it would be a niche at best,
Speaker 1: as people would use b I L or s HV
Speaker 1: as money market subs. So I don't know those other products,
Speaker 1: but he gave the ticker symbols, right, so b I
Speaker 1: L and s HV. But you can see that people
Speaker 1: definitely would want to get access to this because the
Speaker 1: stapqoin market is booming and it's only going to get larger.
Speaker 1: Banks and all these other folks are going to launch
Speaker 1: your own stable coins and tether or just launch your
Speaker 1: new one in the United States. So uh, we're seeing
Speaker 1: major institutions, you know, launching stable coins. So this is
Speaker 1: very bullish and great to see. And this is a
Speaker 1: testament that people want access to this asset class in
Speaker 1: different ways. Right, So even if it's stable coins, tokenization
Speaker 1: companies building the picks and shovels, the infrastructure of the market,
Speaker 1: and obviously the crypto assets themselves, right, So, really really
Speaker 1: great stuff here. So folks, that's the news. Let me
Speaker 1: know what you're thinking. Some very big news items here,
Speaker 1: and also what do you guys think about the tariff
Speaker 1: ruling and how that may impact the markets? Right? You know,
Speaker 1: Big coin is setting up for a relief rally, whether
Speaker 1: that happens or we go test some lows first, We're
Speaker 1: gonna have to wait and see. No one has a
Speaker 1: crystal ball. But you know, market's done go in one
Speaker 1: direction forever. I know it feels very verish, it's boring,
Speaker 1: but that is where often the market decides to go
Speaker 1: to the opposite direction when you have extreme fear and
Speaker 1: people have given up, right, So let's be patient and
Speaker 1: see what them next week brings us. Heads up, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be traveling this weekend into early next week. I'll
Speaker 1: be at the Las Vegas Money Show, where I'll be
Speaker 1: talking about cryptos, stable coins and and all these things.
Speaker 1: So if you're gonna be attending, you know, we'll love
Speaker 1: to meet up with some of you guys at that event.
Speaker 1: But I will still be posting some contents. I'll be
Speaker 1: doing some content from there and I will give you
Speaker 1: guys the latest updates. Folks, Thank you for tuning in.
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