🚀 HUGE XRP NEWS TODAY! NEW RIPPLE ACQUISITION.

All right, welcome back. We have some breaking news for XRP. We're going to get straight into it today. By the end of this video, you are going to know why Ripple keeps spending hundreds of millions of dollars on purchasing certain companies in the crypto space to make strategic advances, because they're trying to take over the world. So let's get into it. Make sure you watch until the end, drop a like, comment, subscribe, Let me know if I should bring back the old animated intro, folks. Let me know. First things first, make sure you're following me on Twitter. Link is in the description. Also make sure you're following Megan on Twitter. She did a great video covering GPT-5 that launched today, conveniently on the same day as this XRP news. Also, if you want to join our Discord, $25 a month, greatest $25 you're ever going to spend. We're literally building a portfolio tracker for our VIPs. People are buying their dream cars. Obviously, we don't claim any income-related statements, but the proof is in the profits, bro. Join up. So let's get into this. Ripple. Oh my goodness, Ripple's strategic acquisitions. So this is going to cover— we're going to cover 2020 to 2025. Okay, Ripple is clearly building the future of digital payments. Why doesn't money move at the speed of an email? That's the main thing we're focused on here. And literally one of the main things in the crypto space and what we're gonna solve is payments across the world. Money is gonna flow at such a huge velocity and a huge speed that it's gonna change the earth, right? Literally. So here's the acquisition timeline, okay? We have MetaCo on May 17th, 2023. Then just a few months later, they're buying Fortress Trust. Then they bought Standard Custody. Then they bought Hidden Road, and then they've now purchased RAIL. So today, Brad Garlinghouse just announced on his Twitter and on the official Ripple website that they acquired RAIL for $200 million. They paid $200 million. This is the official announcement. Um, it is pretty short. If we go through this, you can see they've paid $200 million. This is— they are going to deliver— Ripple and RAIL will deliver the most comprehensive stablecoin payment solution currently available in the market. Okay, so this is focused on stablecoins. Now what we're going to cover with this slide presentation that I've made is basically what types of companies are they buying and why are they buying these specific companies. Like, what are these companies giving them that they need? Like, why did they need to buy these companies? Well, Why couldn't they just build what those companies have, right? So this is the announcement. Um, you know, it goes through some of Ripple's flexes here. Um, stablecoins are quickly becoming a cornerstone of modern finance, and with Rail, we are uniquely positioned to drive the next phase of innovation and adoption of stablecoins and blockchain in global payments. This is coming from Monica Long, who is the Ripple president currently. Okay, here is why, or here's what they're going to do together. So we have stablecoin on and off ramps. What does that mean? That means getting dollars into stablecoins and then stablecoins back into dollars. That's on and off ramp. Okay, crypto exists in its own little world and you have to on and off ramp fiat dollars into it. Okay, um, they're going to try to do this without requiring customers to hold crypto on their balance sheets. You know, kind of goes into why XRP exists too. Um, third-party and treasury payments offer flexibility to customers, enabling them to manage multiple payment types. Um, they're getting more liquidity here, premium digital asset liquidity for their stablecoin, RLUSD. XRP and others. Virtual account and collections, simple integration, always-on infrastructure, enterprise-grade compliance, um, 60+ licenses. I mean, why aren't— why isn't more people talking about this? Like, why is the banking— anyone who's in banking, they all should be talking about this. This is super crazy. Over the— listen to this— over the last 4 years, Rail has built the fastest way to settle business payments internationally using stablecoins. And in 2025, RAIL is forecasted to process over 10% of the global $36 billion stablecoin business-to-business payments. Okay, this isn't even like consumer stablecoin usage, right? Like you and me. This is businesses to businesses using stablecoins, right? And our businesses like Sanji, and Patience and Gold Squad, we use stablecoin payments too because they're so fast. You don't have to wait a week for a wire transfer, right? Super crazy. Rail, if you're wondering what it is, is a payment infrastructure platform that compliantly connects the best of fiat and stablecoin technologies, all via a single API. Super crazy. Rail enables fintech payments providers, neobanks, enterprise orgs and more to offer payment solutions for their operations and their customers. Everything from virtual IBANs and named accounts to USD rails. They have more than 12 banking partners. And if we look at some of this, like, people are highlighting— Wrath of Kahneman is highlighting that they just purchased 10% of the global stablecoin payment flow. Pretty crazy for RLUSD. Right? If RAIL is processing 10% of the global stablecoin payment flow, that's B2B. We just read that, right? This is a little bit misleading. It's the B2B side, but still global. That is insane. Um, and then we also have VET right here pointing out that the new Ripple acquisition RAIL supports SEPA, Fedwire, ACH, and SWIFT. Okay. Fedwire just went live with ISO 20022 a few weeks ago, um, and a pair of XRP and USD could make the— make use of these supported payment rails. So super crazy acquisition. Um, let's keep going down the slide right here. So they— these are the 5 they've acquired since 2023, right? So right here, their focus areas: cryptocurrency custody, brokerage services, regulatory compliance, um, and stablecoin payment solutions. So MetaCo deal was apparently valued at $250 million, based in Switzerland, and this was a custody one. So what are the strategic benefits that they're trying to get? Advanced custody, uh, advanced custody technology, right? Tokenization infrastructure, internal expansion, beyond the US, um, an enterprise client base. What you have to understand and what you'll see as a common theme, Ripple is buying clients as well. These other companies have clients that Ripple wants and they're buying them. Pretty crazy. Now Fortress Trust, let's go over this one. Undisclosed amount. They're a crypto infrastructure provider. These guys were Switzerland. Fortress Trust was Nevada. Okay, um, they expanded their compliance features for institutional use, enhanced trust and security in the XRP ecosystem. They are rapidly accumulating U.S. regulatory approvals, and they strengthened their position in the enterprise crypto market. Now look at this right here. You see that they have a regulatory license for digital oper— digital asset operations in Nevada. So they got the Nevada Trust Charter, um, compliance tech, asset management tech, more settlement services. Um, this is a really, really good one here. Then Standard Custody, right, is another one that is focused on custody, um, and institutional custody. You can see the chart is only going to grow right there. Um, right here, New York Limited Purpose Trust charter, uh, charter regulated digital asset custody platform. Super strategic benefits. Then they had Hidden Road, which was valued at $1.25 billion. Um, absolutely insane. These all have like these licenses too, right? They have certain licenses that Ripple can't get or is hard to get. So they'd rather buy it. Um, I just am seeing now that this is a Canadian platform. I did not know that. As you know, Megan and I are from Canada. Um, pretty crazy. So all of the strategic benefits and implications right here, man, they are building a beast of a company, right? This is what happens when you get in that power position. You start buying up everyone under you and you become the major, major leader right here. They've got the charters. This one got the New York charter, and they have global prime brokerage licenses. That's through Hidden Road. They're getting talent. They're getting, you know, all the workers have to now work for Ripple. Basically, all the clients come with it. It's absolutely insane. So this is a big day. I wanted to finish off with this, uh, Great tweet from Neats Bucks. Great account. If you guys don't follow Neats Bucks, super good XRP account. Listen to this. They say that Ripple dumps their XRP on retail. Dumping is an exit scam term, okay? So we know this. We've seen Ripple executives and Ripple itself sell XRP on your head. However, Ripple actually goes and buys companies with the money they made from those sales, right? So they have acquired MetaCo, Hidden Road, all of the ones, um, all of the companies that we see in my PowerPoint slide right here. MetaCo, Fortress Trust, Standard Custody, Hidden Road, and Rail. This is multiple billions of dollars worth of company acquisitions. And keeping dumping if it means strategically bringing massive utility to XRP. Best treasury steward in crypto. I'm gonna give that a repost right there, folks. That's one of the greatest XRP tweets I've ever seen. They are the best treasury steward. They are not exit scammers because they're sitting there on multiple billions of dollars, but they're actually using it to continue growing the business. You can say all you want about justification. It's just the truth. Appreciate you all for watching. Drop a subscribe, drop a like, join the Discord if you want. All the links are in the description. And if you're watching still, right, 11 minutes in, shout out to you. Whoa, what, bro? This camera moves with me. That's crazy. Okay. Bro, this thing's a robot. Robots are taking over the world. GPT-5 just launched. Go watch Megan's video about GPT-5. Appreciate all of you. Love every single one of you. Goodbye.