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Jeff
Welcome to on the Chain. This is Jeff here with co host Chip. What is going on? Chip, what's going on? Everybody out there in the YouTube world, in the on the Chain world, guys know who you are. It's gotta pop up here that my ex isn't streaming. I'll have to fix that after. But hey, XRP just went multi chain. Guys are reading all the news about that. A lot of cool things that are popping up. But if you think that's just another crypto update, you're completely missing what's actually happening. Because this isn't about one chain. No, it isn't. It's not even about crypto. This is about a shift in how value moves across the entire ecosystem. And once you connect that to institutions, man, liquidity. And what's happening globally, Chip, this gets a lot bigger.
Chip
Yeah. When you start stacking, everything that's happening right now mean XRP expanded beyond its own ecosystem. Huge institutional capital starting to move in. Then you got global pressure building across the financial system. It's not random, Jeff. This is what we call alignment. Let's break it down. Welcome to on the Chain.
Jeff
All right, so let's get into this Chip because this shift that we're talking about, it's already starting to show up. Today we're going to break it down. What's actually happening here, why this isn't just another crypto headline. And now first XRP just want multi chain and what that unlocks, especially with it now moving into ecosystems like Solana. I think that was huge news and that shocked a lot of people. Then we're going to get into institutional flows because the capital is starting to move. Then that. And that really changes the entire dynamic. From there, we'll touch on what's happening on the XRPL itself because and this is where it all starts moving beyond payments and into real infrastructure. Then we'll zoom out because what's happening globally and the geopolitics and we got to get into that tons of energy in geopolitics and Chip, it's all directly tied to how liquidity is going to move. And it all impacts you and me 100%.
Chip
And Jeff, we're rocking our ripple hats from fresh from swell of November of last year. They had two options. You could get a hat or like some Candies. I'm like, well, if I eat the Candies, they're gone. But I had, oh, the hat I can wear forever maybe. So jumping right into it, Jeff, what you teased in the open here. So we got Solana, we've been hearing them teasing it about XRP589 and seeing that for a few days. And there it is. Solana official account at Solana on X. Breaking XRP is live on Solana. Who would have thunk it? Jeff Ripple X said, you know wxrp which is wrapped XRP now live on Solana enabled by Hex Trust. You'll get the little guys to follow regulated institutional digital asset market services. What Hex Trust is custody staking for builders, investors and service providers. And the leader of the digital asset solutions and also layer 0 core which is better money technology, growing demand for XRP driving liquidity. You mentioned it's all about liquidity, Jeff. Cross chain opening new paths across ecosystems and expanding the overall market. Mr. Brad Garlinghouse chimed in. Jeff, why don't you take Garlinghouse? What did Garlinghouse say about this? What's his thoughts?
Jeff
What are Garlinghouse's thoughts? Well, he said demand for XRP keeps growing. More access, more ecosystems and more utility. That's what it's all about. Chip right there.
Chip
You know what I want to add to that M.O. money is what I want. More value. More money is what I want to add to that. Because I think that it's interesting that you know, Solana's been a pretty friendly ecosystem overall. I think, you know, if you, if you think about what they've, what they posted in the past, but also too just putting XRP over there too, it makes a lot, it makes a lot of sense. And this is where, where we talked about and kind of like teased in the open with which is this cross chain stuff is really important. It makes a lot of sense. And when you think about RL USD, did they go on the XRPL first? No, they went on Ethereum. Why? Because that's where the people are. That's where the usage is. That's where the majority of it is. But the whole rollout was designed to be cross chain, right? 100% right.
Jeff
That's, that's exactly. Well if you look at the actual, you know, you get into the, the tech of the XRPL and you see how that infrastructure was built out really to facilitate multi chain, especially flow of, of monies. So this, this is like a natural step. I, I was really. And we actually talked about it on the last show when it was like, hey, what exactly is Solana doing? Why is Solana talking about xrp? Well, here you go. You know, and this is when we move out of this silo mentality and we move into the infrastructure, mainstream adoption, institutional adoption phase, because you can't continue to function in silo mechanisms any longer. It's all about bringing it together. It's taking advantage of the technology that each one offers. And that's what we're beginning to see. You know, plus, if you want to really look beyond just the crypto asset, but the communities themselves have been relatively isolating. You know, so you had the blockchain Maxis, then he had the Ethereum foundation, and then you have the XRP Maxis. And there's quite a few XRP Maxis out there that believe that it's all about xrp, nothing else. And it has to be speculative. And we gotta. Now, now we're starting to see, you know, we're growing up in the space. We're moving from infancy beyond the toddler stage. And from this point, Chip, we're just talking about how fast AI is growing. I think we're going to see, you know, some faster growth in this space too.
Chip
AI agents is the blockchain space is perfect. Look, we got here Bird Dogs in Bird Dog. Wow, it's been, Gosh, talk about OG. My gosh, back to 2017, as far as I remember. Board Dog was nine years. Good to see you, Bird Dog. Good to see you indeed. I still love all the good mornings. People checking in. Good morning, Joe, buddy. There he is, working. Sunny, rainy, sunny and rainy. Caribbean. That's how it is down in the south as it rains. And you think, oh, my God, my weekend's ruined. And then 40 minutes later it's sunny and you forgot it rained. That's how it works. Pittsburgh PA in the house, Jeff. Look at. I fixed it right there. Now read that and tell me what you. That's on. This is Brad Gelling's house.
Jeff
What it's supposed to say, more utility, more money, more value, big price increase coming.
Chip
Yeah, I hacked it.
Jeff
Yeah, I don't think you said that last part.
Chip
No, he didn't say that last part. I hacked that last part. But it's fun. It's fun to look at. Big price incoming. It should be question mark. Big price incoming. But no, that's. That's not what he said. That was. Let me rephrase.
Jeff
There we go.
Chip
Yeah, that's what he really said. So I. I couldn't have. You have a little fun with that kind of stuff. And then Panos panels liked it, too. Panel said, more liquidity, more demand, more opportunities for xrp. XRP holders, futures, multi chain. We've been saying for years, Jeff, XRP will be everywhere. This is the whole point. It will be everywhere. And if you can put, if you can wrap it and put on Solana, you can pretty much wrap and put it anywhere. But anyway, fantastic, right? This ripple said the XRP ETFs. The institutional era is now for years legal uncertainty, by the way still going on has kept institutional capital away from xrp. Regulatory clarity arrived. Futures markets launched. The path to institutional access opened. What follows is a 1.5 billion in ETF inflows, 0,90 net outflows in a month and 1 and Wall street validation. What comes next? And this is a really big. Jeff, because if you think about the other ETFs, you had Bitcoin, right? In, out, in, out, fluctuation in price. You had Ethereum ETFs in, out, in, out, right? People dumping, people coming in. The thing about, I think that one thing that shocked Everybody is the ETFs for XRP have been steady. People are getting in, you know, and this is like if you're buying an etf, maybe you don't have access to XRP yourself. Maybe you're getting in an ETF because part of your 401k, maybe it's just an investment strategy. But if you're getting in on it, you're not, you're, you're, you're holding it. You're not up and down and dumping. It's amazing the inflows versus the outflows compared to the other ones. Why do you think that is, Jeff? Why do you think that XRP has been so stable, probably by a new crop of investors?
Jeff
Yeah, I think that has a lot to do with it, you know, that we're, and we're going to start, you know, seeing that definitely spike up as more and more kind of move to the space. But I don't think it's coming direct to xrp. I think it's coming to xrp, you know, via. Well, we, you talk about the, the flow in the ETFs, but I, I believe that, you know, the attention to the ETF is coming through attention in the crypto asset ETFs kind of in general, starting with blockchain. That's the attention grabber. And now as there's some, there was at least some positivity. We're, we're seeing steady growth with the, with the BTC ETFs and that's what opened the door over to, to XRP ETFs. And, and this is, this is going to be, it's going to get a Lot larger. I think we, we're just again, just beginning to scratch the surface with it. Don't think the XRP ETFs have had the same momentum or movement that the Bitcoin ETFs had in the same period of time. So we need, there has to be more inflow, more focus on it. But I, well, you know, we're going to see more development, is going to bring more attention to the etf. We got to have more growth in it. That's the cross chain, the multi chain, multi chains, because you also have Solana ETFs. So now what we're gonna have to see is somehow more Bitcoin, XRP crossover focus. Then we'll see more positivity there.
Chip
It'll be good, will be everywhere. But Steve Willett says the only place where XRP isn't going to be is Gensler's Christmas list. That is true. But it's funny, we were talking about ETFs, Jeff. Like, ETFs are coming, they're coming, they're coming. Then, oh, they're delayed. Oh, they're coming, they're coming. It was like, we didn't think we'd ever see them. And then when they came, it kind of shocked everybody, especially month one Ripple put a blog post up on this about from courtroom to trading floor to XRP ETF story doesn't begin with a filing. It begins with a regulatory clarity. And they're saying, mid 25, hopefully this will be put to. You know, Trump posted about this, like, let's get this done. Let's not have the banks holding this hostage. Let's let people make money the way people can make money. Not, not really bar them from. It's the whole thing, a shakedown of an industry. Who doesn't. They're worried about outflows. Talk about outflows. They're worried about outflows. Well, build a better product. You build something, have some innovation. Your innovation can't be like, we're going to hold your money from Friday to Monday so that over the weekend on these billion dollars that we're holding of everybody collectively, we're going to make, you know, four and a half percent on your money. That can't be your winning formula. Oh, you, you're going to get a quarter percent interest. Oh, thank you, generous souls. You know, I mean, where's the fun and all that, Jeff? It's a little bit insanely, you know, geared towards and all towards banks. I'm like, you know what? Compete in the world. This is Capitalism. If you can't build a better product, if you can't roll out innovation and somebody rolls out a seven and a half quarter yield, well, yeah, where do you think people are going to go? But to sit put legislation that you can't make money on stable coins that cost people, kind of crazy legislation is this. You're gonna put a shakedown and say you can't do this. And who's holding it hostage? Well, it's our friends the Democrats as always. They're always, they're always against the people. That's how they, they sell their people out when it comes to illegals. They bring them in here, they want the voters and this is how it happens. But the CME listed XRP futures was launched in May of 2000. 2025 became the fastest ever CME crypto futures contract to reach 1 billion in open interest. A milestone that understood the depth of institutional appetite for XRP exposure. By November, the preparation crystallized into a wave of spot ETFs that launched that would fundamentally expand how institutions access the the asset or assess the asset result. Canary Capital's XRPC debuted on NASDAQ in November 13, went on to be the most successful ETF launch of 2025. First day trading volume across any asset, not just crypto. Bitwise's XRP ETF followed on November 20th. Then came Grayscale's GXRP on the New York stock exchange arca November 24th. Franklin Templeton's XRPZ and 21 shares toxr followed in short order by Rex Ospreys XPR offering the earliest spot exposure. That's been done so. And then they go on to talk about the numbers, you know, with five spot ETFs trading in the US over 769 million XRP tokens locked across their combined custody arrangements. The XRP launch surprised a lot of people despite, despite a lot of challenging overall crypto market. That's the other thing too is the down crypto market. We saw bitcoin falling, we saw the whole market in red for a long time. And yet this persisted, right? JP Morgan says that the XRP ETS may attract between 4 to 8 billion dollars the first year of inflows. Goldman Sachs grayscale on Wall street give it validation. So it's a pretty, it's a pretty, it was, that was probably the big story of last year was the, the XRP ETFs.
Jeff
That's it.
Chip
It's amazing. It's amazing.
Jeff
What's the big story?
Chip
Look at this. I Wanted to put this up. What did I see in here? I saw a comment in here. No. Did I see it? No, maybe not. This is true though. Without Gary Gensler, I would not have had those four summers to buy XRP cooked ass. Gary is my homie, says Joe. Buddy, there you go. He's my homie, he's my home.
Jeff
Took time to, to percolate and develop. Think about without, without the lawsuit, how much focus, attention where there have been and you know, building different communities, you know, would, you know, here you see, you know, there was some momentum. A lot of people came together. We saw what was possible, you know, with John Deaton bringing that intervention and seeing, you know, 78, 80, 000 people coming together to, to intervene against the SEC. That hasn't really been done before. So in the absence of a lawsuit, that never would have happened. If that never happened, John Deaton wouldn't have had a political career, you know, in the direction that he's running for Senate a second time. You know, he. There would have been lesser involved people within the community that stepped up to make a difference within the community. Not saying, you know, who knows what the direction would have been, you know, would we have had this attention and focus? Would, you know, would there have been as much even growth in mainstream in, on the main street if there hadn't been attention over the lawsuit? Because think about what that did, you know, from that perspective, it kind of highlighted, underscored that hey, we need to do something with legislation when it comes to crypto asset. Because before the lawsuit it was falling on deaf ears. Nobody in Congress was talking about it. You have a massive lawsuit against the SEC or with the SEC against a major company, all of a sudden everybody has to focus on it. It's a major topic. So I think we were right in the beginning though, Chip, when we said this is probably going to end up being the path to clarity over XRP and it's going to end up being a net positive.
Chip
Yeah, we said that at the time when it was filed that we might want to send chocolates to the chair because it may have done the ecosystem a big favor. And neither knew you or nor I did thought it would drag on for almost three years, three plus years, whatever. I mean, we never thought it would be that long. But it did drag on for a long time. It did take all this institutional stuff. But Ripple was on the sidelines, scheming, thinking about their acquisitions. And all of a sudden at that thing, a clarity boom. Six months later, he started seeing these acquisitions Lining up to be one of the most powerful financial services fintech companies of all time. You know they got a 50 billion of value, you know valuation now that'll be 100 billion before you blink an eye ever north. Go ahead.
Jeff
Look at that. That's coming from Sammy Man Bogner Regis UK first live. I've caught. Look at that. Welcome. Glad you're here with us. By the way your historic videos don't show up on YouTube. I've gone in to find one I've missed and only see ones about a year back.
Chip
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Jeff
the bell again on the chain. Maybe they're on on on the chain. This is on the chain live. We did have another channel out there and we probably have to end the confusion because we're putting short clips over on that one. But the live on the chain live which is where you're at right now, which is good. But we are checking out the algorithm too.
Chip
So yeah it's starting to pick up again. It's good thanks to Jeff's efforts and analyzing and studying. But Evernorth is put out this nice little post over here. New documentation drop for the XLS100 smart escrows on the XRP ledger. If you've been watching XRP evolve beyond payments this is worth paying attention to. So these smart escrows programic escrow on XRPL is looking more likely. This is good because you need programming. It needs to be programmable 100 so two applications can lock funds and then have them release automatically when an Oracle confirms confirmation is met. You know, very much like a smart contract, right. Reducing reliance on the manual sign offs. So this is big. So you can certainly set these up at scale and you don't have to have that manual sign off that you it'll automatically, you know go. And then you got a few use cases that start to make more sense. You got cross border payments that settle only when a price Oracle confirms an agreed FX rate. Then you got a lending protocol where collaterals released program programmatically Once the payment is verified on chain does a verification boom token unlock tied to a live data feed revenue target hits funds move again. This is a big sort of this is going to take the bottleneck out of escrows. And then what makes it different from traditional escrow is both sides can be applications, not necessarily people. So the Oracle is a data source. The escrow logic reads natively versus a law firm or a title company that manually Decides so you're kind of taking that human component out of it. This is where the XRP ledger starts looking less like payments rail and more like programmable settlement infrastructure. It's like moving money, enforcing the conditions around it at a protocol level. Jeff, this is huge. Really, quite honestly, this nice development.
Jeff
I like it. Yeah, I like it. I like to see these types of changes, you know, this types of.
Chip
Yeah, especially when you, you're removing bottlenecks and you're solving an actual problem. Right. And you know, you have, you have oracles versus actual people out there. Wendy O, who's used to be, she used to be primarily covering eth, right. But Ethereum, she's now, she's very, very involved in the, in the XRP community. She does a lot of stuff. She's been very friendly. She does great work too. I, I enjoy her podcast. I, I usually learn about a lot of stuff because lately I spend. Jeff. I mean, what Anthropic's been shipping lately has blown my mind. What companies would release in a year. Anthropic released in a day, 24 hours. They really shipped six new things that are all mind blowing. And I'm like, I don't know how AI is just changing the speed at which company. You know, Anthropic uses AI to do their coding, so they use it to do their building. And you know, Jeff, and you and I have been building stuff as well, and we are reviving an old project of ours from the, the annals of history and we are reviving that project and we're building it. So there you go. Talk about builders on the xrpl. You're looking at them right here because we're solving a real problem and we're targeting a real market and that's. It's time to get out from under behind here talking about it and start doing it. Jeff.
Jeff
We're gonna do it. Gonna be done.
Chip
XRP is AI for finance. There you go. And also too, I got another thing that I'm working on as well, which is, which has to do with an agentic AI agent. And because what's going to happen is you're not. The blockchain is so perfectly set up for AI, especially agentic. Agentic, just meaning that it can do things on your behalf. It can go in and buy stuff, it can go ahead and move stuff. It can go, you can set rules around it and say, like, hey, if this happens, you don't have to be paying attention and it can go do stuff. Right? So this is going to be the Thing and agents talking to agents, agents being able to check into certain locales to see what's going on. You're going to have AI agents will be this extension of you, and you'll all be programmable and it'll be your better half because you're not waking up at 3m when the price takes a dip or something. Something happens or you need something to happen. That's where it's all going. And I think it's a huge development and I think that the people that are there first are going to really sort of win. So there's our first part of it. And I think it's time, Jeff, to transition to our geopolitical stuff. And I saw we've got some. I saw we. I saw we got Dazzle Ford in here. Afternoon from the uk. Much respect. We're about to go. We're about to cover some UK news, man. And, you know, I have so many friends in the UK that are not happy right now, Jeff, that are just. And I really want them to win.
Jeff
How can they be happy over there?
Chip
I really want them to win big because they're great people, man. And it's just. It breaks my heart. I've been over there so many times. I love, you know, people. A lot of people don't like, you know, English food. I happen to love it. I love traditional British breakfast. I love, you know, pub grub, as they call it. I love it, man. I. I love. I love the whole culture. I love everything about. I love the beers. I, you know, I mean, where do you. Where do you, you know, I love going up to Scotland. I love drinking, you know, of course, a big scotch whiskey drinker. I love. Of course, Jeff, you love Irish whiskey. Jameson. I mean, Jameson and gingers. It is clown world. It is clown world. But I hope and I do feel that I do see a lot of positive changes. And I see leader. Leaders emerge. Not Starmer, but I see leaders emerge.
Jeff
But I wanted to start getting rid of these guys.
Chip
I wanted to touch on this, Jeff. Yesterday was the most insane single day in American foreign policy in a generation, and people missed half it. So Iran agreed to suspend its entire nuclear program indefinitely. Of course, they say that behind bars, but then the other channels, they preach, death to America. We haven't done anything. And then the feckless lefty communist leaders of Europe say, oh, I don't think that's really happening. Hey, sit down. Sit your ass down. Okay? Because you don't have a seat at the table. Iran agreed to never close the Strait of Hormuz again. Well, guess what? There were gunshots going off this, this morning, well, our morning, but gunshots today. So you can see that they never trust them. And this is what Trump wants to show. He wants to show that they're not trusting. He wants to know he's put one deal in place they violated. Put another deal in place and violated. So what do you think's coming next? They're like, oh, Trump is, he didn't win anything. Well, don't mess with the United States. That's all I have to say to you, don't mess with Trump because Trump is the master negotiator and Trump always wins. $0 changed hands. There were no frozen funds, Jeff. There were no pallets of cash being sent over. The U.S. naval blockade on Iran stays up to the final deal signed. So there's still a blockade there. There's a U. S presence. Trump publicly ordered Israel to stop bombing Lebanon, used the word prohibited in all caps. Netanyahu went on live tv, admitted that he was acting on a U. S request. Defense Minister Katz got overruled with an hour saying Lebanon ops have not yet been completed. A 10 day Israel Lebanon ceasefire took place overnight. Displaced Lebanese civilians started walking back to their villages. Oil dropped 12 in minutes. Global equity surge. Iran's foreign minister declared the Straits of Hormuz completely open. First time since March 27th. All of this on Friday. That was yesterday.
Jeff
No, that was all that one day, Jeff. It, it really, it really is amazing, you know, to see everything that's transpired over there. But once again, you know, most people, you know, haven't really understood or don't dig in enough into events leading up to, and really seeing. Another component of all this was that Iran also agreed to stop funding their proxies like Hamas and Hezbollah. So they have other proxies around the world. But what we are going to see and I pulled up a video on this is that Hezbollah is well entrenched in the United States and they are in Europe and they've been funding all of these street campus protests. So there was a video we played a while back with a, a Russian spy from the, I don't know if he was KGB or where he came from but he talked about the useful idiots in the west, the left in the west and even some of the, the Islamists they talk about, they always go to the left because they're accepted immediately. And that's where you have the useful idiots. Unfortunately we're seeing some of the unhinged libertarian types that claimed to Be MAGA never were. MAGA never were. Conservative. Conservative. But they thought they had found a home there. They weren't part of it. Still not part of it. And they're unhinged as, as the left are unhinged, but they won't go to that level to understand and comprehend the Islamist threat on the world. So as we're seeing Europe fall to the Islamic might, we're starting to see. And there's, there's enough evidence out there. If you don't speak Arabic, go find a translator. It's all over the place, but there's enough evidence out there. And I pulled one video clip. We'll watch it in a little bit. Specifically talking about how they're funding all these campus protests and using the useful idiots to the point now where it's the leftists that are leading the protest. It's a leftist wave waving the Hezbollah flags and, and the ISIS flags and the Hamas flags and, you know, supporting this cause that the rest of the Middle east doesn't support. You know, but it was all funded through Iranian money.
Chip
Yeah.
Jeff
Vis a vis Obama and Biden right there. And the Europeans too.
Chip
Read that.
Jeff
Obama and Biden sent the Supreme Leader billions. That's right. And Trump sent him to hell. And if you go, there's a perfect video that went back and showed all the different presidents talking about Iran. Iran will never have a nuclear weapon. It, you know, we'll make sure we're not going to allow it to happen. And so we saw it. It definitely predated George Bush. But, you know, let's start with George Bush. So it goes, George Bush, Obama said the same thing, but George Bush, Clinton, you know, a. Clinton had, let's start with Clinton. So Clinton had said it. You know, then we, we heard George Bush talking about it. Then we heard Obama talking about. Then you hear Biden talk about it. Then you hear, you hear Trump talk about it. But Trump actually took action. All the others kicked the can down the road. We'll never allow him to have a nuclear weapon even though there's evidence of them building it. And then every administration talked about that. Think about eight years under, under Clinton, eight years under George Bush, eight years under Obama. Right. So think of all that time they just kept kicking the can down the road and did nothing. Yet Obama and Biden, you know, sent billions of dollars over there.
Chip
Well, Jeff, you know what's funny is like people like, well, remember Trump said, look, the nuclear weapons, you can't do that. Everything he said about Iran, you know, they're liars they've lied. They're in the, the, there's 47 years of lies, right? I mean, so remember, remember in March they, because remember they said like, oh, we don't have our missiles, can't go more than 2,000km. We can barely hit that. Well then remember they launched that I, our BM into Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. Now that's like roughly around 4000 kilometers. Oops, over 2000 miles away. So 4000 kilometers. They said they couldn't shoot anything past 2000 kilometers. And where can they hit? Oh, they can target London. Oh, they can target anywhere in Europe is basically what they can do. They've got range, long range missiles. They put a nuclear warhead on it. And Keir Starmer is sitting there eating his like, you know, drinking his tea and his little crumpets or whatever and he's getting blasted, right? What Effectless, complete and absolute. This guy is the most, the biggest in the entire world and he thinks he's just charming. And the funny part about it is like, just look at the polls. He's hated. He is hated. The only person who was like less hated than him was Neville Chamberlain. And he basically turned, he basically appeased, you know, the Nazis. So I mean, I'm telling you what, he will go down as the most feckless prime minister of all. And there's been a bunch in a row that have been questionable. But if you guys. The funny thing about the sad thing, what saddens me the most about, about the UK are the Tories. The Tories are what we call leftists over here and, and we call them the Democrats. Okay, so you've got the Democrats and you got labor which is even further left than the so called Tories which are supposed to be conservative but they act exactly like Democrats. There's nothing conservative about them. What I mean when we talk about u. S. Conservatism versus like what you would call conservatives in the U.S. so they're like, oh, the conservatives didn't work. Well of course they didn't work here. We call them Democrats, they're losers. And then you get, they said like well let's install losers with even worse ideas. And that's called labor, right? So the losers that are even bigger losers. But there's, there's a lot of promising stuff here on the horizon in the US for example. And we'll go, we'll cut back to the UK in just a little bit. But potential map of the South. If the Supreme Court guts section two of the VRA Per the New York Times, this is the current map. The current map shows 65 representatives, Democrats 24. Now the potential map, you got Republicans, 77. That's a plus 12 pickup. And the Democrats 12, which is a minus 12. So this is what it would look like, the current map. On the left you can see that the red, you know, here's Florida down here in Georgia, Alabama.
Jeff
Right.
Chip
So this whole deep south right here is what it looks like now. So you got parts of Georgia that are blue. You got parts of Alabama, a big part of Alabama is blue. Mississippi, Louisiana, you got South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee is already red. So it really doesn't matter except for a little pocket over there, right? This is what it would look like. So look at what happens to Alabama. Miss Mississippi, done, Boom, completely. All red states. Look what happens to Florida. It, you know, of course, Jeff, here's, you know, if you look at where we are down here, unfortunately, there's Broward county right there. There's, there's your district right here, Jeff. There's your district sitting right there. Then you got, but look at, look at most of South Miami. You got parts of Miami D, look at all that. And you got Palm beach county right here. But you got little pockets. And it's funny because even Jacksonville, Jacksonville gone. So red. Red. There's not much left. So this would be a, what it would equate to is a 12 up pickup. Now, it doesn't mean that that would, it's a given. But you're talking about 12 pickups and seats, which is big, A big, big sort of a pickup there. And so big number. Hopefully that will happen. Court, there have been people out there that have said, knowing some inside information, saying it's already happened or it just hasn't been announced yet. And funny, the New York Times is sounding the alarm and they're the fake news organization. But the reason they're selling the alarm, because it affects them, the left. They claim to be independent people, Jeff. They're not independent. They're a bunch of losers. But you know what's been, know what's been the most surprising to me? CNN polls. CNN's putting these polls out. That's pro Trump. I like, I still, they keep putting him out. This guy's like. But look at this latest poll. Now this is good, Jeff, because this is the voting block. The people that actually vote, they're not the young, they're the old people like me.
Political Analyst
Jeff Trump actually has the best approval rating at this point. A second term of all of them. Donald Trump at four.
Chip
So what he's saying here is you have the 21st century presidents, okay? So you've got people who are age 65 and older who approve. Now this is Trump versus Bush and Obama.
Political Analyst
Trump actually has the best approval rating at this point in the second term of all of them. Donald Trump at 44%. Obama was under 40% at 39%. George W. Bush was way down there at 34%. So Donald Trump is beating other presidents this century at this point in their second term, beating all of them at. And therefore, as I said, holding his own amongst a very key voting bloc. The president, United States and the White House should like this number, especially compared to Obama, who Trump of course always likes to be.
Chip
And this was George W. Bush after
Jeff
he started talking about reforming Social Security. That's a bad idea among seniors. It certainly is the so called third rail of politics.
Chip
All right, talk to me how his
Jeff
number may have moved a little bit. President Trump and what that might mean.
Political Analyst
Okay, so you know, we spoke about the midterm elections. So, you know, oftentimes I ask myself, okay, you know, the president isn't obviously up for election this November, but Republicans
Chip
in the House anyway same that's that clip ended. But I mean they just keep putting this up. I always like those guys are usually trying to quiet. Okay, great, let's move on to something else but his number and why isn't this. They try to always change the subject on what like the next big thing is. That's huge news, man. I mean because that is the voting
Jeff
block to massive part of the voting block.
Chip
Yeah, those people actually go out and they actually do vote and they show up and especially in midterms. Okay. Because midterms a lot of people are like they're sleeping. They about everything but they don't vote. Now here we go. Here's this guy does parody. He goes under. I don't even know if this is a real name but Lyle Culpepper, but he was taking us through. He wanted to take a look at the money. He's. I don't think that's his real name, but he does, he does parody. Of course this doesn't really. This store doesn't really exist, but you get the thing. But he's going to take us through. Mom dummies, free grocery store Jeff, that's coming in. What year Is it coming?
Jeff
29.
Chip
When he's up for reelection. I think right before he won't bring the store out before he's going to talk about how great it is Just like the free buses and the bus fares. What up? And he's going to cut taxes. He's raising taxes. These people, the clown show never stops. They always lie. They always do that. But he's gonna make new promises. $30 million.
Jeff
$30 million to set up the storefronts.
Chip
Oh, my God. So here we go.
Parody Narrator
Check out mom Donnie's $30 million New York City owned grocery store. The first thing I noticed is the aesthetic. Very bare, very minimalist, and very mom Donnie. I love how limited the selection is. Not too many choices means that I'm not going to get overwhelmed with options. And for a non binary, neurodivergent polyamorous person experiencing whiteness, that's a huge plus. This place reminds me of like a stove Soviet Union era Whole Foods. I did find some fun things like corn boil seasoning and frosted flakes that vaguely resembled smooth testicles, but they were out of my price range. So I just ended up getting a box of Jell O. And it was great because I was able to pay with my oppression and racial equity cards. Democracy wins again.
Jeff
Come with racial inequity.
Chip
The non binary. Whatever he said. You know, the. The weird thing about it is somebody else will do that same video and it'll be true, right? It's like you can't tell the difference the blinds of blur between parody and reality. Sometimes I look at stuff and I'm like, is this parody? I'm like, sometimes it isn't. Sometimes it's real. You know, sometimes you have to think to yourself, like, is, how can this be? How so, Jeff, did you. Did you know that the arc. They Trump Triumph. Trump, they call it Trump them or whatever. This. So Trump wants to build this arc, right? He talked about it in his first term. This is the arch that he's going to build. So check out how freaking massive this thing is. I didn't know the size of it, but here's some size comparisons. When you look at here, I'm putting on screen. So if you look at right to the left, 99ft is a Lincoln Memorial. The White House is 70ft tall. Look at the size of this arch. It's freaking massive, Jeff. It's like 250ft. And the only thing taller is the Capitol. And it's only because of the dome, right? The majority of it ends here. There's nothing going on here. All the stuff happens down here. This is just, you know, right? So look at the size of that thing compared to the freaking White House, dude. It's massive.
Jeff
He's really putting a mark in Washington, that's for sure.
Chip
Well, if you look at this, you know, he's not going to be outdone. The Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch in New York City, that's 80ft. And then they're showing on the right, the Washington Square Arch in New York City, which is also 74ft, a little smaller. Then you got the proposed arch in Washington, which is 250ft tall. And if you look at it in Europe, well, it's the tallest, Jeff. And, you know, the trumpet will not be on. Donnie will be undefeated when it comes to building the biggest and the best. And that's huge. Arc of Constantine In Rome is 69ft. You got the Arc de Triomphe. And in Paris, which is 164ft, you got the Brandenburg Gate, which is 85ft. Then you got the Arco de Rua and Augusta Living a Augusta, Lisbon, Portugal, which is 98ft. Look at the size of this monster. And I've been to the Arctic Trail, which is pretty. It's impressive, right? It's. It's.
Jeff
Even the Brandenburg Gate's impressive.
Chip
Yeah, the Brandenburg Gate, too. So if you look at. But, I mean, it's roughly around the same size. It's just got, you know, some ornaments on top here. But you'll know if you've ever been to the Arctic Triumph, you know that. That landmark, if you've been there, because you look at it, like, never realize how big it is until you get close to it. You're like, holy. That thing is. Thing's pretty big, right? So it's basically roughly around the same size. It's maybe a little bit bigger, but roughly because of the. Because of the statues and ornaments on top, it's even bigger. But, man, you're right, Jeff. He's leaving his mark in a big way.
Jeff
Yep. Then there's. There's one in. In New Delhi also, that's 138ft tall. It's called the India Gate.
Chip
Interesting.
Jeff
Triumph of India.
Chip
Is that what it's called?
Jeff
That's what it's called.
Chip
I was unaware of that, Jeff.
Jeff
It's called. It's. It's just the. The India.
Chip
I was totally unaware of that. I had no clue. I had no idea.
Jeff
I wonder where the idea came from to start building these. These gates like this. Like who. Whose first idea?
Chip
I don't know. But then everybody started building them, right?
Jeff
Yeah.
Chip
Now they're everywhere now, Jeff, let's go back to the UK let's get back to Europe here, because India Gate The India Gate. Okay, where's that?
Jeff
That's in New Delhi.
Chip
New Delhi. All right. I was unaware of. I mean, it's bad enough that and, and Marconi's the one that surprised me. She turned into a feckless leftist. I don't know who got to her. I don't know who threatened her family, but she went all hardcore yay. And then she turned into a weak minded leftist woke mind virus liberal. I don't know what happened to her, but she's, she's embarrassing, you know. Now she wants more immigrants coming into Italy because she says the birth rate's down. Understood. But there's better ways to figure that out. And bringing in people destroy your culture. Nature, nature, nation is not it. Here's Starmer. Look at this. This guy, he's just a walking joke at this point. Look at this. Sorry, that's the wrong one. I put the wrong one up. Hang on a second. Let. Yeah, there we go. Here it is. Here it is right here.
Jeff
Mr. Keir Starmer arriving now lyse palace in Paris. He is going to meet the French president Emmanuel Macron. The agenda item is what the they and other world leaders do to aid in the efforts to reopen the Straits of Hormuz.
Chip
What? These guys, they're gonna. This is so funny. Now look at this, Jeff. This. I, I just. This is what I'm talking about. You're like. It's parody, right? They're gonna figure out how to open up the Straits, right? They didn't let us access our bases. They wouldn't let us land and refuel. We weren't asking for help. We're. We wanted to refuel planes and they said no. But look at this. So this is breaking. So Mertz, Starmer, McCrone and Maloney issue a joint announcement in Paris saying they're sending a naval mission to the Hormuz Strait to protect freedom of navigation. Are you effing kidding me? Do you remember when Keir Starmer sent the. Sent his ship over there and then it got there and broke down and broke down. If you want to look at what effectless looks like to say, look at that right there.
Jeff
Guys are clowns. Look at. They don't even seem like strong leaders.
Chip
They're all just Meloni. What a disappointment she turned out to be. My God, but I love the eu got played. The new Prime Minister of Hungary president, he. He's even more hard than, than the previous one. You know, it's unbelievable. They got played and it's the greatest thing ever. And wait till he takes over for Vanderlein. I mean, it's going to be just incredible.
Jeff
Do you see what Trump just posted on Truth Social? He said, has anybody looked at how badly the country of Spain is doing? Their financial numbers, despite contributing almost nothing to NATO and their military defense are absolutely horrendous. Sad to watch.
Chip
No, I gotta, I gotta share that with my friend Lionel, who has a real hard time because Trump's hated throughout the entire world. Meanwhile. Yeah, you had the Iranian people saying the, the saying that there will be the most celebrated foreign leader of all time. I mean, going in every, like you said, Jeff, every president talked about it. Look at this headline breaking. European leaders announced today they're sending help to capture Venezuelan's narco dictator Nicholas Maduro. You know, a day late and a pound or dollar short, basically. And these people are, they're just absolutely, I mean, is that they're going to open up the. Oh, yeah, okay. I mean they're going to open up the straight. They had nothing to do with it, but they're banding together and they put, they're tough and they put, they put together a plane. Jeff, here you go. I had this video up earlier, but this is some live video of the European leaders helping Trump. So what it is, if you guys are listening, it's a subway train comes by. The guy pretends to stop. It pretends like he's opening the door. People get in, the worker there, right. So people all assemble in on the subway. That's like he's closed the doors, now he's going to push it off. That is the Europe helping the US Right there. That's about the size of it.
Jeff
So Iran did just announce less than an hour ago that they're reclosing the Strait of Hermuz.
Chip
Yeah. And you know what's going to happen? Fire and brimstone coming.
Jeff
What do these guys think they're playing with? I mean, obviously everybody knows you can't trust them. Can't trust any of the terrorist organizations. Even though the leftists and the libertarians love to be able to trust them. They want to take all their media, you know, as, as truth and fact. It was funny, I forget one of these people that, that we know on X had posted something, commenting to something and someone else said his comment to him was like, oh, you know, now that, you know, the media agrees with your opinion, you, you believe it, but you don't believe any of the other media except for that media. Right. And the media is coming out of, from a terrorist organization, but you'll believe their media or from like Iran. It's coming from Iran, Hezbollah or, you know, it's coming from Hamas or from the Palestinians, whatever it is. All of these entities are well versed in subterfuge of media. And you know, a lot of people are new to it, so they're like, oh, we got to take it at face value because their media, it's like Al Jazeera, you know, it's. All the other outlets are going to be equally as truthful, but yet here we go. You know, just go back and see what these people do. It's horrible. The things they, it's just horrendous. And the evidence is there. You just have to go and find it. They've, they've seen it. But like in parts of Lebanon and Hamas is notorious for it, Palestinians are notorious where they'll make a claim that a building was, was attacked and they'll take a dead infant from a morgue and they'll bring them around from site to site to site and bury them in rubble, unbury them. When the media is there, they'll cart their people around in ambulances. And then when an ambulance get hit, gets hit, they'll say, oh, look, they're targeting ambulances, but the ambulance is a, is a carrier for the terrorists to move around. Like all this stuff happens on a regular basis. And yet, you know, I mean, I guess, you know, is it a good thing that people look at everything through rose colored glasses and they never want to see the reality? Maybe, maybe they have a better, you know, easier existence and they, they just want to see everything, the rose colored glasses. But, you know, you got to live in reality. And the Iranians, you know, we can't. What do you expect? You know, this is, this is their thing. They're known they should win an Oscar. If there was an Oscar award for, you know, deception, I think Iran would, would probably take the Oscar. Every, every single time.
Chip
Oh, without fail, Jeff. 100. Without fail. So here we go. Let me see. What is this video?
Jeff
Here we go.
Chip
Here's another live feed of Europeans helping the Americans. Ready? Keep your eye on the guy with the hat. There you are helping guy standing around while people are moving stuff. He's pretending like he's moving it or touching it and walks around and then he picks up a garbage off the ground. Guy's really crushing it, isn't he?
Jeff
Yeah.
Chip
Everybody else is hustling. Look it, that's the. There you go. There's Europe helping the U.S. thank you.
Jeff
Looks like it's Buddhist Then he goes
Chip
and then he goes and gets the water. This is fantastic. Everyone else is hustling moving stuff off a truck and he's like, oh, I gotta put the water down and go help it pretends like he's such as a box. There you go. Europe helping the United States. Fantastic.
Jeff
What a great.
Chip
Meanwhile, everyone's laughing at Europe right now. Over in the U.S. i'm like, great. Be conquered, man. I mean, good luck. Have, enjoy, have at it. What a just an apps. You want to know why? Here's I figured out, Jeff. I saw this video and immediately I thought to myself, I figured out why Europe doesn't know what's going on because they spend money on stupid things like this instead of, well, I don't know, maybe an army or maybe a navy or maybe a couple missiles, I don't know. But this is what they spent a ton of money on. Jeff, look at this. Now, if you're wondering, you're like, what is this? Well, this is a tiny city that somebody spent 40 million pounds on or euros on 40 million euros. 11 years to build this tiny little city. But why did you take care of your regular city before you start building tiny cities? Because you know what, a tiny city is going to get wrecked at some point, just like your city. Now look at this thing. It's, you know, it's cool. Here comes a jet. It's going to land. It looks like it comes through some, some I don't know where. It's off screen. It's on a. It's on a little hoist. And here comes in and there you go. Look at the jet. It comes in and it lands on a fake runaway in a fake city. Coupons and jet. Everyone's watching. Oh, wow, look at that. It just landed. Isn't that impressive?
Miniature World Presenter
What's up? I'm in a 45 million euro miniature world.
Chip
45 million.
Miniature World Presenter
Take a look later. All right, so behind me is Monaco, one of the first places you'll see. So this costs about 5 million euros to make in over150,000 man hours. And a live camera to show you the race. This is in real time. They have their own kind of formula formula one channel that they develop.
Chip
Look at this.
Miniature World Presenter
Take a look at the details. Took 11 years to develop. That right there is super car body reviewing a car. But look at this.
Jeff
Look how tiny she is.
Miniature World Presenter
Next time you're in Mitchell Wonderland.
Chip
So what they're spending money on instead of figuring out countries.
Miniature World Presenter
Mount Rushmore with Abraham Lincoln, George Washington now below. Mount Rushmore you have this little baseball.
Chip
But.
Miniature World Presenter
But here we have a button that says Area 51. So watch what happens if I press it. Cuz it's actually underground just like the real thing.
Jeff
Oh my God.
Miniature World Presenter
So there you have like a spaceship maybe being reverse engineered. Maybe some American black projects, you know, top secret. Right here you have the little planning board right there. Like where the aliens at 45 million euros got las Vegas. So in the middle you have the Luxor, that's the pyramid. And then you have all the whole kind of amusement parks inside the city. King Kong's at the top of the tower. Do you see that in the middle? And then you have. Yep. Rockets taking off.
Chip
Rocket. It's a space shuttle.
Miniature World Presenter
And on this side you have the more deserty area. So America took 99,000 hours to build. The layout size is 100 meters squared. The track length is 1,400 meters. There's 140 trains and about 70,000 LEDs. Obviously if you look around you have a lot of trees. So there's 10,000 trees, 800 cars and 400.
Chip
Anyway, that's a long video Jeff, but I just wanted to show that a little bit.
Jeff
Where was it? Where is that place?
Chip
I don't know where it is. I don't know where it's.
Jeff
It doesn't village in, in Ireland.
Chip
No where it's from. Some guy posted, he says we're there at this miniature world but he never says where they're actually at. Starmer went over to Europe, he went over to Saudi Arabia. He was going to go get an oil deal done. Going to get an oily done. You know what, you know what happened? They said get the F out. No oil deal scent pounding. I mean what an incredible loser on such an epic proportion level.
Jeff
This guy, he's such a beta, you
Chip
know, he's such a. Just oh my God. It's just like. Just don't just go hide somewhere dude, just go hide because you're just, you're just pathetic on every level. And then this. Jeff, look at this. Here, check this out. So Sharon Osborne is part of this, you know, a homelessness charity. And so this is from Tommy Robinson. So the headline reads center point to cut ties with Sharon Osborne after she backs Tommy Robinson rally. Homelessness charity distances self at Osborne says she plans to attend far right Unite the kingdom march. Tommy Robinson said the left are sick and deranged, they're mentally ill. They'll let homeless people suffer because Sharon supports a united. A united Kingdom. That's what it's called the UK Let that level of depravity sink in. I mean, what is this, Jeff? What? What is what? What actually is this stuff? And one other note here.
Jeff
The crypto virtual city. Whatever happened to that? I don't know what happened to that.
Chip
Yeah, I remember that. Yeah, I don't know what happened to that either. Something. But what's funny, Jeff, is the left are starting to eat themselves. They. They took out Swalwell. Okay? The left took out Swalwell. Here they are now. Here's Ro Khanna, who's gonna run for president. Dope. California dope. He wants Schumer to step down. Look at this.
Jeff
Was one of only seven Democrats to vote to send bulldozers to Israel. Forty Senate Democrats voted no. These bulldozers are used to illegally destroy.
Chip
So Chuck Schumer actually did something right, and he's getting chastity.
Jeff
Palestinian villages. Mr. Schumer, you are out of touch with the base of this party and with your own caucus.
Chip
The base of the party, but not the majority of the United States.
Jeff
Step aside.
Chip
You know, if they're calling for their own. Jeff, they're starting to eat themselves. And the one thing I've always respected about the Democrats is they were always united. They didn't care what happened, what controversy. They were like. They were like, united. You're not going to swim. The Republicans. Throw them under a bus. Oh, yeah, I'm gonna distance ourselves from that now. They're starting to eat their own. And it's glorious, and I can't get enough of it. And I do have to bounce. Jeff, I'm gonna let you take us out of here because I got a bolt. I got an appointment. I gotta run. I'm two minutes late. So, guys, have a good one. We'll see you guys tomorrow night.
Jeff
See ya.
Chip
Chip out.
Jeff
Yeah. All right. We got two things that we're going to get into. So actually, this is. I think this one is going to be a lot of fun to play. So let me. Let me pull this up. Let me make sure. Oh, no, this wasn't. Hang on, let me see if this is the right one. This one here. Oh, yeah, here we go. We're gonna end with this. This is a funny video. New video release for Trump. So let me pull this one up here. Here we go. Add it to the stage. Here we go. Let's roll with this. Oh, you know what? Probably not sharing audio. Give me one second. Throw up this one. Actually, there were a couple good articles to. To cover here, but let me throw this one. Up here real quick, this video. Here we go. Reset. Here we go.
Rap Artist
The world is mine Movers get back. You talked all that smack so you got clap. Yeah, I told us on I'm the daw big fish in a small pond now these pups squat up on my hook as I cook Cause I took the straight now they shook dummies whole day breath they wanted just me make them crispy fry them up like cappers from the Mississippi Leader unseen just a lip dick dancing queen we see your women up Noah covered up Bow down before your bridges all fall the seven special forces running up on your bees we own the seas and the Chinese on their knees making trump please before any act hard will the rewind off fool and bow down when I come to your town Bow down when a Persian bound Bow down oh I drop a crater or two Bow down to the dog who's greater than you.
Jeff
I don't know where people come up with this stuff. It's just, just non stop. Yeah. Jim D. Actually, so Expectorant, they have shifted, they have grown a little bit. I have not been into their, into their platform in quite a while, but they were definitely making some, some huge progress and some big developments in that space, which is really kind of net positive with Expector because you've seen how they've kind of grown up and how they've done some really great things overall. And they hung in there bootstrapped a lot of it on their own. And so if you look at kind of the developers and project and focus, man, those guys have, have really put a lot, you know, a ton on the line to get exactly where they're at at this point. So. But we've, we've covered a whole bunch of great topics here. I did want to kind of leave this one. I thought this was kind of an important video to put out there. Takes us from the funny back maybe over to a little bit of somber reality. And this, these types of videos are evident and available over the years. There's, you know, quite a bit of them when you actually see the true uh, intention, uh, from his b. The true intention of what's happening. And, and you look even there's, there's. You go back. I've seen videos back in the, in the 90s, Sesame street videos that were for kids, that were really instructional videos on martyrdom. And so let's, let's just throw this one up real quick. So this video here kind of interview talking specifically about uh, Hezbollah presence in different parts of the world and using the US Students kind of the useful idiots, not just us but, but in, in the West. Now it's an interesting dynamic over in Lebanon because Lebanon used to have a very large Christian majority in Lebanon. And it, Lebanon used to be kind of like the Paris of the Middle east. And then you enter in backed by Iranian money and now you have the outcome with Lebanon. And so let's put this one up. And I just think this is kind of an interesting video, kind of an important video to watch. So the point of how they need to continue to support exactly what's happening and the, the protests and they see it as a positive activity for these leftists. So this is really important. Right. And you look at the, the specific terminology here but entering into the heart of Western societies. And so wait till you see kind of this, this next section which kind of summarize sums it up. So you know when you really get into it. And so let me, let me pull back on this one and out, out of the video. Hang on one second. If you get more into like their, their full statement and you'll get. There's a lot more to it, you know, the total investment of their times and efforts here. But here we're currently investing in protests and demonstrations in Western countries, especially among college students. We already have Muslim students agitating, but it's the Western students themselves who will destroy their own countries. This is the decade old plan of Hisbah in the Islamic regime in Iran to destroy America and Europe. And so it's exactly kind of their, their purpose and what they do. And you know, you just have to be very cognizant, aware. It's crazy to think though that stuff like this actually goes on and there's concerted efforts to, to disrupt the typical civil existence in Western countries. But we're the, the great Satan per the Iranian regime for many years and Iran has done a tremendous job orchestrating and funding all of these proxy groups from the Houthis to Hamas to Hezbollah that have disrupted many, many years of disruptions throughout the Middle East. And if we think about with the absence of that how economically prosperous the entire Middle Eastern region could be if they would just kind of relax a bit on the, on the Islamist rhetoric. But we just have to be cognizant of things that happen on a regular interval. Why do we have to be cognizant? Because a lot of it's coming here right to our backyards. So anyhow, I thought that would be a good wrap up tomorrow night. We will be back here on the chain back Sunday evening 8:00pm Eastern Standard Time. Always appreciate all of you guys for being here with us. Some new faces that pop in that are relatively new with us that are continuously posting in the chat as well. So love to see you guys like seeing some of the old personalities that have been popping in lately as well, like Bird Dog, who's an OG in the space and OG here with on the Chain as well. So always good to see everybody here with us. And we'll be back tomorrow night, Sunday, 8:00pm Eastern Standard Time. And with that, we are out of here. Check you guys out on the next one. Are you down with otc?
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On The Chain – Blockchain and Cryptocurrency News + Opinion
Hosts: Jeff and Chip
Date: April 18, 2026
This episode of "On the Chain" explores the significant transformation underway as XRP becomes multichain, most notably with its launch on the Solana blockchain. Jeff and Chip break down what this new integration unlocks — not only for XRP, but for the wider digital asset ecosystem and global liquidity flows. The episode moves from technical fundamentals and institutional adoption to macro-level implications, including regulatory shifts and geopolitical developments, always through the lens of XRP’s evolution and influence in the blockchain space.
Timestamps: 00:01 – 06:16
Chip: “Solana’s been a pretty friendly ecosystem overall… putting XRP over there too, it makes a lot of sense. This cross chain stuff is really important.” (03:40)
Timestamps: 07:15 – 14:19
Timestamps: 17:59 – 21:18
Chip: “This is where the XRP Ledger starts looking less like a payments rail and more like programmable settlement infrastructure. It’s like moving money, enforcing the conditions around it at a protocol level.” (19:59)
Timestamps: 21:18 – 22:41
Timestamps: 22:41 – 28:50
| Time | Segment | |----------|-----------------------------------------------------------| | 00:01 | Introduction & XRP's Multichain Evolution | | 03:30 | Garlinghouse Quote + Community Reaction | | 06:16 | Institutional Flows, ETFs, and Mainstream Acceptance | | 12:00 | Reflection on XRP Lawsuit's Role in Regulatory Clarity | | 17:59 | XRPL’s Smart Escrow & Beyond-Payments Use Cases | | 21:18 | Blockchain + AI Integrations — Agentic Systems | | 22:41 | Geopolitical Segment: Middle East, UK, EU, and U.S. | | 46:50 | Media Subterfuge and Proxy Funding—Hezbollah, Protests | | 52:50 | UK/Europe Cultural/Economic Commentary |
The hosts conclude by reflecting on how activism, legislation, and geopolitics affect the crypto ecosystem — and why engagement and vigilance remain essential. They highlight the continued evolution of the space (with specific accolades for the “grown-up” XRP and XRPL community) and commit to deepening the conversation in future episodes.
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