🚨 What did $XRP do after each U.S. midterm election? Before saying “it always works the same way,” check out these numbers 👇 🇺🇸 November 4, 2014 elections: • 30 days later: +177.6% • 90 days later: +184.5% • One year later: +3.0% 🇺🇸 November 6, 2018 elections: • 30 days later: −43.4% • 90 days later: −45.3% • One year later: −43.5% 🇺🇸 November 8, 2022 elections: • 30 days later: −2.9% • 90 days later: −3.3% • One year later: +69.4% Notice 2014: XRP nearly tripled its price within 90 days, but one year later, it held just a 3% gain from election day. In 2022, something very different happened: it was still negative at 90 days, yet ended nearly 70% higher after a full year. Will 2026 resemble any of these years—or break the script? 👀

Ripple has disbursed over $150,000,000 to fight the SEC, and retail investors continue to wonder whether Ripple will use XRP:Native.

XRP is the only one among the top 5 to be green on the exact day of the U.S. midterm elections. And here’s something worth more attention than just a simple celebration. 👀 After the 2014, 2018, and 2022 elections, Bitcoin still experienced further declines in the following weeks or months. That precedent exists, though it doesn’t determine what will happen this time. Now consider what it feels like to see XRP rise while the other major coins fall: you start wondering if someone knows something, if big money is entering, or if you’re missing the move. This is where a manipulation scheme could be constructed: pushing the price upward, fueling that expectation, and capitalizing on the buying frenzy of those who jump in excitedly—only to sell them positions. The elections provide the perfect narrative. Every rally would be interpreted as a sign that “something big is coming,” even though the price itself reveals no electoral information. That’s the scenario I’d be watching. XRP is drawing attention. Now it’s time to see if this momentum holds once the results come in. Because the price might genuinely rise—yet the story told to explain that rise could be the hook.

The involvement of BNY Mellon and $XRP seems far more significant to me than the word “custody” alone conveys. When you read that a bank will hold an asset, it often feels like the story ends there. But it’s worth understanding what this actually enables. Consider the perspective of an institution that wants to work with XRP. Before moving funds, they must first address fundamental questions: Who holds the assets? Who can authorize transfers? How are transactions recorded? What controls are in place? For us, a wallet may be sufficient. But an institution needs a structure that aligns with its regulatory obligations and operational processes—and that’s where BNY comes in. The announcement allows eligible institutional clients to hold and transfer XRP within BNY’s platform, making it easier for them to engage with the asset using a financial services provider they already trust. That’s why I fully understand the reasoning behind “if they’re going to custody it, they must see value.” My interpretation is that BNY sees a business opportunity in serving clients who already hold XRP—or may want to adopt it. Building this capability signals commercial interest, even if it doesn’t yet reveal the scale of demand. What’s particularly noteworthy is that BNY describes this custody as a foundation for connecting assets to liquidity, payments, and collateral services. Having assets securely held makes it easier to integrate them into other operations once those services become available and authorized. Moreover, the collaboration with Ripple includes expanding services on the XRP Ledger and exploring commercial financing. This reflects broader ambitions, though it remains to be seen what role XRP, RLUSD, and other assets will play in each offering. So yes—there are clear reasons to interpret this move as a strategic bet on providing services around XRP. What we still need to see is how far that bet extends. For me, the concrete advancement is that an institution now has another pathway to hold and transfer XRP within a banking-grade infrastructure. From there, customer adoption, product usage, and transaction volumes will reveal just how far this initiative will go.

$XRP 🤝 BNY MELLON XRP haters are going to be furious today…

🚨 BREAKING: Evernorth files a new S-1 form with the SEC. The company now has access to a committed capital line with Cantor to issue up to 5.2 million new $XRPN shares. This offering could generate up to $80.7 million in gross proceeds. Another step forward in its treasury strategy centered on $XRP.

There is a part of what David Schwartz said that deserves to be clearly understood: he considers it very unlikely that XRPL will achieve massive success in finance while $XRP continues to have low demand and low value. That is the core of his message. And he’s not saying this as someone who just discovered this technology—he’s one of the engineers who created XRPL. Think about it simply: sharing a network doesn’t mean everyone wants to receive the same thing. Some will use digital dollars, others euros, and others different assets—and they’ll need to exchange them. That’s where XRP can serve as a bridge, when routing through it is more efficient than making a direct exchange—not out of obligation or loyalty to Ripple, but because it simply works better. That possibility already exists on XRPL. Therefore, when someone says, “They can use the network without using XRP as a bridge,” they’re referring to something possible in certain transactions. But for the network to achieve large-scale success while XRP remains with low demand and low value is precisely the scenario Schwartz considers very unlikely. The only exception he raises would be a world where a single asset dominates nearly all settlements—and even that scenario doesn’t seem likely to him. To me, this is far more interesting than any price prediction. He’s explaining why he finds it difficult to imagine XRPL achieving major financial success without XRP experiencing high demand and value. His position is even stronger: he considers it very improbable that XRPL can succeed on a large scale while XRP is left behind.

I want to see XRP at $3 before considering a serious trend reversal. What do you think? https://t.co/yh7ErUQJSh

🚨 BREAKING: The DTCC tokenization launch is scheduled for October 28, with #Ripple Prime among the participants.

Now @Ripple has launched its official ripple:native account on X. I don’t want to induce FOMO, but… isn’t this the exact moment when DTCC is launching its tokenization program? Isn’t this when Ripple Swell is arriving? Isn’t this when we’re receiving daily updates about partnerships? We don’t know exactly what Ripple has planned for XRP, but we should definitely stay alert! 👀