XRP Safe, Ripple Expands Trademark as “Amazon of Fintech” Becomes Reality, DTCC Chose XRP FORK CHAIN

Added: 2026-05-28

[00:00:00]Hey, hey everybody. It's Eddie from Tokyo. This is your cryptocurrency update from Japan and we've got the Philippines Marcos Jr. here in the country visiting the Imperial Palace. It is the 70th anniversary of diplomatic ties. We're going to see some video clips of this anniversary celebration, but also too, it's been a year ago today since we donated this piece of monstrosity to the Bitcoin community. Yes, it was May 28th, 2025 that we donated this to the Bitcoin Museum in Memphis, Tennessee.

[00:00:43]Quite frankly, when I saw it, I actually commented to a Ripple employee that I thought it was a joke. Um, it wasn't a joke.

[00:00:53]>> [laughter] >> But maybe as of today it's considered a joke. I don't know, but I'll tell you what's not a joke and that's the pricing. We have conflict. Yes, it with some recent strikes that have been really an anchor on the market. And we've got some surprising lows. Ethereum dropping under 2,000 and Bitcoin under 73,000 and XRP what at a dollar 28. And yes, on this big day for XLM who was enjoying this gain with their DTCC news, it's still holding on to some of that double digit gain and it's great, but what a what a bad timing for them to have such big news.

[00:01:45]And look at Denelle. Yes, she is thrilled and if you haven't heard the news yet, well, let me just let you hear it from her words. She is so excited to tell you all about it.

[00:01:58]>> Today, DTCC's tokenization service announced its plans to connect with Stellar. DTCC is the backbone of global capital markets. 50 years of post-trade infrastructure and 114 trillion dollars in custodial assets. And starting in the first half of 2027, DTCC tokenized assets are expected to be available on the Stellar network. That means US Treasuries, ETFs tracking major indices, constituents of the Russell 1000 on a public blockchain with the same investor protections, entitlements, and safeguards as those that are currently held in custody today. We've spent more than a decade building a network that institutions can depend on. Stellar was built to move institutional volume, meet compliance standards, and manage risk from day one.

[00:02:45]The Stellar network was truly built for this moment.

[00:02:48]>> Even Jed McCaleb put out a very rare post. He says that Stellar continues to be one of the best blockchains for real-world use.

[00:02:57]That narrative that it's for retail and Ripple is for the enterprise clients, yes, don't buy into that, not even for 2 seconds. They are fierce competitors and yes, the bad blood does exist and I'm not going to go into it in this video.

[00:03:15]If you want to do your own research, yes, you may, especially if that interests you. But what's wonderful to see is that the DTCC chose a public blockchain.

[00:03:27]And yes, I think you'll want to investigate their use cases because they're pretty stellar, no pun intended.

[00:03:36]Here is an interesting breakdown. You can see that the Stellar blockchain customers by country, 41.2% are in the United States, followed by Germany, then Australia, and then China, Netherlands, Switzerland, Mexico, France, Bahamas, and others. And with the blockchain by customers in industry, yes, banking and financial services 35.3% dominate. And they do a lot of non-profit. You can see 23.5% professional services 23.5% followed by some retail, some construction, and manufacturing.

[00:04:20]And why do people get so excited with the DTCC? Well, it's their performance.

[00:04:25]You can see here in 2025 the total value processed was in the quadrillions.

[00:04:32]4.7 quadrillion.

[00:04:36]Do I think the XRP ledger will be one of those future announcements of their agnostic expansion? Yes, I absolutely do. And it was on May 4th where they announced the 50-plus firms to drive digital assets adoption. And you have Ripple Prime as being one of those 50 mentioned.

[00:04:58]This was an insanely popular post that I put yesterday. Yes, it was exclusive scoop. I found that the company Ripple had filed for two new trademarks. One for their iconic triskelion and the word mark. And it's common because companies do this when they ex- pand protection to new services. So, it's a standard move.

[00:05:25]But, what's not standard is to see the um the incredible amount of new products and services added to that protection.

[00:05:37]I mean, the list is literally on the right here and it's too long for me to list all the way through.

[00:05:44]But, you can just see that this particular company Ripple is truly becoming the Amazon of financial services.

[00:05:54]I had a few comments about well, what about the wordmark XRP? Well, yes, I covered that for my Patreons and subscribers. It is a registered trademark and it does belong to the XRPL Foundation. The one right now that happens to be registered in Paris, France.

[00:06:16]Okay, the new fix amendment is officially up live. 66% of Ripple nodes uh upgraded. Which is very typical. Yes, right in line with many of the previous major upgrades.

[00:06:33]After activation, many of the slow operators catch up. The network stays stable because validators, the real critical subset, they always upgrade faster.

[00:06:48]Bitwise, they are very big on Canton.

[00:06:53]They've been writing blogs and they've been talking about it a lot and they have launched their ETP, which is an electronic traded product fully backed by the Canton tokens in cold storage.

[00:07:06]And according to Bitwise, Canton the tokens are built for capital markets.

[00:07:13]There's an update coming from YouTube.

[00:07:16]They're rolling out automatic AI detection for AI-generated content.

[00:07:21]Adding more prominent disclosure labels and flagging videos even if the creators fail to disclose AI use. I am happy to see this. And Gemini is really looking strong. The reason why we follow them is because Ripple has participated in giving them a credit line. And it was Q1 2026 that their revenue is up 42% to 50 million. They have very strong services and credit card growth thanks to Ripple, I'm sure. They're They're using RLUSD.

[00:07:56]They have a 100 million investment secured. Their Earn Genesis Fund was fully returned. The SEC case was dismissed. The CFTC is actually currently right now helping vacate old settlement and there are new products live and diversified revenue. It's looking very good. The party that the Prime Minister Takeichi-san is with is proposing bridge bond proposals. Yes, the Japan ruling party wants to issue these bridging bonds to fund big investments like chips and chips, etc. The short-term bonds that have a clear payback plan and they won't count in the official debt numbers.

[00:08:47]Yeah, I don't know. Sounds like they're spending without trying to scare the markets.

[00:08:53]There are lots of wonderful photographs on X with this official visit, but where the eyes were is on the Crown Prince. He joined the banquet. Here he is sitting next to Aiko-sama, which is the first born but in Japan, it cannot go to the first born female. So, she is looking like with their conversations and a lot of it is is also on video. Looks like they're having a great time and a really good conversation.

[00:09:27]There was so much video focusing on him and I think he is a great conversationalist, which is wonderful to see.

[00:09:36]Fully engaged, he must have fantastic English as he speaks to the Ferdinand Marcos Jr.'s wife.

[00:09:47]And no, that wasn't the fluff. I want to cover a Mainichi auction. This is a company that operates as a sister company to the SBI Art Auction Company.

[00:09:59]And yesterday there was a stunning head-to-head online auction battle and it was able to fetch 1.4 million for a tea ceremony bowl. Why?

[00:10:13]It's a first generation Raku Wabi-sabi style with a potter's mark by Rikyū. He lived 1522 to 1591 and most most known for the way he defined the Japan way of tea. And this this bowl was also owned by a powerful merchant in Osaka. It was the Konoike family who began that legacy back during the Edo period. As a result of that online battle, this piece brought 10 times the expected amount. And so somebody is very happy. All right, everybody, do take care. Sayonara for now. Bye-bye.

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