On The Chain - Blockchain and Cryptocurrency News + Opinion

With all the attention on RLUSD, where does that leave XRP? At Ripple Swell 2026, Brad Garlinghouse answered it: XRP is still Ripple's North Star, and about half of all RLUSD is now issued on the XRP Ledger. Jeff flies solo with Chip on the ground in New York: Robinhood and Bitstamp, Evernorth on $400B in tokenized assets, RedotPay, AI agents moving money with AWS, Stripe and...

For years XRP was the piece Wall Street pushed around the board, sacrificed first and written off every time. Not anymore. Jeff and Chip break down the XRP Ledger Hackathon, FOUNDERS Episode 4, JoelKatz taking on the City of Toronto, and Chip getting shut out of Swell Demo Days. Then the geopolitics: the No Kings rally, liberty versus force, Trump's Michigan rally and the El-...

Wall Street is working out how to make real money from digital assets, and Ripple wants to sell it the plumbing. Jeff and Chip follow the money to the question XRP holders care about: when the banks and Ripple get paid, does any of it reach the people holding the token?

XRP holders want to get paid, but who pays? Jeff and Chip follow the money through Firelight, the Flare-based protocol now offering onchain cover for a Kraken DeFi Earn strategy. Stakers earn rewards for backing that protection, and a confirmed covered loss can hit their stake. Firelight's Jesus Rodriguez explains why XRP, which never had a native yield, makes cheaper insuran...

Stripe just came for XRP. Privy, the wallet company Stripe owns, is partnering with Ripple to put embedded wallets on the XRP Ledger, so developers can drop XRP and RLUSD straight into their apps. Jeff and Chip walk through what that opens up, then connect it to a week where the big names kept lining up behind the ledger.