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Key discussion points included:
- Ripple's AI Agent payment vision and autonomous commerce
- RLUSD's growing role in the digital economy
- Bitso launching MXNB on XRPL
- Ripple preparing XRPL for a post-quantum world
- Why quantum computing could reshape blockchain security
- The future of AI-to-AI payments and machine economies
- Whether Ripple is building infrastructure for the next generation internet
- Regulatory developments including the Clarity Act
- XRP's role within a much larger ecosystem strategy
- Why Ripple appears focused on long-term infrastructure rather than short-term price action
- Discussion around AI development, Claude, Codex, HyperAgent and government restrictions on frontier AI models
- Upcoming Hugo Philion interview and Flare ecosystem discussion
Links to Articles We Discuss
Q-Day is coming and most chains aren’t prepared.
— RippleX (@RippleXDev) June 12, 2026
The XRP Ledger is building quantum readiness in a multi-phase approach, in parallel with security, tokenization, and agentic workflows.@ja_akinyele explains why infrastructure this critical can't afford to wait:… pic.twitter.com/Ck7I3K9ldV
The agent economy is arriving faster than most people realize. Soon, billions of dollars in value could move through agent-to-agent workflows, with AI agents paying for services, accessing data, and settling transactions autonomously.
— J. Ayo Akinyele (@ja_akinyele) June 10, 2026
We're building XRPL to be the go-to… https://t.co/L2mViuPJJ4
Ripple and @Bitso are expanding their long-standing payments partnership.
— Ripple (@Ripple) June 11, 2026
Bitso’s regulated MXN-backed stablecoin, MXNB, will be issued on XRPL and integrated into Ripple’s Payments on DEX infrastructure, supporting enterprise stablecoin settlement across Latin America.…
Make waves on XRPL this summer.
— XRPL Commons (@xrpl_commons) June 12, 2026
You have 3 months to do one thing: build something new and get people using it. The best projects walk away with cash prizes and an optional path into our incubator.
Kicks off with a 2-day technical deep-dive into XRPL on June 22. All online.
->… pic.twitter.com/RvKk5gDxAA
AI agents are beginning to transact, pay for services, and settle value autonomously.
— RippleX (@RippleXDev) June 10, 2026
Today, we're introducing the XRPL AI Starter Kit, a new set of tools and integrations designed to help developers build agentic payment applications on the XRP Ledger: https://t.co/2lacn299J8…
$XRP has been recognized in @FortuneMagazine’s inaugural #FortuneCrypto100, a ranking of the most influential projects shaping the future of blockchain.
— RippleX (@RippleXDev) June 11, 2026
A testament to the technology, builders, businesses, and global community driving innovation across the XRP Ledger ecosystem. https://t.co/jMmaVnpBOd
Flare founder @HugoPhilion just said it out loud 👀
— 𝗕𝗮𝗻𝗸XRP (@BankXRP) June 10, 2026
XRP and Ripple were accused of being the banker coin… now everyone in the entire industry is desperate to be the banker coin.
They mocked the vision. Now they're copying it 🔥$XRP $FLR @FlareNetworks pic.twitter.com/UHQCbR7lbA
Love hearing nuggets like this...USMNT coach Mauricio Pochettino was only hired because hedge fund billionaire Ken Griffin (and others) helped cover his salary worth several million dollars annually. pic.twitter.com/73UKYreDmw
— Joe Pompliano (@JoePompliano) June 12, 2026
Elon Musk just became the world's first trillionaire. This needs to be a wake up call. pic.twitter.com/H3w4OxA91U
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) June 12, 2026
Never forget - the D party doesn’t want the welders, cafeteria staff and regular workers to become rich.
— Ari Fleischer (@AriFleischer) June 12, 2026
They want them on welfare. They want their vote, not their success. https://t.co/IitqTei5qT
I feel like she missed the part where all the employees had a piece of the success. https://t.co/ctD0bav8CF
— Justine Bateman (@JustineBateman) June 12, 2026
History's first trillionaire is a guy who catches rockets out of the sky with chopsticks and beams internet to every dead zone on the planet.
— tetsuo (@tetsuoai) June 12, 2026
Same guy ships cars that drive themselves, humanoid robots for the factory floor, brain chips that let paralyzed people move a cursor… https://t.co/nbSVgTIZJa
MSNOW is pushing the "Elon is a white supremacist” stuff again.
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) June 13, 2026
Just can’t help themselves. pic.twitter.com/VKsExeL5Sa
💥Newsom. Sanders. Warren. Three politicians. Zero companies built. Combined wealth funded by lobbyists and donor cash.
— Brigitte Gabriel (@ACTBrigitte) June 12, 2026
Elon Musk dominated in: Payments. Cars. Energy. Space. Social Media. Communications. AI
He didn't just succeed he made America stronger.
And that's exactly… pic.twitter.com/S1ifWVJ7LH
386 days after Elon’s decline and fall…
— C3 (@C_3C_3) June 12, 2026
He’s the World’s first trillionaire.
The Media truly does suck. pic.twitter.com/RlrARbqngo
Ro, you’re lying and you know it.
— Yogi (@Houseofyogi) June 12, 2026
You compared a man’s net worth to a country’s GDP. A balance sheet to a year of output. You went to Yale. You learned the difference between a stock and annual output flow.
But being a politician and lawyer, you love to lie and gaslight the… https://t.co/mps3kiW1gL
Hello Senator....
— US Oil & Gas Association (@US_OGA) June 13, 2026
This November it will be 50 years since you were first elected to Congress, so we want to be the first to say .
"Happy 50th Anniversary of drawing a taxpayer funded salary."
That is quite an achievement.
In fact - you are 2nd longest-still serving member in… https://t.co/pipwv7YXwH
New study shows Conservatives are happier than Liberals
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) June 12, 2026
“Mental illness is emerging as its own political identity and is most heavily aligned with leftist political ideology and causes” https://t.co/EESc9Uy1K4
This single tweet cost California hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes, revenue, and jobs: pic.twitter.com/eXwbX4gi1l
— John LeFevre (@JohnLeFevre) June 12, 2026
🚨 WOW! President Trump's incoming PERMANENT Director of National Intelligence was calling out California's fraud and rigged elections
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) June 11, 2026
Sounds like he'll be a great fit!
EXPOSE IT ALL, JAY CLAYTON! 🔥
"On election integrity, we're doing a TERRIBLE JOB! The American people are… https://t.co/nFo1vljqjB pic.twitter.com/VIcjGWIZ2f
In 2022 Jen Psaki was asked about claims that we were operating biolabs in Ukraine. She denied the existence of "bioweapons" programs and then called the whole thing Russian disinformation. pic.twitter.com/LZYUJ6oxbj
— MAZE (@mazemoore) June 12, 2026
Denmark publishes crime by country of origin, not nationality. I looked at 2021-2025 data.
— Smirkley (@Smirkley) June 11, 2026
Overall: Somali-origin 7.8x the Danish rate. American-origin 0.34x.
Thread of Top Five and Bottom Five. pic.twitter.com/5kbcztdP2n
Rep. Ilhan Omar torches Jerry Seinfeld over "disturbing" Palestine remarks.
— TMZ (@TMZ) June 11, 2026
🎥: @hicharliecotton pic.twitter.com/Fvue0CGNNQ
City Council meeting in Hamtramck, MI
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) June 12, 2026
Hard to believe that this is America pic.twitter.com/Y8gt6Xw3w5
🚨 WOW! Spencer Pratt just dropped this after they stole the LA mayoral election from him — he’s about to drop BOMBSHELLS he was saving for the general election!
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) June 12, 2026
“We have some recordings of one of your insulting candidates doing and saying something that would make her resign in…
15 men have just been jailed for a combined 188 years in Bradford, England, for the repeated rape and abuse of a teenage girl over a four-year period between 2007 and 2011.
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) June 12, 2026
The victim was between 14 and 18 years old during the abuse and says the trauma has “consumed” nearly 20… pic.twitter.com/F7Li1FDpNI
My new favourite jam 🙂 pic.twitter.com/PfYHFr1MuA
— Bobby (#IStandWithIreland 🇮🇪) (@Noah43259635) June 11, 2026
Europe is about to wake up in a fucking nightmare pic.twitter.com/ddTxjI14Vv
— Darth Powell (@VladTheInflator) June 12, 2026
One country allowed millions of low IQ migrants to flood in, while the other didn’t.
— American AF 🇺🇸 (@iAnonPatriot) June 12, 2026
Be like Poland. pic.twitter.com/JQosbnbGt5
A pro-U.S., patriotic populist Right movement sweeps LatAm…and here is the “framing” of the Wall Street Journal??? pic.twitter.com/2PzmyqfzQL
— Steve Cortes (@CortesSteve) June 12, 2026
