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On October 5, XRP goes to war, and the weapon isn't a price pump. It's a key. The XRP Ledger's Permission Delegation upgrade has entered its 14-day activation countdown and could go live October 5 if validator support holds. Master keys stay locked in the vault. Delegates get a badge instead: up to ten specific permissions, and never the keys. Jeff and Chip break down why that's the feature compliance departments, stablecoin issuers and AI agents have been waiting for, while XRP sits at $1.50 and everybody else stares at red candles.
- Amazon Web Services joins the XRP Ledger Hackathon with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. It's a big name, but don't read it as Amazon adopting XRP.
- Agentic payments go multi-rail: the XRPL AI Starter Kit adds the Open Wallet Standard, MPP from Tempo and Stripe, and x402.
- Evernorth teams up with The Bear Champ, JC Rivera: "Blockchain tech can be copied, but the community cannot."
- RLUSD and the APAC stablecoin map, BlackRock comparing LLM tokens to crypto tokens, and the ECB's Pontes platform and digital euro pilot, with a CBDC eyed for 2029.
- FOUNDERS, the sitcom parody about how the XRP Ledger was born, plus the XRP concert your friends didn't want to go to.
- Also in the back half: Trump vs. Biden at the UN, Milei torching the UN, Rubio and Cuba, the Denmark–Greenland deal, Judge Judy, and Around the World from Canada, Ukraine and Poland.
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