BlackRock put a 12-month clock on Wall Street. Chip brings the Swell debrief, the RLUSD attestation and how XRP could flip ETH, then the midterms.

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BlackRock says that in 12 months some on-chain markets will be deeper than traditional markets, and Jeff and Chip ask the question every XRP holder should be asking: is that window yours? Chip, fresh off Ripple's Swell in New York, walks through the Platinum Summit two doors down from BlackRock's Hudson Yards office, his run-in with Jack McDonald, and the September RLUSD attestation, signed off by Deloitte, showing distribution on Coinbase and Robinhood and institutional use at BNY, Standard Chartered and DriveWealth. Flare joins the XRPL Foundation's recommended validator list as Anodos steps away, John Lilic lays out how $35B a week settling on the XRP Ledger could flip ETH, and the guys run the numbers on what Swell says about Ripple's business. With XRP at $1.25 and down 50% on the year, the chat asks the real question: is this the bottom?

Then it is geopolitics with the midterms two days out. UN Ambassador Mike Waltz shuts down Cuba's delegate, Harry Enten's polls and Fox's path to the Senate majority get picked apart, Rep. Haley Stevens crosses over to endorse Mike Rogers in Michigan, John Fetterman torches Abdul El-Sayed, and Dave Rubin's AI short on the DSA lands hard. Plus Kamala's latest accent, a little comedy, and one message to close it out: go vote Tuesday.

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