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Welcome to On the Chain On The Chain focuses on Blockchain and Digital Assets, Cryptocurrency news, and opinion with a focus on XRP. For those who are brand new to the Digital Asset / Blockchain space, and those who have been around and are considered to be veterans in this space. OC has a global audience., providing high-quality, fact-based content and no hype. It is a community-driven platform for Mainstreet, a growing need and growing interest in the latest news, opinions, and research in the digital asset/blockchain technologies. All opinions expressed by the contributors are their own opinions and not necessarily those of the OTC platform. Platform to reach a massive global audience providing high-quality content support to lift content creators. Follow us on TWITTER: https://twitter.com/on_the_chain YouTube Channels: https://www.youtube.com/c/OnTheChainLIVEhttps://www.youtube.com/c/OnTheChain

  1. 1d ago

    XRP Is The Key To Money

    XRP may be becoming the key to something much bigger than payments. Ripple is challenging the idea that every regulated stablecoin is created equal. A money transmitter license, state trust charter, and federal prudential supervision each carry different reserve requirements, verification standards, and consequences if an issuer fails. As stablecoins become part of the financial system, the level of regulatory oversight behind them could determine which assets institutions are willing to trust. Clearpool is also expanding to the XRP Ledger, bringing institutional-ready credit and lending infrastructure directly to XRPL. The proposal includes migrating from CPOOL to CLEAR and recapitalizing the treasury to fund incentives, adoption, and the platform’s next phase of growth. Institutional credit remains largely untapped on XRPL, but Clearpool believes the opportunity is massive. At the same time, RippleX is working with Common Prefix to formally verify the XRP Ledger. This effort goes directly to the reliability and security institutions require before moving serious financial activity onchain. We are also looking at the XRPL validation stream, where UNL validators vote on the same ledger hash until consensus is reached and the ledger sequence advances. Ripple Treasury is pushing even deeper into the Office of the CFO with GSmart and what Ripple describes as Treasury-Native AI. Instead of placing AI beside treasury operations, Ripple is embedding intelligence directly into existing financial policies, data, workflows, and deterministic financial logic while keeping people responsible for the final decisions. Solana is also developing confidential transfers and batch functionality, reinforcing the institutional demand for privacy, scale, and controlled financial operations on public blockchain infrastructure. Tonight, Chip and Jeff connect all of it. Regulated stablecoins. Institutional credit. Formal verification. Treasury-native AI. Confidential transfers. Batch transactions. These are not isolated developments. They are pieces of the financial infrastructure being built for the next era of money. Please like, subscribe, and click the bell to be notified when the next video drops. 🔥 SUPPORT ON THE CHAIN ☕ Badassery Coffee https://badasserycoffee.com 🧊 Mint a Badass Yeti https://otc.one/mint 👕 OTC Merch https://otc.one/shop 🔔 Subscribe to On The Chain https://onthechain.io/subscribe/ ☕ Buy Us a Coffee https://buymeacoffee.com/onthechain FOLLOW ON THE CHAIN 🌐 Website https://onthechain.io 𝕏 On The Chain https://x.com/On_The_Chain 𝕏 Jeff https://x.com/Jeff_OnTheChain 𝕏 Chip https://x.com/stephenchip This is Badassery. Creators of Badassery, Badass Yetis, Badassery Coffee and On The Chain. #XRP #Ripple #XRPL #Stablecoins #InstitutionalFinance #DeFi #AI #Treasury #Blockchain #DigitalAssets #OnTheChain ⚠️ DISCLAIMER The information discussed on On The Chain is for educational and entertainment purposes only and should not be considered financial, investment, or legal advice. Jeff, Chip, and their guests may hold digital assets discussed during the show. Always do your own research and consult a qualified financial advisor before making any investment decisions. Views expressed are solely those of the hosts and their guests.

  2. 3d ago

    The fight over XRP just started!

    The fight over XRP just started! Please like, subscribe, and click the bell to be notified when the next video drops. 🔥 SUPPORT ON THE CHAIN ☕ Badassery Coffee https://badasserycoffee.com 🧊 Mint a Badass Yeti https://otc.one/mint 👕 OTC Merch https://otc.one/shop 🔔 Subscribe to On The Chain https://onthechain.io/subscribe/ ☕ Buy Us a Coffee https://buymeacoffee.com/onthechain FOLLOW ON THE CHAIN 🌐 Website https://onthechain.io 𝕏 On The Chain https://x.com/On_The_Chain 𝕏 Jeff https://x.com/Jeff_OnTheChain 𝕏 Chip https://x.com/stephenchip This is Badassery. Creators of On The Chain, Badass Yetis and Badassery Coffee. #XRP #Ripple #XRPL #RLUSD #Crypto #BIS #AI #Blockchain #DigitalAssets #OnTheChain ⚠️ DISCLAIMER – The information discussed on On The Chain is for educational and entertainment purposes only and should not be considered financial, investment, or legal advice. Jeff, Chip, and their guests may hold digital assets discussed during the show. Always do your own research and consult a qualified financial advisor before making any investment decisions. Views expressed are solely those of the hosts and their guests.

  3. Sep 5

    They Keep Choosing XRP

    They keep choosing XRP—and at this point, it’s getting harder to call it a coincidence. Brad Garlinghouse is inside the room as America pushes to become the crypto capital of the world. The Bank for International Settlements tested the XRP Ledger in a proof of concept for verifying official economic data. AI agents are already using XRP and RLUSD to purchase intelligence, research, forecasts, and digital services. Now the Florida Gators are putting XRP directly on the field at the Swamp. Different players. Different objectives. The same ledger keeps showing up. Meanwhile, a central bank spent months repositioning $11 billion in gold, Congress is walking away for the final two weeks of September, and the attacks against XRP are getting louder. Is this simply a collection of unrelated headlines—or are governments, institutions, developers, and major brands revealing what comes next before the market is ready to see it? Jeff and Chip connect the dots on XRP, Ripple, the BIS, AI-agent payments, RLUSD, American crypto policy, the Florida Gators partnership, and the growing backlash surrounding XRP. Drop your answer in the comments: Which signal matters most—the BIS, AI-agent payments, the White House, or XRP entering mainstream sports? Please like, subscribe, and click the bell to be notified when the next video drops. 🔥 SUPPORT ON THE CHAIN ☕ Badassery Coffee https://badasserycoffee.com 🧊 Mint a Badass Yeti https://otc.one/mint 👕 OTC Merch https://otc.one/shop 🔔 Subscribe to On The Chain https://onthechain.io/subscribe/ ☕ Buy Us a Coffee https://buymeacoffee.com/onthechain FOLLOW ON THE CHAIN 🌐 Website https://onthechain.io 𝕏 On The Chain https://x.com/On_The_Chain 𝕏 Jeff https://x.com/Jeff_OnTheChain 𝕏 Chip https://x.com/stephenchip This is Badassery. Creators of On The Chain, Badass Yetis and Badassery Coffee. #XRP #Ripple #XRPL #RLUSD #Crypto #BIS #AI #Blockchain #DigitalAssets #OnTheChain ⚠️ DISCLAIMER – The information discussed on On The Chain is for educational and entertainment purposes only and should not be considered financial, investment, or legal advice. Jeff, Chip, and their guests may hold digital assets discussed during the show. Always do your own research and consult a qualified financial advisor before making any investment decisions. Views expressed are solely those of the hosts and their guests.

  4. Sep 3

    XRP Just Became a MUCH BIGGER Problem

    XRP is getting harder to dismiss. We’re breaking down why the story around XRP is getting much bigger than payments alone. The onchain economy is accelerating. Institutional settlement is moving toward 24/7. Cross-border costs are collapsing. Credit and lending infrastructure is being built directly into the XRP Ledger. Batch transactions are getting security audits. Developers are being pushed toward XLS-65 and XLS-66. And the Bitwise XRP ETF has now crossed $500 million in assets under management. This is no longer one isolated XRP headline. The infrastructure is stacking. Payments. Tokenization. Trading. Lending. Credit. Institutional access. And the bigger that stack gets, the harder XRP becomes to ignore. Chip and Jeff break down: • Why Uphold says the new financial system is moving onchain • Why XRP and XRPL keep showing up in the institutional conversation • The new XRPL credit and lending rail • XLS-65 and XLS-66 • The upcoming XRPL lending hackathon • The latest Batch Transactions security audit • The Bitwise XRP ETF crossing $500M AUM • What all of this could mean for XRP adoption • Plus tonight’s biggest geopolitical stories from the U.S., Canada, the U.K. and beyond This one goes much deeper than price. The question is no longer whether XRP has a use case. The question is how much of the next financial system gets built around the rails XRP was designed to use. 🔥 SUPPORT ON THE CHAIN 🔥 ☕ BADASSERY COFFEE https://badasserycoffee.com 🪙 OTC MINT https://otc.one/mint 👕 OTC MERCH https://onthechain.shop 📩 SUBSCRIBE TO OTC https://onthechain.io/subscribe/ ☕ BUY US A COFFEE https://buymeacoffee.com/onthechain 🌐 ON THE CHAIN https://onthechain.io 🎙️ OTC PODCAST https://otc.one/podcast FOLLOW US ON X On The Chain: https://x.com/On_The_Chain Jeff: https://x.com/Jeff_OnTheChain Chip: https://x.com/stephenchip Please LIKE, SUBSCRIBE and hit the notification bell so you don’t miss the next live show. #XRP #XRPL #Ripple #Crypto ``` That **full Support On The Chain block** is the one I should be carrying into every OTC YouTube description.

  5. Aug 31

    Big Money Needs XRP For What's Next

    Ripple’s financial ecosystem is expanding fast — and the XRP Ledger is moving deeper into the infrastructure that could power the next generation of lending, liquidity, payments and institutional finance. Tonight, Chip and Jeff break down Ripple’s Lending Protocol V1.1 security review, Single Asset Vaults on XRPL, and how Ripple Custody, RLUSD, Ripple Payments, Ripple Prime and the XRP Ledger are starting to connect into something much bigger. We also get into what this means for XRP utility, institutional adoption, tokenized assets, settlement, liquidity and the future of finance. Then we shift into GEOPOLITICS and AROUND THE WORLD — Trump, Fetterman, universal healthcare, immigration, Buc-ee’s, Canada vs. Trump, Lake America, Mark Carney, Doug Ford, France and more. TOPICS COVERED • Ripple Lending Protocol V1.1 • Sherlock AI security review • XRPL Single Asset Vaults – XLS-65 • Ripple Custody • RLUSD • Ripple Payments • Ripple Prime • XRP Ledger tokenization • Institutional lending and liquidity • XRP utility and adoption • Trump and John Fetterman • Universal healthcare • Immigration • Buc-ee’s • Canada vs. Trump • Lake America • Mark Carney and Doug Ford • France politics 👇 SUPPORT ON THE CHAIN 👇 ☕ Badassery Coffee https://badasserycoffee.com 🪙 OTC Mint https://otc.one/mint 👕 OTC Merch https://onthechain.shop 🔔 Subscribe To OTC https://onthechain.io/subscribe/ ❤️ Help OTC Keep the Lights On https://ko-fi.com/onthechain 🌐 ON THE CHAIN Website: https://onthechain.io Podcast: https://otc.one/podcast FOLLOW ON THE CHAIN ON X On The Chain: @OnTheChainLive Jeff: @Jeff_OnTheChain Chip: @stephenchip #XRP #Ripple #XRPL #Crypto DISCLAIMER: The views and opinions expressed on On The Chain are for informational and entertainment purposes only and should not be considered financial, investment, legal or tax advice. Always do your own research and consult with a qualified professional before making financial decisions.

  6. Aug 29

    The Window to XRP Is Closing

    Ripple is moving deeper into institutional finance — and the window for XRP may be getting smaller. Ripple Prime now has more than $1 BILLION in regulatory net capital, 24/7 cross-margining, and a growing bridge between digital assets and traditional markets. What happens when the infrastructure gets built before the market fully understands what’s happening? We’re digging into: ⚡ Ripple Prime’s expansion across equities and digital assets ⚡ More than $1B in regulatory net capital ⚡ 24/7 institutional cross-margining ⚡ What prime brokerage looks like in the digital asset era ⚡ Ripple’s continued push into global payments ⚡ David Schwartz on how quickly transformative technology can accelerate ⚡ The latest geopolitical noise out of Washington ⚡ And what all of this could mean for XRP The infrastructure is being built. The institutions are moving. And the window may be closing faster than people realize. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SUPPORT ON THE CHAIN ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ☕ BADASSERY COFFEE Fuel your day with Badassery Coffee: https://badasserycoffee.com 🔥 OTC MERCH Rep On The Chain: https://badassery.io 🌐 ON THE CHAIN News, podcasts, videos and more: https://onthechain.io 🎵 CHIP’S MUSIC Listen to Stephen Chip on Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/stephen-chip/1448894579 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CONNECT WITH US ON X ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Jeff: @jeff_onthechain Chip: @stephenchip On The Chain: @On_The_Chain ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ DISCLAIMER: The information contained in this video is for educational and informational purposes only and should not be considered financial, investment, legal or tax advice. The views expressed are personal opinions based on our own research and analysis. Always conduct your own research and consult with a licensed professional before making financial decisions. Cryptocurrency and digital assets involve substantial risk and volatility. Never invest more than you can afford to lose. Past performance is not indicative of future results. #XRP #Ripple #XRPL #Crypto

  7. Aug 27

    BANKS CAN'T AVOID XRP

    The financial system is moving fast — and XRP keeps showing up exactly where the next phase of money is being built. Mastercard is sponsoring the XRP Ledger Hackathon in New York just ahead of Ripple Swell. At the same time, 39 U.S. state banking associations are launching the BankChain Alliance to explore tokenized deposits, stablecoins, and smart payments. Crypto-backed mortgages are moving into the mainstream. AI-driven finance is expanding on XRPL. Hedera is pushing blockchain directly into AI development tools. And Michael Saylor is still stacking Bitcoin at a scale almost nobody else can match. These are not isolated headlines. They point to the same thing: The line between traditional finance and digital assets is disappearing. And if XRP is already positioned inside the rails being built for payments, tokenization, stablecoins, and agentic finance... there may be NO GOING BACK. Tonight on On The Chain, Jeff and Chip break down: • Mastercard’s move into the XRP Ledger ecosystem • Why the XRPL Hackathon ahead of Ripple Swell matters • 39 state banking associations building blockchain infrastructure • Tokenized deposits, stablecoins, and smart payments • Crypto-backed mortgages moving into traditional finance • The rise of agentic finance on XRPL • Hedera, AI tools, and the emerging machine economy • Michael Saylor’s latest Bitcoin move • What all of this could mean for XRP and the broader crypto market SUPPORT ON THE CHAIN ☕ Badassery Coffee https://badasserycoffee.com 🧊 OTC Mint https://otc.one/mint 👕 OTC Merch https://onthechain.shop ❤️ Support OTC https://ko-fi.com/onthechain 🔔 Subscribe https://onthechain.io/subscribe/ 🌐 Website https://onthechain.io 🎙️ Podcast https://otc.one/podcast FOLLOW ON THE CHAIN On The Chain https://x.com/On_The_Chain Jeff https://x.com/Jeff_OnTheChain Chip https://x.com/stephenchip DISCLAIMER: This content is for informational and entertainment purposes only and should not be considered financial, legal, or investment advice. Always do your own research and consult with a qualified professional before making financial decisions. #XRP #Ripple #XRPL #Crypto 🎙️ New to streaming or looking to level up? Check out StreamYard and get $10 discount! 😍 https://streamyard.com/pal/d/5303388489646080

  8. Aug 24

    XRP JUST CROSSED THE LINE

    XRP just crossed a line — and there may be no going back. Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse joined the inaugural CFTC Innovation Advisory Committee alongside some of the biggest names in traditional finance — Nasdaq, CME Group, CBOE, NYSE, DTCC and more. For years, crypto fought to get a seat at the table. Now Wall Street, Washington and crypto are sitting in the same room. Meanwhile, millions of Americans own crypto, crypto-related economic activity continues to grow, and the line between traditional finance and digital assets is getting harder to see. Tonight, we break down what this shift could mean for XRP, Ripple and the future of crypto. PLUS — we get into the latest political and geopolitical stories, including the battle brewing in Seattle, Florida's dramatic political shift, U.S.–Canada trade negotiations and more. 🔥 XRP JUST CROSSED THE LINE 👍 LIKE 🔔 SUBSCRIBE 💬 DROP YOUR THOUGHTS IN THE COMMENTS ☕ SUPPORT Badassery Coffee https://badasserycoffee.com OTC Mint https://otc.one/mint OTC Merch https://onthechain.shop Support On The Chain on Ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/onthechain 🔗 ON THE CHAIN Website https://onthechain.io Subscribe https://onthechain.io/subscribe/ X https://x.com/On_The_Chain Jeff https://x.com/Jeff_OnTheChain Chip https://x.com/stephenchip ⚠️ DISCLAIMER The information contained in this video is for informational and entertainment purposes only and should not be considered financial, investment, legal, or tax advice. The opinions expressed are those of the hosts and guests and do not necessarily reflect the views of On The Chain. Always do your own research and consult with a qualified professional before making financial decisions. #XRP #Ripple #Crypto #Bitcoin 🎙️ New to streaming or looking to level up? Check out StreamYard and get $10 discount! 😍 https://streamyard.com/pal/d/5303388489646080

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