The biggest news in finance you’ll read today: The digital euro has entered the capital markets. Pontes is live. The Eurosystem’s (@ecb) new settlement service connects DLT-based market infrastructure with central bank money. Axiology is one of four market infrastructures participating in the launch, alongside Cashlink, SWIAT and @Clearstream. Learn more:

NEWS: Here comes the crypto industry’s big spending against Democrats. Fairshake is going to spend $30 million against Sherrod Brown in Ohio’s Senate race. It’s payback after Senate Dems torpedoed the CLARITY Act.

A major milestone for institutional digital assets in Africa! We’re proud to partner with @Absa_CIB Corporate and Investment Banking on the launch of Absa Digital Asset Custody. By leveraging @Ripple’s custody technology, Absa is setting a new benchmark for secure, compliant, and bank-grade digital asset management on the continent. Congratulations to the Absa team on bringing this digital-first solution to market.

The future of non-physical media is tokenized NFT's of the software which becomes TRUE digital ownership by the holder of the token. Just like a crypto asset, you can store it wherever you like and resell it to someone else anywhere in the world.

🚨 Ripple's Chris Larsen has put $10M+ into fighting California's billionaire tax, and Ripple itself matched $5M Prop 40 would hit him for roughly $420M. Guess $10M is cheaper than $420M

It’s now clear that, after announcing the end of physical game discs in 2028, Sony wants a fully digital future where you don’t own what you buy, you just simply rent a license which can be removed when they want A few days ago, Sony removed hundreds of movies from people’s accounts even though they had paid for them. This is what will happen one day to your games, they will remove whatever they want. Of course, I don’t expect games to become cheaper. Even though they will save money by no longer producing discs, cases, printed materials, or shipping physical copies, they will charge the same or more. This is the future they’re want, one where you own nothing and be happy. Physical games will be soon become a thing of the past. Keep all your physical games, don’t sell them, they might become real treasures one day.

Gold and oil ran the 20th century. Both are moving on-chain. $XAUa: tokenized gold on the $XRP Ledger, in your own wallet. $JMWH: 1 token = 1 MWh of real energy $1.76B on #XRPL#, half the ledger's RWAs. Hard assets. Hard ledger. Trade $XAUa:

—DAY 64— The end of the week brought in over 10Million XRP in AUM with both Bitwise and Franklin Templeton combined. The ETF’s continue their streak of taking XRP off the market.

My game, Wych Ring releases in 10 Days. World Premiere of the first 10 Minutes of the game. A Sci-Fi military action game in a mix of Fallout and Dark Souls. Check out the Steam Link below for more! 😎