I’d like to say this is all extremely vindicating for ETH.
The only problem is that it’s even more vindicating for XRP.
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In 2021, after Bitcoin reached an all-time high, altcoins surged by 3281%...
If history repeats itself, altcoins will explode in just 7 days.
In 2021, I turned $519 into $4.3 million with the right altcoin...
Here are 6 low market cap altcoins that are expected to achieve a hundredfold increase today 🧵👇
#Airdrop #AirdropTutorial #AirdropThread #Airdrop #MemeCoin #Meme
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🧵The Day Inflation Died: How THORChain Killed Block Rewards Forever!
For years, THORChain paid you to secure the network, and inflation funded the system.
In 2025, that money printer got turned off.
But here’s how THORChain ended emissions and became sustainable, and why it’s so important for you🫵
Why Emissions?
Let's remember that THORChain originally launched with a fixed 500M $RUNE supply.
44% (~218M $RUNE) went to a Protocol Reserve, non-circulating, meant to fund block rewards for over a decade.
In the early days, swap fees were really low, and emissions were the incentive layer.
The Bootstrapping Era
The network needed bonded nodes + deep liquidity before it could generate a meaningful revenue. Block rewards started at ~25% APR, tapering toward 2% over time.
These emissions made it possible for THORChain to attract capital when fees were near zero.
Volume Explodes. Dynamics Shift.
By the end of 2024 and into early 2025, THORChain’s cross-chain infrastructure reached a point of real maturity. The protocol became more reliable, faster, and easier to integrate.
As a result, more wallets, DEX aggregators, and trading bots began routing swaps via .@THORChain, significantly increasing trading activity across chains.
This surge in usage led to a sharp increase in swap volume and fees. In December 2024, fees represented 48% of the rewards distributed to the network participants. And since then THORChain has very clearly been on its way to sustainability.
The Problem with Emissions
Despite this milestone, the emissions system was still running in the background, paying out rewards to participants.
But it created several problems:
1⃣ Continued to dilute RUNE holders by expanding the circulating supply.
2⃣Drained the Protocol Reserve - a finite pool of $RUNE set aside to fund emissions.
3⃣Subsidized yield artificially instead of allowing the protocol’s real usage to determine rewards.
In this environment, emissions were no longer necessary to attract participation and were becoming economically inefficient, draining resources while the protocol was already generating meaningful, sustainable fee-based revenue.
February 2025: Governance Makes the Call
Node operators voted to end block rewards permanently.
Protocol Reserve emissions → stopped forever
All yield now comes only from actual protocol usage
The money printer was turned off for good!
Immediate Impact
- Emissions have dropped to zero
- Reserve preserved for future use
- Node operators + LPs now earn only when the network is active
As a result, yield became earned, not subsidized!
What About Returns?
In May 2025:
- Node APR ~12%
- All from fees, no inflation
This is higher than many chains still paying inflation-based staking rewards.
THORChain offers predictability, sustainability, and competitive returns, thanks to @RujiraNetwork $XRP and every newly integrated chain.
This approach serves as a blueprint for future protocols: bootstrap with emissions, scale real usage, shut off inflation, and operate sustainably while aligning users and contributors with long-term protocol success.
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XRP price performance in USD
The current price of XRP is $3.4803. Over the last 24 hours, XRP has decreased by -3.27%. It currently has a circulating supply of 59,182,189,917 XRP and a maximum supply of 100,000,000,000 XRP, giving it a fully diluted market cap of $205.18B. At present, XRP holds the 3 position in market cap rankings. The XRP/USD price is updated in real-time.
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XRP is a digital asset that's native to the XRP Ledger — an open-source, permisionless and decentralized blockchain technology.
Legacy payment transfer solutions, such as SWIFT, take several business days to settle international fund transfers and charge high fees because it involves multiple banking partners. Ripple uses the XRP Ledger, an open-source blockchain network, to streamline global payment infrastructure and settle all XRP transactions, allowing businesses to send and receive cross-border payments in three to five seconds. XRP transactions are not only much faster than SWIFT or decentralized payment networks like Bitcoin, but they are much cheaper. To be more specific, XRP’s transaction fees cost only $0.0002.
Companies and financial institutions can use XRP to send real-time cross-border payments, source crypto liquidity from global crypto markets, and create their own central bank digital currency (CBDC).
While payment was the foundation of Ripple's operations in its early years, the protocol has gradually rebranded into a more robust ecosystem in recent years, owing to the explosion of decentralized applications. Today, Ripple provides an environment in which DeFi and NFT applications can thrive, in addition to enabling lightning-fast and cheap payments.
XRP is the native token used to facilitate transactions on the Ripple network.
How does Ripple work
There are three core components of the Ripple network:
RippleNet: RippleNet is a network of financial institutions, including global banks, that helps users send and receive payments on Ripple. Just as HTTPS provides a common protocol to send information across the web, RippleNet allows value transfer using a uniform set of rules called Ripple Transaction Protocol (RTXP).
Ripple: Ripple is the core platform powered by XRP Ledger (XRPL) and provides three features, namely the real-time gross settlement system (RTGS), currency exchange, and remittance transfers.
Gateways: Gateways are banks that act as trusted intermediaries between two transacting parties. These gateways are responsible for transferring funds in fiat and cryptocurrencies using the Ripple network.
What is the XRP Ledger
Blockchains like Bitcoin or Ethereum are decentralized and rely on trustless consensus mechanisms where users do not need to trust each other to send value. On the contrary, Ripple relies on a trust-based consensus mechanism using the XRP Ledger consensus protocol, where transactions are verified by trusted validators.
The XRP Ledger comprises servers that collect transactions from client applications, such as financial institutions, and processes them. Participants using the Ripple network choose a set of servers that participate in a consensus mechanism from a Unique Node List (UNL) maintained by Ripple. These servers are trusted to behave honestly to validate transactions. As long as 80 percent of servers on the UNL agree on a set of transactions, the transactions are verified. If a majority consensus is not achieved, the validators modify their proposals over several rounds until the UNL servers consider the transitions valid.
The XRP Ledger servers are operated by companies and financial institutions. Ripple, XRP Ledger Foundation, and Coil (a Ripple-funded platform) release lists of recommended validators based on metrics like past performance, verified identity, and IT policies.
XRP price and tokenomics
Ripple minted a hard-capped supply of 100 billion XRP at launch. Of these 100 billion XRP tokens, 20 percent were given to Ripple founders Chris Larsen and Jed McCaleb, 77.8 percent of XRP tokens were allocated to Ripple, and 0.2 percent were airdropped to users.
In 2017, Ripple sent 55 billion XRP tokens from its allocated supply to an escrow account. It was decided that the company would release a maximum of 1 billion XRP tokens per month to support Ripple's operations. The unused funds are sent back to the escrow account by the end of each month. Messari suggests that nearly 300 million XRP from the escrow account enter circulation each month. Ripple reportedly holds 40.7 billion XRP tokens in escrow as of February 2024. Despite the large volume of tokens being moved at regular intervals, the monthly release hasn't caused instability for XRP prices.
All XRP tokens were pre-mined by Ripple at launch. As a result, you cannot mine new XRP tokens. To ease inflation, Ripple has implemented a deflationary mechanism for XRP wherein all the fees collected on the network are burned.
XRP tokens enter circulation when the tokens are sold in the open market. Ripple cannot sell more than 0.25 percent of the average daily volume of crypto exchanges from their reserves during programmatic sales. XRP sales also come from direct selling by institutions partnering with Ripple.
The XRP price reached its all-time high of $3.84 on January 4, 2018. The token has a maximum supply of 100,000,000,000 XRP, and a circulating supply of 55.9 billion as of August 2024.
About the founders
Ryan Fugger founded a decentralized platform for creating and managing credit lines called RipplePay in 2004, which would later become Ripple. In 2011, Jed McCaleb, with a team of developers, started working on a new consensus mechanism for digital currencies, which was later called XRP Ledger. McCaleb was joined by Chris Larsen, David Schwartz, and Arthur Britto.
A year after, Jed McCaleb and Chris Larsen reached out to Ryan Fugger to acquire RipplePay, and Ryan decided to hand over the project to them. After integrating RipplePay, Larsen, and McCaleb launched Opencoin (now Ripple Labs) in September 2012.
Ripple Labs released the XRP cryptocurrency in 2012 and raised over $7.5 million in a Series A funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz in 2013 to fund the development of the Ripple project. Since then, be it implementing stricter anti-money laundering policies or obtaining a BitLicense from the State of New York, Ripple has focused on gaining the trust of financial institutions to join their network and process payments.
Brad Garlinghouse, who joined as Ripple's first Chief Operating Officer in 2015, was appointed the company's Chief Executive Officer at the start of 2017, replacing Larsen. Garlinghouse continues to hold the position of Ripple CEO today.
Ripple highlights
Ripple is popular among businesses due to the numerous business opportunities it offers. Santander adopted Ripple's technology for the launch of One Pay FX in 2016. The service aimed to provide faster and more cost-effective cross-border payments to clients. In the same year, Ripple launched a pilot program with Standard Chartered to bring its fast cross-border payment services to the lender's customers.
After adding XRP support in 2018, Wirex, a digital payments platform that supports transactions in cryptocurrency, received 12 million in XRP deposits. Additionally, Ripple gained visibility and credibility in the cryptocurrency industry in 2019. The Swiss SIX exchange launched an XRP ETP (exchange-traded product) in April, making it easier for traders to gain exposure to XRP. Nasdaq also added XRP to its cryptocurrency indexes, which helped to increase awareness and adoption of the cryptocurrency. Furthermore, Boerse Stuttgart, the second-largest stock exchange in Germany, launched XRP exchange-traded notes. Ripple announced at the end of 2019 that it had raised $200 million from Tetragon, SBI Holdings, and Route 66 Ventures.
In April 2024, Ripple announced plans to launch a U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoin that would compete with current leading stablecoins USDT and USDC, from Tether and Circle, respectively. Ripple has said the stablecoin will be backed 1-to-1 by equivalent assets including cash, U.S. dollar deposits, and government bonds. The stablecoin will initially be launched in the U.S.
Ripple and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Ripple previously faced legal challenges from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The SEC alleged that XRP is a security subject to federal securities laws, while Ripple argued that XRP is a currency and, therefore, not subject to the same regulations.
A significant legal milestone was achieved in the cryptocurrency industry during July 2023 as U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres ruled that Ripple Labs Inc did not violate federal securities law by selling its XRP token on public exchanges. This ruling marks the first victory for a cryptocurrency company in a case brought against the SEC.
This outcome could have far-reaching implications for the broader cryptocurrency market, as it sheds light on the regulatory landscape surrounding digital assets and token sales.
Number of posts mentioning a token in the last 24h. This can help gauge the level of interest surrounding this token.
Contributors
Number of individuals posting about a token in the last 24h. A higher number of contributors can suggest improved token performance.
Interactions
Sum of socially-driven online engagement in the last 24h, such as likes, comments, and reposts. High engagement levels can indicate strong interest in a token.
Sentiment
Percentage score reflecting post sentiment in the last 24h. A high percentage score correlates with positive sentiment and can indicate improved market performance.
Volume rank
Volume refers to post volume in the last 24h. A higher volume ranking reflects a token’s favored position relative to other tokens.
In the last 24 hours, there have been 61K new posts about XRP, driven by 18K contributors, and total online engagement reached 32M social interactions. The sentiment score for XRP currently stands at 78%. Compared to all cryptocurrencies, post volume for XRP currently ranks at 236. Keep an eye on changes to social metrics as they can be key indicators of the influence and reach of XRP.
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