Now Playing
CLARITY Act's 5-Week Clock, XRPL Agentic Payments & ETF Inflows Stall
Audio is available on Spreaker — see link below.
XRP crypto news: the CLARITY Act faces a five-week Senate window as an ethics trap and law enforcement disputes threaten to push passage to 2027. Plus, XRPL launches agentic payments, clears a Halborn re-audit, and ETF inflows hit $10.6M with price unmoved.
Audio is available on Spreaker — see link below.
The CLARITY Act is sitting on the Senate floor calendar, and the window to pass it may be five weeks wide. That's the clearest signal to take from the last twenty-four hours.
Layered underneath the ethics fight is a second unresolved problem. A coalition of four law enforcement groups sent a formal letter on June twenty-third reasserting concerns about Section six-oh-four of the bill, also known as the Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act.
Away from Washington, the XRP Ledger recorded two meaningful operational milestones in the last day. T54 deployed the x402 agentic payment protocol live on the ledger.
That second milestone: the XRP Ledger Lending Protocol passed a rigorous Halborn re-audit with zero critical or high-severity vulnerabilities. Every issue flagged in the twenty twenty-five review has been resolved.
On the institutional capital side, XRP ETF inflows resumed last week. Franklin's XRPZ added six point six nine million dollars, Bitwise added three point nine seven million, bringing cumulative holdings to four hundred and six million and four hundred and seventy-six million respectively.
The stablecoin yield dispute adds one more layer. Jamie Dimon has pledged continued resistance to stablecoin reward structures, arguing the current compromise doesn't adequately protect bank deposits from yield competition.
Chapter summary auto-generated from the verified script. Listen to the full episode for the complete content.