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Ripple's $2.7M PAC Bet, ETF Zero Inflows & the RLUSD Bypass Risk
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XRP is down 8% on the week while Ripple pours $2.7 million into House campaigns and RLUSD expands to 190 countries — and none of it is moving the token. Today's briefing unpacks the institutional paradox widening between Ripple's infrastructure ambitions and XRP's eroding market share.
Audio is available on Spreaker — see link below.
Ripple just committed two-point-seven million dollars to House campaigns through Fairshake PACs, and XRP is sitting at one dollar thirty-eight, down more than eight percent on the week. That tension is the whole story right now.
The Senate deadlock matters more than the House spending does. If the bill doesn't get through before the midterm window closes, the next realistic shot at passage could be twenty-thirty.
The institutional access picture has never looked broader. U.S. XRP ETFs are live.
On price, XRP has lost market share from five percent to three percent over the past twelve months. It's fallen fifty-eight percent from its July twenty-twenty-five peak.
One piece of clean news. The XRP Ledger Foundation confirmed this week that an emergency patch for an integer overflow vulnerability, a bug that had existed since twenty-fifteen, posed zero actual risk to token supply.
There's one more signal worth tracking. Binance XRP futures open interest just hit an eight-month high of five hundred eleven million dollars while spot prices are falling.
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