Nick Chanas 👀

It’s actually crazy how X makes you believe the entire world is falling apart every single day. Another war, another crisis, another headline about how we’re all fucked. Then you go outside and realize everyone is just living their normal lives, going to work, eating at restaurants and enjoying themselves. Sometimes you just need to close X, stop consuming all this fear and go enjoy your life. The algorithm makes you believe that everything is negative and bad.

A licensed central securities depository is recording securities ownership on a public blockchain for the first time — on the XRP Ledger. 🇧🇷 CSD BR is partnering with Ripple to bring Brazil's regulated capital markets onchain, starting with BTG Pactual fund shares, secured by Ripple Custody. ripple.com/ripple-press/csdb…

90% of X: - Putin is great - EU is evil - Elon is all-knowing - Hitler was a socialist - I hate immigrants - No vaccination - Greenland & Canada are US states - Russia controls Europe - There is no extreme right - I’m not a fascist - I love guns What did I miss?

“It is all Biden's fault” 🔸Gas was $3.12 per gallon when Biden left office. It is $4.33 today. 🔸Diesel was $3.63 a gallon when Biden left office. It is $6.27 today. 🔸America was not at war when Biden left office. We are at war with Iran today. 🔸Inflation for 2024 was 2.9%. It is 3.4% today. 🔸Wage gains for 2024 were 3.9%. Today, 3.1%. 🔸Real Wage Gains were +1.0% in 2024. Today, they are -0.3%. 🔸GDP growth was 2.8% in 2024. In the second quarter of 2026, it was 1.5%. 🔸The number of uninsured Americans decreased by almost 1 million over Biden's term. It has increased by 3 million since he left office. 🔸Home electricity prices have risen 12% since Biden left office. 🔸The native-born employment rate has decreased by ~1.7% since December 2024—the opposite of what a big deportation effort was supposed to do. You can't blame the last administration for everything bad happening 20 months into a new administration that enacted tariffs, started a war, and kicked people off their healthcare to give more tax breaks to corporations and billionaires.

#HappyFriday and #GoodMorning world! #Texas #Oil #Energy #OOTT

"Surrender! Surrender! Surrender!"

Still a classic, no doubt:

NEW: @Mastercard expands settlement to support regulated stablecoins including $USDC, $RLUSD and $PYUSD across Ethereum, Solana, Base, Arbitrum and XRPL.

Enertoken is live ⚡️ $800M+ in energy assets tokenized on blockchain — one of the largest RWA projects in the world. Built by Justoken in partnership with YPF Luz on the XRP Ledger — a public blockchain purpose-built for real-world asset tokenization. 🧵 1/2

I built a 'proper' CLI for XRPL, finally. It’s wild that after 10+ years, the XRP Ledger still hasn't had a proper, developer-first CLI. Power users have been stuck writing custom scripts for basic tasks. Until now. Now there's xrpl-cli-ng. It brings everything from wallet management, standard payments to DIDs and Multi-Purpose Tokens into a single terminal interface. In the age of AI agents, a robust CLI is more critical than ever. Agents don't need shiny buttons; they just need a bridge to the ledger. xrpl-cli-ng is that bridge. I'm planning to add xrpl-cli-ng skills so that agents can use the CLI properly. The software is currently in Alpha. Use with extreme caution on mainnet (I see some AMM tests are failing), if you want to. github.com/9oelM/xrpl-cli-ng npmjs.com/package/xrpl-cli-n… Personally, it has been the first large-scale project where I used @claudeai and @ryancarson's Ralph for 99% of the things. Doesn't mean it's an AI slop. So far the repository has 799 tests, most of which are E2E tests that cover the actual functionalities. Will share more insights on AI-centric development later too. Let's go XRPL

Replacement tariffs are dubious. White House claims section 122 authority due to a Balance of Payment Deficit and cited our Trade Deficit. But even his own lawyers already argued in court that a "Trade Deficit is a distinct concept from a Balance of Payments deficit."

Unsurprisingly, Trump's immigration crackdown is still not delivering labor market improvements for the US-born Over the last year, native-born unemployment is up from 4.3% to 4.7% while native-born employment has decreased

As @MIT has shown, @JoeBiden’s most lasting impact will be that of driving up federal spending to the point where it accounted for over 40% of the 2022 inflation surge, leading to the biggest cost of living increase in four decades. Thanks to @POTUS, last year’s calendar year deficit fell sharply, from nearly 7% of GDP in 2024 to just 5.4% in 2025.