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By Bruce Buterin
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The Stellar Partnership That Lit the Fuse. What made the panic worse was the timing. Right around the same moment the screenshots were…
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$900 Million Gone on a Misunderstanding. The scale of the sell-off is worth sitting with for a second.
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What the DTCC Actually Wants. The DTCC's longer-term strategy seems focused on building infrastructure that can work across…
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XRP holders got spooked. A misread update from the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation set off a sell-off that wiped out $900 million in weekly realized losses — the worst…
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The panic started with screenshots. Someone grabbed images of DTCC's collateral eligibility lists, stripped out all context, and posted them across social media.
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The DTCC's collateral eligibility lists are operational tools. They tell clearing members which assets can be posted as collateral inside DTCC's own clearing and margin systems.
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The absence of XRP from those lists got read as a death sentence. It wasn't.
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What made the panic worse was the timing. Right around the same moment the screenshots were spreading, news broke that the DTCC had entered a partnership with the Stellar…
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That's not what happened. The DTCC's approach to digital assets has been chain-agnostic — it's not betting on one blockchain over another.
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But nuance doesn't travel well on social media. Fear does. And the fear moved fast.
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See also: Ripples OCC Bank Charter Win Puts XRPs $25 Price Bet in Focus
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The scale of the sell-off is worth sitting with for a second. Nine hundred million dollars in realized losses in a single week.
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And it was basically built on nothing. A decontextualized screenshot. A misread partnership announcement. No official clarification came quickly enough to stop the bleeding.
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That last part matters. When misinformation spreads this fast in crypto markets, the window for correction is short.
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What's clear is that the absence of an immediate, plain-language statement left a vacuum. Vacuums in crypto get filled with speculation, and speculation in crypto moves prices.
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