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It’s been a long time coming, but I think we are on the cusp of Polysign revealing what they've been up to for the past three years. We got confirmation December of last year that Polysign was in early Beta and would be going live in 2020. Also, it looks like there are design changes in order with respects to the webpage. Most of us know Polysign to be a digital asset custodial service/infrastructure platform as David’s answer to a question he fielded from a student at the University of Texas indicates. Going back a few years, we had our first indication, at the end of 2017, that Ripple would be taking the much-needed steps to begin building the necessary “market infrastructure” (i.e. custody and financial hedging instruments) needed to entice more institutional participation. According to Ripple this “market infrastructure” is needed to grow/stabilize the crypto markets overall but more importantly, to help with XRP. Miguel Vias, Head of XRP Markets commented in the last paragraph of Ripple’s Q4 XRP Markets Report for 2017: “While customers can use XRP for on-demand liquidity through xRapid, we want to build the necessary markets infrastructure for eventual direct usage of XRP by financial institutions. In Q1, we’ll begin work towards the launch of institutional hedging instruments and custody solutions. Both of these market components are important to institutional adoption and thus are important components of our 2018 roadmap.” On a Credit Suisse panel discussion (03:20 – 05:07), Miguel Vias alluded to the fact that you can’t build a vibrant crypto ecosystem with institutional players (i.e. hedge funds & investment banks) without first solving for custody or the safeguarding of these digital/crypto assets. Once you do this, you allow for the development of prime brokerage firms, lending, and hedging instruments (i.e. Derivatives, Options, Futures, ETFs, etc). Just recently, I happen to stumble upon a couple of interesting Tweets from @Arturo_P_A, Tweet One from February and Tweet Two from yesterday. In the first, @Arturo_P_A offers his opinions regarding the synergistic relationship he believes will develop between Ripple and Polysign. In particular, around on-boarding ODL-based exchanges, conflict-of-interest around XRP custody for these ODL exchanges and Ripple, and new use cases. What really piqued my interest is what @Arturo_P_A reveals in the second Tweet. It looks as if we have confirmation of one of Polysign’s first customers or maybe a subsidiary of Polysign, Standard Custody & Trust Company. It appears that Polysign has submitted a request for a custodial charter license in New York that was still pending as of February 6th 2020. Assuming that Standard Custody will, in some way, shape, form, or fashion, have some affiliation with Ripple it made me think about a couple of @KarmaCoverage Medium posts: What could xPool be? An attempted guess How xPool may work? An attempted guess It seems to me that Ripple now have the necessary foundational infrastructure in place to get escape velocity needed to truly execute their IoV vision: RippleNet - for the transference of value Interledger Protocol - for seamless connectivity and interoperability between di-separate traditional financial/blockchain-based systems/platforms Codius – for agnostic smart contract development for DeFi products Polysign – digital asset custody.

Blog URL: https://coil.com/p/Hodor/Big-Numbers-Big-Money/GlUQMw5IS The market for XRP involves numbers that require scientific notation! In today's blog, I talk about the size of XRP's use cases, and discuss all the latest news to impact XRP, including updates to @coil and @cinnamon: 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐁𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐍𝐞𝐰𝐬: CME is planning on implementing options along with their Bitcoin futures. 𝐑𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐍𝐞𝐰𝐬: The company's corporate website undergoes a RippleNet-centric makeover, revealing two new customers in the meantime; KPMG chooses to highlight quotes from Marcus Treacher in their latest payments research; Ripple files a motion to dismiss a lawsuit; InstaReM expands into Canada; @hmatejx releases some of his latest research into xRapid volumes; and Nik Bougalis explores whether there's any serious concern posed by quantum computing. 𝐂𝐨𝐢𝐥 𝐍𝐞𝐰𝐬: Coil adds a handy search to help users filter through their site's content; Cinnamon adds a feedback feature to its videos; and I share my latest Coil reading list. 𝐗𝐑𝐏 𝐍𝐞𝐰𝐬: I share my secret techniques for searching through Twitter; and an XRP Community member's artwork is starting to get noticed. I hope you enjoy the read: Please feel free to share my blog with a friend or share it on any other platform - and thanks for doing so! My blog announcement links on other platforms: Twitter Reddit r/Ripple Reddit r/CryptoCurrency Reddit r/CryptoMarkets Reddit r/xrp Reddit r/RippleTalk Reddit r/alternativecoin Reddit r/CoilCommunity Bitcointalk - alt coin sub forum Bitcointalk - XRP speculation thread

As if this space didn't have enough problems already: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-regulators-demand-trading-data-from-bitcoin-exchanges-in-manipulation-probe-2018-06-08 I remember when the first BTC futures contract expired, how BTC's price just happen to take a dive a day or two before that. Fishy stuff? - maybe. The BTC contracts are settled in cash, so one possible way to game the system I suppose is to buy BTC prior to expiration gradually, increase the price, then sell it as price is doing good, and then dump most of it shortly prior to expiration, then when contract(s) expire you cash them out, so you "win twice", or if too much capital is required to move the price of BTC by buying it, you just make it look like the price went down (on exchanges if that's even possible) so you can at least cash out on the BTC futures contract(s) without having to buy BTC in the first place. There are different possible ways to game the system, but I don't know how they would do it...BTC has high marketcap and I don't know if one exchange, even a big one, has power to manipulate the price to that extent, and even if they were able to, the manipulation might be obvious.

https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@supercrypto1/4th-dimension-bitcoin-manipulation-cartel-price-suppression-is-the-goal Could all be conspiracy theorist illuminati BS, but all theories have a basis in reality. it also strengthens our need to be unpegged from BTC.

Here is an article -> https://www.coindesk.com/ripples-xrp-just-might-next-big-crypto-futures-market/ Could it be, that XRP was shorted just like BTC, and that the price is a result of BTC chain and the futures? Is Ripple Futures good or bad for XRP?

To improve XRP’s adoption for cross-border payments, the price of the digital asset should be stable as much as possible. Ripple Lab Inc. should evaluate to promote a sort of Digital Asset Derivatives Market, with XRP as underlying entity, in order to insure against price movement during the payment transaction. With double effect: more opportunity for liquidity and speculation, from one side, and more assurance and confidence for Bank and Financial Institutions.

In the coming weeks, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange plans to start listing bitcoin futures, here is an interesting article of Gillian Tett from the Financial Times about how the civilazion of Bitcoin in the financial market could become a real problem for this cryptocurrency. https://www.ft.com/content/4bbf1ef6-ca4a-11e7-ab18-7a9fb7d6163e And

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