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JAPANESE BANKS CONFIRM XRP SETTLES 60% CHEAPER THAN SWIFT Major Japanese financial institutions validate $XRP cross-border payments complete in under 4 seconds at 60% lower cost than traditional SWIFT transfers. Game-changing efficiency for international banking.

🚨 CRYPTO: FLARE PROPOSES PROTOCOL-LEVEL MEV CAPTURE AND 40% INFLATION CUT IN FLR TOKENOMICS OVERHAUL @FlareNetworks published a governance proposal to capture maximal extractable value at the protocol level and redirect it from external searchers and builders to the network itself. The plan would make Flare one of the first Layer 1 blockchains to capture MEV natively rather than letting it flow to specialized third-party actors. Annual $FLR inflation would drop from 5% to 3% and the hard cap would fall from 5 billion to 3 billion tokens per year. The base gas fee would increase 20-fold from 60 gwei to 1,200 gwei, raising estimated annual burn from 7.5 million FLR to 300 million, while standard transactions would still cost a fraction of a cent. The proposal creates the Flare Income Reinvestment Entity to collect protocol revenue from attestation fees, FAsset and Smart Account fees, confidential compute fees and captured MEV. FIRE's mandate is reducing FLR supply through open-market buybacks and burns.

🚨UPDATE: RIPPLE TO HOST XRP-TOKYO 2026 ON APRIL 7 @Ripple is set to host XRP-Tokyo 2026 in Japan on April 7, 2026, organized by XRPL Japan. The conference will bring together senior Ripple executives including Christina Chan, Tatsuya Kohrogi, and Markus Infanger as keynote speakers. The event centers on $XRP's expanding role in institutional adoption, RWA tokenization, and DeFi. Representatives from SBI Ripple Asia, A16z Crypto, Evernorth, and Securitize Japan are also confirmed to attend. Japan remains one of Ripple's most strategically vital markets, backed by a long-standing partnership with SBI Holdings.

🤝JUST IN: CONVERA PARTNERS WITH RIPPLE FOR STABLECOIN-POWERED GLOBAL PAYMENTS Convera is teaming up with @Ripple to roll out stablecoin-enabled cross-border payments for businesses. The partnership combines Convera’s global FX network with Ripple’s blockchain infrastructure to deliver faster and more reliable international transactions. It introduces a “stablecoin sandwich” model, using fiat on both ends with stablecoins handling settlement in between. The move targets regions where traditional payment rails are slow or inefficient.

🚨UPDATE: DELOITTE VERIFIES RIPPLE'S $RLUSD IS FULLY BACKED WITH $1.57B IN RESERVES @Deloitte Accounting firm has completed an independent verification confirming @Ripple's $RLUSD stablecoin is fully backed, with $1.57B in liquid reserves against 1.49B units in circulation as of February 27. The Big Four attestation gives $RLUSD institutional-grade credibility at a critical moment in the stablecoin wars. $RLUSD is overcollateralized at approximately 105% backing.

🚨UPDATE: XRP LEDGER MOVES TOWARD QUANTUM-RESISTANT SECURITY A recent Google research report highlighted $XRP Ledger’s progress, noting its deployment of post-quantum ML-DSA signatures. This could help defend against future quantum attacks. Testing is currently live on an AlphaNet instance. Quantum vulnerability remains a key industry concern. Per reports, few blockchains have taken concrete steps so far.