Maybe someday soon it will become a prosperous 51st state.

Let's make it the 51st state, and instead of a president, we'll have an election for governor.

We are very excited to announce that we launched the NASDAQ 100 with Stellar. So this is the first time that there's an on-chain DeFi strategy for the NASDAQ 100.

What that means is that anyone within the Stellar ecosystem can access one of the best and most well known tech indices.

We are unique in that we're building this strategy fully natively on-chain. So we're not just wrapping an ETF or buying the ETF, we're actually creating a new fund structure.

“We’re moving past the initial issuance of assets onchain – now, it’s all about making these tokenized assets usable for payments and collateral across financial markets,” — said Monica Long, President of Ripple.

“With BNY, we’re connecting the necessary components of financial infrastructure on the XRP Ledger so institutions can move from holding digital assets to using them within capital markets and trade finance seamlessly.” 🚀

“We’ve spent years building a platform that gives businesses more information and control over their working capital. The next opportunity is to make the financial infrastructure behind our marketplace as efficient and connected as the experience we’ve created for customers,” — said Ragui Selwanes, President & COO Americas at C2FO.

“I think with Russia, we’re making a lot of progress with Russia-Ukraine,” — Trump said.

“There’ll be a meeting set up here soon,” — he added, “with President Putin and President Zelenskyy.”

"Securitize has helped establish tokenization as a practical solution for major financial institutions,” — said Denelle Dixon, CEO and Executive Director of the SDF.

“We're excited to work together to expand the infrastructure available to asset managers and support the next generation of tokenized financial products on Stellar." 🚀

"We will keep our military umbrella, but I think more and more it's becoming a technology umbrella," — Bessent said.

"I think that digital assets are going to be no different, and we are going to win in the digital asset stack, and that's gonna continue to fortify the [U.S.] dollar," — he said.

"Private markets have engineered nearly every layer of their infrastructure except one: liquidity," — said Antonio Vitti, CEO and Co-Founder of Pontoro.

"Tokenization has given private assets better rails. A market also needs capital, a price, and a mechanism for managing that capital as conditions change. That is the missing layer the ALP is designed to provide. 🚀

With a group of institutions contributing across the investment and operating stack, we can now move that idea from architecture to a live pilot."

Elon Musk is an industrial genius. He has more than 5,000 spacecraft in orbit. We are in close contact with our American partners, including Mr. Musk.

It is important to maintain discipline and order in orbit. Both we and our American partners value this, and despite political issues, we work closely together in this field.

Graham Rodford, CEO and co-founder of Archax, comments:

“Institutions don’t run on one currency, and their collateral shouldn’t either. With the launch of €GOVY, a treasurer will be able to hold tokenised government exposure in dollars, sterling and euros – earning yield and ready to deploy at any hour of any day.

Launching on the Stellar network, at Meridian, also reflects how important the network has been to GOVY from day one.” 🚀