{"id":55539,"date":"2025-10-29T15:16:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T15:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=55539"},"modified":"2025-10-29T15:16:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T15:16:30","slug":"this-is-9-11-for-xrp-claims-solana-developer-in-viral-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=55539","title":{"rendered":"\u2018This Is 9\/11 For XRP,\u2019 Claims Solana Developer In Viral Post"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Western Union has chosen Solana as the exclusive blockchain for its forthcoming US dollar\u2013pegged stablecoin and a broader \u201cDigital Asset Network,\u201d a decision that immediately ricocheted through crypto social media and reignited long-running tribal feuds between XRP and Solana partisans. In an X post on Tuesday, Solana\u2019s official account declared, \u201cIt\u2019s official: @WesternUnion, the world\u2019s largest money transfer business, is building exclusively on Solana,\u201d pairing the claim with a launch reel featuring CEO Devin McGranahan.<\/p>\n

Western Union\u2019s plan centers on a dollar-backed token\u2014 dubbed the US Dollar Payment Token (USDPT)\u2014with issuance by Anchorage Digital Bank and an initial rollout targeted for 2026. The initiative is part of a multi-pronged modernization effort that includes on- and off-ramps to cash via Western Union\u2019s retail footprint and a settlement system designed to cut cost and latency in cross-border flows.<\/p>\n

McGranahan framed the move as a continuation of the firm\u2019s 175-year arc of adopting new rails to connect senders and recipients: \u201cSo for 175 years, we\u2019ve been connecting people with technology, and we\u2019ve been using that technology to move money. This is the next evolution, moving to digital assets and the ability to move money seamlessly, cost-effectively and rapidly everywhere around the world, using the infrastructure and the scale we already have with modern blockchain technology.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cWe think this is the next evolution, not just in our history, but in how remittances happen around the world.\u201d He added that after surveying \u201cmost of the other alternatives,\u201d Western Union concluded \u201cfor an institutional use case like ours, the Solana blockchain was the right choice for us.\u201d<\/p>\n

9\/11 For XRP?<\/h2>\n

The corporate positioning\u2014\u201cexclusively on Solana,\u201d per the Solana account\u2014was enough to trigger a sharp, if largely rhetorical, response cycle. Mert Mumtaz, CEO of Solana infrastructure provider Helius, posted<\/a> the most incendiary soundbite, writing, \u201cthis is 9\/11 for xrp mfers,\u201d a line that instantly became the day\u2019s headline and flashpoint for the XRP community.<\/p>\n

Beyond the viral taunt, the market-structure question raised by Western Union<\/a>\u2019s move is straightforward: does a first-party, dollar-denominated instrument running on a high-throughput public chain obviate the need for a non-sovereign bridge asset like XRP in retail remittance corridors?<\/p>\n

Community member nietzbux (@nietzbux) replied via X: \u201dRipple partnered with Moneygram 6 years ago and it ended after the lawsuit<\/a>. Western Union issuing a single USD stable coin on Solana is a nice adoption, but mostly a lukewarm event in today\u2019s world of mass adoption.\u201d<\/p>\n

He criticized Solana\u2019s messaging for making \u201cyour PR wins about another coin,\u201d adding \u201cYou have to really be punching up to make your own PR release about another coin. All this has done is reveal the immense insecurities of SOL supporters including their official account. Eric Trump said to end tribalism \u2013 but here we are, still getting hate on a pretty mundane Western Union stable coin announcement.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another account Charting Guy (@ChartingGuy) tried to disentangle product categories entirely: \u201cA lot of uneducated people saying this is bad for XRP and invalidates its use case. Guys, stablecoins<\/a> have been around a long time lol. XRP\u2019s use case is much different than stablecoins. Maybe read up on what the xrp ledger actually does & how xrp functions. This means nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n

At press time, XRP traded at $2.629.<\/p>\n

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Western Union has chosen Solana as the exclusive blockchain for its forthcoming US dollar\u2013pegged stablecoin and a broader \u201cDigital Asset Network,\u201d a decision that immediately ricocheted through crypto social media and reignited long-running tribal feuds between XRP and Solana partisans. In an X post on Tuesday, Solana\u2019s official account declared, \u201cIt\u2019s official: @WesternUnion, the world\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-55539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}