New York, the night before Swell. A subway train rolls into the station wrapped head to toe in black, with the XRP logo on the side. And look at the route on the window. Grand Central to Times Square. Of every line in the city, it runs the shuttle between the old rail cathedral and the square where Ripple's billboard told the world it has a radical mindset in business casual. The New York subway opened in 1904. Steel on steel, timetables, signals, a system older than the Federal Reserve itself. The most famous old rails on the planet. And now the new rails are riding on top of them. That's the whole story of this industry in one frame. Nobody tore the old tracks up. Nobody blew up the station. The new system just climbed aboard the old one and started wearing it. Remember the Consurgimus artwork. A dead telephone pole leaning against the cave wall, wires cut. The old rails, already down. Three days ago a castle gate opened with So it begins carved across the doors. Tonight it's FuzzyCon in New York, under a full moon. Tomorrow Swell opens at Hudson Yards, a neighbourhood built on top of an old railyard. And today the subway is painted in our colours. Check the number on the car while you're at it. 1947. The year Franklin Templeton was founded. The same Franklin Templeton that dropped $150 million onto the XRP Ledger last week. Probably nothing. Just a train. But I've watched the old rails carry this city for over a hundred years, and I've never seen them look this good. All aboard. 🚇🐻