Looking Back at the XRP Inauguration Rally

Dear Crypto Diary, I am sitting in the studio today, August 21, 2026, flipping through my old physical pages and I stopped at Crypto Diary #38. It is wild to think about that 🦅🇺🇲 CRYPTO INAUGURATION DAY 🇺🇲🦅 on January 20th, 2025. I remember the smell of the neon markers and the scratch of my ballpoint pen against the paper as I recorded BTC at $104,280 and XRP at $3.18. The Fear and Greed Index was sitting at a neutral 58, but the energy in the XRPL community was anything but neutral. It was electric. Looking at these hand-drawn lines now, I feel that raw human connection that no computer-generated image could ever replicate. This is why I started this journey on xrp.cafe—to prove that real human art belongs on the blockchain. Every stroke is a testament to our history. We are still pushing toward the goal of becoming the biggest and most recognized NFT collection in the world. No shortcuts, no slop, just pure history recorded by hand. As we move further into 2026, I stay committed to the ink. The prices change, but the art remains forever.