Remembering the early XRP run at xrp.cafe

Dear Crypto Diary, I am sitting here in August 2026, flipping back through my physical sketchbook to find Crypto Diary #41. It is wild to see my hand-drawn ballpoint lines from January 31, 2025, staring back at me. Back then, I noted that it was not exactly crypto winter, but it did not feel like full spring yet either. I recorded XRP at $3.08 that day, a massive milestone at the time, while BTC was hovering around the $105,000 mark. The Fear and Greed index was sitting at a neutral 54, reflecting that weird, stagnant tension in the air. Looking at the neon marker strokes on the paper, I remember the physical effort of documenting that moment. This is why I do this—to prove that human art and real market history belong together on the XRPL. While others flood the space with generated images, I am sticking to my mission of building the most recognized NFT collection in the world through raw, manual labor. Every entry on xrp.cafe/collection/crypto-diary is a piece of my soul and a record of our collective journey. We have come so far since that $3.08 XRP candle, but the goal remains the same: real art, real history, no shortcuts.