✦ The First Ledger ✦
The First Ledger: BNY, 1784 → 2026
The oldest bank in America financed the founding of the nation's ledger. On October 27, 2026, it began holding XRP and RLUSD. A 13-minute film from the 1784 coffee house to the XRP Ledger. Back to the future.
Chapters
- 0:00 — The First Ledger
- 1:04 — The coffee house, 1784
- 2:11 — The sky over Queen Street
- 2:56 — Seven years without a charter
- 3:58 — Warrant Number One, 1789
- 4:55 — The buttonwood, 1792
- 5:58 — Plumbing for a nation
- 7:07 — The machine and the merger
- 8:18 — The pipes of the Treasury
- 9:22 — A new kind of ledger
- 10:23 — October 27, 2026
- 11:34 — The Ledger's outlook
Sources
- https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-03-02-0332
- https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-08-02-0150
- https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-05-02-0151
- https://www.bny.com/assets/corporate/documents/pdf/a-brief-history.pdf
- https://www.bny.com/corporate/global/en/about-us/history.html
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BNY
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buttonwood_Agreement
- https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/essays/rise-american-institution-stock-market
- https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1390777/000119312507147812/dex991.htm
- https://www.sec.gov/rules-regulations/staff-guidance/staff-accounting-bulletins/staff-accounting-bulletin-122
- https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/powell20161024.htm
- https://www.bny.com/corporate/global/en/about-us/newsroom/press-release/bny-mellon-forms-new-digital-assets-unit-to-build-industrypercent27s-first-multi-asset-digital-platform-130169.html
- https://www.bny.com/corporate/global/en/about-us/newsroom/press-release/bny-mellon-launches-new-digital-asset-custody-platform-130305.html
- https://www.bny.com/corporate/global/en/about-us/newsroom/press-release/ripple-selects-bny-to-custody-ripple-usd-reserves.html
- https://www.bny.com/corporate/global/en/about-us/newsroom/press-release/bny-announces-planned-change-of-stock-ticker-symbol-to-bny-130465.html
- https://ripple.com/ripple-press/ripple-expands-collaboration-with-bny-across-custody-and-tokenized-trade-finance/
- https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEsaros/SEsaros126.html
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_to_the_Future_(franchise
- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-film-backtothefuture-idUSKCN0SF21P20151021/
- Back to the Future beats: Wikipedia, “Back to the Future (franchise)”; HuffPost, Nov 12, 2013 (clock tower); Reuters, Oct 21, 2015 (Part II date).
- Images: Wikimedia Commons (Tontine Coffee House, CC BY 2.5; Hamilton portrait, Federal Hall 1789, Lockport, Bank of New York $3 note 1808, Wall Street 1867, Wall & Broad — public domain).