Jake Claver

Jake Claver Family Office Professional | Investor | Fintech & web3 Expert

06/24/2026

Diversifying custody can reduce single-point-of-failure risk by spreading assets across different storage methods. Some investors use a mix of institutional custody, cold storage, and exchange-based holdings to balance security, accessibility, and operational needs. As the qualified custodian landscape expands, multi-custodian solutions may offer greater flexibility and redundancy. The goal is not just growing assets, but protecting them across every stage of the wealth-building journey.

06/23/2026

Public charity beats a private foundation on tax deductions. Twice over.

With a private foundation you can write off 30% of your income in cash and 20% in kind per year. Set up a public charity and you can deduct 60% in cash and 30% in kind. Same dollar, double the impact, depending on which structure you pick first. A lot of people set up the foundation by default because it's easier to control, and few realize they just cut their own writeoff in half.

Pick the structure for the goal, not the convenience.

06/23/2026

The DTCC settles every stock and bond trade on Wall Street and processes $2.5 quadrillion in securities transactions annually. On June 1st they announced they are connecting their tokenized securities platform to the Stellar blockchain with a 2027 target launch. XLM surged 44% in a single week. Tokenization is not a zero-sum game. Stellar handles the securities tokenization and the issuance layer. XRP handles the liquidity and cross-border settlement between counterparties. The DTCC choosing a public blockchain also validates the entire category at the institutional level, opening the door for other institutions to consider XRPL for their own use cases. Here is exactly how the two networks fit together and what the DTCC announcement means for both.

06/23/2026

JPMORGAN WALKED INTO RIPPLE'S OFFICE AND TRIED TO BUY THE ENTIRE ESCROW.

2017. They wanted to control the supply. Ripple said no, and that's why the programmatic monthly release exists today. If the XRP sits in escrow, the banks can't touch it. It's a move most people in this space have never heard.

Save this for the next person who tells you Ripple is captured by the banks.

Voting no on digital assets today is voting on whether your family office is still around in 2048A lot of committees don...
06/23/2026

Voting no on digital assets today is voting on whether your family office is still around in 2048

A lot of committees don't realize this is the actual ballot

124 trillion dollars will transfer from boomers to their heirs through 2048

87 percent of family offices have not yet been passed to the next generation

59 percent expect that transition inside the next ten years

Natixis reported in April that 55 percent of heirs plan to leave the advisor who served their parents

The math underneath those numbers is uncomfortable

A family office that cannot custody digital assets when the heirs are 40

Cannot run on-chain reporting when the heirs expect real-time portfolio visibility from their phone

Cannot speak the language of programmable finance when the heirs are running their personal accounts on it

That office will preserve the portfolio for one more generation

Then it will watch the next generation take the portfolio somewhere else

This is the story of which family offices will still have a seat at the table in twenty years and which become footnotes in someone else's case study

The position your office takes on digital assets right now is a position on the office's own survival

That is the actual decision in front of the committee

A lot of committees are not voting on it knowingly

When you picture your family office in 2048

Who is actually sitting at the table?

And what about the firm earned them the seat?

06/23/2026

The $100 figure is often discussed as a theoretical utility threshold based on supply, liquidity, transaction volume, and token velocity assumptions. The broader framework is that settlement asset pricing depends on available supply relative to the value being settled, not simply market speculation. Real question is, are investors prepared for a world where settlement utility drives valuation?

There's a difference between projects that talk and projects that ship. The XRP ecosystem keeps delivering what others a...
06/23/2026

There's a difference between projects that talk and projects that ship. The XRP ecosystem keeps delivering what others are still pitching on a roadmap. I don't read that as speculation. It looks like serious capital getting positioned around real usage before it's obvious to everyone else.

Building beats announcing. What are you watching get built?

06/23/2026

The closer you are to where the money enters the system, the less inflation you eat and the more you earn.

That's the whole game in one sentence. Whoever sits closest to a new wave of capital catches the appreciation, and whoever shows up last buys the top from them. It applies to every cycle, every asset, every rotation. Position before the inflow, not after the headline.

Save this and reread it next time you're tempted to chase.

06/23/2026

Quantum computing could pose risks to older wallet formats that expose public keys, making long-term cryptographic upgrades an important topic across the digital asset industry. The debate is less about current capabilities and more about whether networks can implement quantum-resistant security before the technology becomes viable at scale. Which networks are preparing today for the security challenges of tomorrow?

06/23/2026

For many investors, an LLC is often the first structure considered, with trust planning added later as assets grow. A revocable trust can provide probate protection at almost any asset level, while more complex structures like irrevocable trusts are typically evaluated when portfolio values justify the additional cost and planning. These are guidelines rather than rules. The right timing depends on your assets, goals, and long-term estate plan.

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