Steve Vann

[Krippenreiter @krippenreiter]

[🧵] What positively differentiates XRP and the XRP Ledger to all other networks?

Let's write a list! 🙂

1) The XRP LCP (the consensus protocol)

It's one of the only algorithms out there that doesn't bind its security to the price of XRP. The XRP network is exactly as secure at $1/XRP as it is at $589/XRP.

That's crucial because no entity will ever be able to reduce the networks security by artifically dumping the price.

It is also extremely unreasonable to form a cartell as no validator operator has any artifical incentive to validate any transaction on the XRP Ledger as there is no financial reason to outdo another validator just to gain an advantage.

This would change the moment validator operators would earn protocol fees, which are currently burned, as they should.

Naturally, all validators gravitate towards one (natural) goal: Making forward progress without any form of censorship.

2) Fixed-function network (No general Smart Contracts)

All programmability that exists on the XRP Ledger is what it already offers via so-called native primitives.

Although the obvious drawback is the lack of flexibility and the lack of "permissionless general programmability," the obvious advantage is the fact that the XRP Ledger remains performant and predictable at all times while keeping fees low.

What does it mean for security?

New features that enact on XRPL need to be secure and safe. Since we are all naturally aligned in our incentives by sharing the same protocol, there is no reason for anyone to bet against the XRPL as long as you are part of the XRP ecosystem.

Doesn't matter if you're a holder or a developer or a business. A new feature affects us all, which aligns us all to only ever enact a new feature if it gets rigorously tested first.

Not so much with smart contracts, since participants in siloed liquidity venues have no real incentive to "help" the competition to be more secure.

For the XRP Ledger, it boils down to:
- What you see is what you get.

In case you want more? Off-chain is the answer.

For this, things that weren't possible back in the day are getting more and more plausible, namely intents and L2s via ZK-SNARKs. So off-chain compute.

3) Deterministic finality (+ Canonical Transaction Ordering)

Sounds complicated, but what it simply means is that whenever a block gets validated and finalized, it's actually final. Buying a coffee and seeing the confirmation truly means the coffee got bought, the payer sent the money, and the payee received the money.

Also, one cool side effect with the canonical ordering of transactions is that the order cannot easily be manipulated, as no validator competes with another validator just for the sake of transaction ordering.

So no fee-based ordering, which would be a form of censorship.

4) Native Payment Engine on the XRP Ledger

The XRP Ledger uses a subsystem that is responsible for all value transfer. It always favors the user and routes trades so that prices are as efficient as possible.

For this it unifies every value-based feature on the XRP Ledger so that really complex cross-currency payments are made possible.

This is also why the XRPL DEX is not just an AMM or just a CLOB but actually both at the same time. They work in tandem.

5) Autobridging (XRP)

Part of the payment engine is also the autobridging mechanism. The reason why this is so cool is because the XRP network will always try to automagically trade an offer through XRP first whenever that would mean a better price for the user.

The natural side effect of this is that on the XRP Ledger, every asset can be made liquid to any other asset as long as both assets are at least liquid to XRP.

6) Everything else 😉
- Community
- High liquidity depth across trading venues
- Low fees
- Fast and reliable transaction settlement
- Easy to build on (API-based)
- Bridging possible via Axelar + Squid
- Negative UNL to improve network resilience (liveness)
- Lindy Effect (runs like butter since 2012)
- New powerful XRPLF
- Ripple's escrow for XRP distribution vs. mining

I've probably left a lot out, but that should be enough. 🙂✌️

[SMQKE @SMQKEDQG]

Gary Knows.💯

[XRP Bags💰👨🏽‍🚀 BagMan @XRPBags]

people ask me why I hold XRP through everything.
I give them the short version:

Ripple was the only crypto invited
to the Federal Reserve's payments task force.

Ripple was the only crypto featured
by the World Bank's Better Than Cash Alliance.

Ripple was the first ISO 20022 member
focused on distributed ledger technology.

XRP is the crypto the UN officially uses
for their carbon credit solution.

Ripple has hired former US Treasury officials.
Former Federal Reserve attorneys.
Former Swift board members.
Former SEC chairs.
Former BlackRock digital asset executives.
Former Obama and Clinton advisors.

Ripple sits on the IMF's fintech advisory board.
The World Economic Forum.
The Digital Dollar Project.
The Digital Pound Foundation.
The Digital Euro Association.

this isn't a crypto company.
this is the company
that was chosen to build the new financial system
before most people knew a new financial system was being built.

I hold XRP because the people building the future
already made their choice.
I just know what i hold.

[Diana @InvestWithD]

🚨CORRECTION: XRP Actually JUST WENT LIVE on Solana CONFIRMED by Chief Product Officer 🚀🔥

Earlier reports suggested this was ONLY the wrapped version (wXRP) that went LIVE in 2025.

but that claim has now been corrected. 👀

@Solana’s Chief Product Officer has CONFIRMED that $XRP is now LIVE and tradeable on Solana TODAY. ✅

XRP 🤝 SOLANA 🔥

[Steve Vann @cptvann]

@unknowDLT Bullish

[Steve Vann @cptvann]

@ChadSteingraber @ShowMeXRP Do u know the status of the xrp ETFs that had a deadline yesterday?

[Crypto4Life (Six8Jay) XRP @james_six8jay]

Ripple’s on a tear & $XRP is at the center of it!

[Steve Vann @cptvann]

@puckrin This is why xrp was premined and distributed differently.

[Steve Vann @cptvann]

@DylworksXRP_FLR @brian_armstrong @coinbase Circle will go down with the Coinbase ship.

[Steve Vann @cptvann]

@TrendingBitcoin They will use xrp

[Steve Vann @cptvann]

@AndrewfillionX @FlareNetworks The more weak retail that sells now, the quicker the price gaps up, since the rest know what they hold and won't sell.

[Steve Vann @cptvann]

@Jvnior Bored of Peace

[Steve Vann @cptvann]

@SMQKEDQG I wonder if this is why there are glitches in the price

[Steve Vann @cptvann]

@wealthyanon If the clarity act does not pass. Coinbase will cease to exist in my opinion. Uphold always had xrp army's back

[Steve Vann @cptvann]

@XrpUdate I will tell mine this is Epstein's kid

[Steve Vann @cptvann]

@Ripplesinwales For Coinbase to survive, Blackrock needs to fire Brian. We know who the boss really is.

[Steve Vann @cptvann]

@PresidentHODL @1CrypticPoet @brian_armstrong @coinbase Jeffrey Epstein needs to take back his seed money and fire Brian

[Steve Vann @cptvann]

@BullandBaird Tether

[Steve Vann @cptvann]

@elonmusk @techdevnotes Has x money been delayed due to compliance issues? I saw a post about it and wonder if it is true.

[Steve Vann @cptvann]

@XRPcryptowolf Yes