The Batch amendment for the XRP Ledger is BACK! 😈
Massive shoutout to Denis and the whole core dev community for prioritizing the rework with huge amounts of security audits.
Batch allows for atomic transaction bundling allowing Peer2Peer swaps and monetization.
14 years ago, we got together with an idea to build a better way to move value. What happened next was something none of us could have built alone.
And by "us," I don't just mean the three of us.
I mean the developers, validators, businesses, community members, and everyone who helped shape XRP into what it is today.
Happy Birthday, XRP!
We are excited to support the Philippine SEC’s StratBox initiative through our partnership with BlockShoals.
Frameworks like StratBox matter because they create space for innovation, dialogue, and stronger safeguards for users — all at the same time.
Looking forward to contributing to the Philippines’ growing digital asset ecosystem 🇵🇭
Read more 👉 https://t.co/U3EdNTBuCE
Banks are closed today, the XRP Ledger is open for business settling payments globally as we speak in few seconds.
Global 24/7 access, built in features, no middlemen, censorship resistant and low cost transactions and infrastructure.
Reminder this will change society forever.
In less than a year, XRP Ledger has climbed from the top 10 to #4 on the @RWA_xyz league table, making it one of the fastest-growing RWA ecosystems in the space.
Today, XRPL is home to a growing range of tokenized financial assets onchain, from U.S. Treasuries and money market funds to commercial paper, structured credit, and more.
Bringing assets onchain is an important milestone. Expanding what those assets can enable across financial markets is part of the broader opportunity ahead, and one the XRP community is building toward together.
Track: https://t.co/fZKc4HoJrk
SCAM ALERT: There has been a huge escalation lately in airdrop and giveaway scams targetting XRPL users lately. Any such posts you see are likely scams.
Anyone claiming to be me on Instagram, Telegram, or almost anywhere else is likely a scammer.
Stay safe XRP fam.
Things are coming together on the XRP Ledger and XRP is at the core of the protocol, its privileged role goes beyond just gas fees.
With
- On chain DEX with Orderbooks and AMMs
- Native compliance with the power duo Credentials + Permissioned Domains.
- Compliant privacy with confidential transfers of MPTs
- Wide range of token standards, all native, IOUs, NFTs and MPTs (Semi fungible).
- It deserves its own point, native Escrow and Payment channels. Especially Payment channels + ZKPs is food for thought.
- Permissioned DEX to allow for compliant trading.
- Upcoming Lending protocol to provide institutional and consumer grade Credit infrastructure.
- Upcoming Programmability that gives us some flexibility even without being a general purpose smart contract layer with Smart Escrows is amazing.
we have a strong foundation for liquidity built up where XRP can be used the liquidity bridge, preferred, because its the only counterparty free and native asset on the ledger.
Today, Mastercard, @OndoFinance, Kinexys by @JPMorgan, and @Ripple successfully completed a landmark transaction connecting a public blockchain with interbank settlement rails.
Together, we’re laying the groundwork for 24/7 global markets that never close.
Litecoin suffered potentially a 51% attack.
How does it compare to XRPs consensus algo?
Proof of Work is the worst security model because you're only as secure as someone else is willing to spend more $ to attack the network than PoW is incentivizing miners.
Litecoin (like BTC) also has the Nakamoto fork choice algorithm which has probabilistic and not absolute settlement (like XRP) of transactions because of the possibility of (deep) chain reorganize attacks. Which is part of how 51% attacks are carried out and has happened here.
Bitcoin managed to have high enough token price to fund excessive amounts of hashrate to make this exact attack scenario by magnitudes more costly. Any PoW chain who can't do the same is more vulnerable to attacks like this.
The price of the native token dictates how secure PoW network are, that's why they are fundamentally a bad choice for multi asset features like stablecoins or RWAs at scale because it can't secure other tokens well and reliable.
The XRP Ledger is built differently, the consensus algorithm has absolute final settlement which means validated blocks are protected and can't be reorganized.
Network security doesn't rely on XRPs price. The network is as secure with $1 XRP or $1000 XRP, that is very important for a reliable settlement machine.
More importantly validators on the XRP Ledger can only collude to stall the network, thats the worst case scenario you can recover from quickly by swapping them out. But you can't do 51% attacks on XRP.
Thats why validators are so boring on the XRPL, their power is intentionally limited.
The SEC’s first mission is to protect investors. Under Gary Gensler, the SEC clearly lost its way. He declared war on a technology.. It was an unlawful power grab…and the courts said as much.
By comparison, @SECPaulSAtkins is a breath of fresh air and sanity. He is a model of what leadership at the SEC should look like… he’s focusing on what matters - protecting investors and fostering innovations that help those investors and the markets.
People call DeFi to be dead because of the hacks.
Strongly disagree. It will just change. Users demand better.
The industry will become safer. Just like aviation accidents in the past made flying so safe today.
- Interoperability is still not solved, bridges are again at the center of massive exploits.
- EVERY ounce of yield is paid for with the same amount of risk.
- Key management and hygiene is still not taken seriously enough by builders and users.
- Tradfi needs to operate on least security assumptions as possible - like with a simple L1, allow the heavy lifting to be done off chain.
- Zero and full programmability is not great, something in the middle is appealing. More efforts in outsourcing business logic from the blockchain.
Imo this is a massive chance especially for everyone who is ready to be forward looking when it comes to protocol development and building apps.
Grayscale XRP Trust ETF (Ticker: $GXRP) provides exposure to $XRP, the world’s 3rd largest digital asset¹, in your brokerage account from Grayscale, the world's largest crypto-focused asset manager².
SHx is now connected to XRPL. So what actually changes?
We break down the infrastructure, what’s emerging on XRPL, and why it matters ↓
https://t.co/Z4iXNMoi0I
Ready to try it? Watch the step-by-step tutorial created by Stronghold community member @DebunkJelpi.