Lauren

Stablecoin Product Lead @ Ripple

[The Block @TheBlockCo]

EXCLUSIVE: Squid adds Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin for cross-chain swaps https://t.co/DyyVNc5h64

[Lauren @rootveg444]

$1.5B 💪

[CoinDesk @CoinDesk]

Latest: @ripple’s $RLUSD breaks into the Top 50 tokens by market cap.

[Lauren @rootveg444]

Looking forward to saying hello to the XRP community, and discussing RLUSD 🥳

[Raquel Amanda @Raquel_AmandaPR]

XRP Community Day continues in just a couple hours with another solid lineup of speakers. And one more Swag Drop is coming. 👀

Who is locked in to hear from Solana Foundation, Hex Trust, Uphold, EasyA, Doppler, the RLUSD team — and of course closing us off, the one and only @JoelKatz.

Let’s go!!

https://t.co/QFUIM4KkiZ

[Lauren @rootveg444]

@MollinBrett Extremely exciting Brett, will be wonderful to see the next wave for XRP!

[Brett Mollin @MollinBrett]

For the past 11 years, I’ve built on the XRP Ledger as a developer, infrastructure operator, and community participant. Stepping into the Executive Director role at the XRPL Foundation is an opportunity to help steward the network through its next phase of growth.
My focus will be ensuring the ledger remains resilient, scalable, and well-governed while strengthening participation from the developers, validators, and businesses building the future of this ecosystem. Excited to get to work alongside the global XRPL community.

[Lauren @rootveg444]

RLUSD + XRP = 🤠❤️🏆

[Ripple @Ripple]

XRP 🤝 RLUSD

How do XRP and stablecoins complement each other?

Tune into XRP Community Day next week with @_JackMcDonald_, Lauren Berta (@rootveg444) and @KreiserMatt from @MessariCrypto to learn more: https://t.co/dPQwIfs3tp

[Lauren @rootveg444]

Might be better to rely on XRPL security over EVM here. This kind of hard fork is quite comparable to an amendment which the XRPL community excels at and would give L2 communities a new access point to build on XRP. Could be very exciting on all sides!

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

There have recently been some discussions on the ongoing role of L2s in the Ethereum ecosystem, especially in the face of two facts:

* L2s' progress to stage 2 (and, secondarily, on interop) has been far slower and more difficult than originally expected
* L1 itself is scaling, fees are very low, and gaslimits are projected to increase greatly in 2026

Both of these facts, for their own separate reasons, mean that the original vision of L2s and their role in Ethereum no longer makes sense, and we need a new path.

First, let us recap the original vision. Ethereum needs to scale. The definition of "Ethereum scaling" is the existence of large quantities of block space that is backed by the full faith and credit of Ethereum - that is, block space where, if you do things (including with ETH) inside that block space, your activities are guaranteed to be valid, uncensored, unreverted, untouched, as long as Ethereum itself functions. If you create a 10000 TPS EVM where its connection to L1 is mediated by a multisig bridge, then you are not scaling Ethereum.

This vision no longer makes sense. L1 does not need L2s to be "branded shards", because L1 is itself scaling. And L2s are not able or willing to satisfy the properties that a true "branded shard" would require. I've even seen at least one explicitly saying that they may never want to go beyond stage 1, not just for technical reasons around ZK-EVM safety, but also because their customers' regulatory needs require them to have ultimate control. This may be doing the right thing for your customers. But it should be obvious that if you are doing this, then you are not "scaling Ethereum" in the sense meant by the rollup-centric roadmap. But that's fine! it's fine because Ethereum itself is now scaling directly on L1, with large planned increases to its gas limit this year and the years ahead.

We should stop thinking about L2s as literally being "branded shards" of Ethereum, with the social status and responsibilities that this entails. Instead, we can think of L2s as being a full spectrum, which includes both chains backed by the full faith and credit of Ethereum with various unique properties (eg. not just EVM), as well as a whole array of options at different levels of connection to Ethereum, that each person (or bot) is free to care about or not care about depending on their needs.

What would I do today if I were an L2?

* Identify a value add other than "scaling". Examples: (i) non-EVM specialized features/VMs around privacy, (ii) efficiency specialized around a particular application, (iii) truly extreme levels of scaling that even a greatly expanded L1 will not do, (iv) a totally different design for non-financial applications, eg. social, identity, AI, (v) ultra-low-latency and other sequencing properties, (vi) maybe built-in oracles or decentralized dispute resolution or other "non-computationally-verifiable" features
* Be stage 1 at the minimum (otherwise you really are just a separate L1 with a bridge, and you should just call yourself that) if you're doing things with ETH or other ethereum-issued assets
* Support maximum interoperability with Ethereum, though this will differ for each one (eg. what if you're not EVM, or even not financial?)

From Ethereum's side, over the past few months I've become more convinced of the value of the native rollup precompile, particuarly once we have enshrined ZK-EVM proofs that we need anyway to scale L1. This is a precompile that verifies a ZK-EVM proof, and it's "part of Ethereum", so (i) it auto-upgrades along with Ethereum, and (ii) if the precompile has a bug, Ethereum will hard-fork to fix the bug.

The native rollup precompile would make full, security-council-free, EVM verification accessible. We should spend much more time working out how to design it in such a way that if your L2 is "EVM plus other stuff", then the native rollup precompile would verify the EVM, and you only have to bring your own prover for the "other stuff" (eg. Stylus). This might involve a canonical way of exposing a lookup table between contract call inputs and outputs, and letting you provide your own values to the lookup table (that you would prove separately).

This would make it easy to have safe, strong, trustless interoperability with Ethereum. It also enables synchronous composability (see: https://t.co/9jy6v1X6Fw and https://t.co/gZmu3YjebM ). And from there, it's each L2's choice exactly what they want to build. Don't just "extend L1", figure out something new to add.

This of course means that some will add things that are trust-dependent, or backdoored, or otherwise insecure; this is unavoidable in a permissionless ecosystem where developers have freedom. Our job should make to make it clear to users what guarantees they have, and to build up the strongest Ethereum that we can.

[Ripple @Ripple]

Why are institutions moving to stablecoins?

It comes down to three things: speed, reach, and flexibility.

Lauren Berta, Stablecoin Product Lead at Ripple, breaks down the shift in Crypto in One Minute. ⏱️

From real-time settlement to putting programmability in the hands of treasurers, see how stablecoins like RLUSD are evolving the way money moves.

[RippleX @RippleXDev]

Apex 2025 wasn’t just a conference; it was a convergence.

From tokenization and stablecoins to programmability and new infrastructure, the XRPL community came together in Singapore to shape what’s next. 🇸🇬

If you missed it or want to rewatch the event, catch every session now on YouTube: https://t.co/T4MqglRA2p

[Lauren @rootveg444]

@laurashin Maybe torching the competition? 🙄

[Lauren @rootveg444]

Check out the paper 🤠 https://t.co/blJ3iIxOmE

[Lauren @rootveg444]

All of @dappcon_berlin is using @aboutcircles, an incredible project based on the RipplePayd paper that lead to the creation of the XRPL. It’s amazing to see the ETH and XRPL communities converge on gr8 ideas 😻🚀👨‍🎨

[Lauren @rootveg444]

Loved learning from @msvadari this week at Apex!! David and Mayukha are a pair of amaze brains

[Lauren @rootveg444]

@Vet_X0 @msvadari Hello!

[Mayukha Vadari @msvadari]

Lauren Berta from @Ripple (RLUSD), Michael Higgins from @HiddenRoadHQ, and Leonard Hoh from @Bitstamp discussing RLUSD and stablecoins

[Lauren @rootveg444]

@OndoFinance @Ripple Woo!

[Lauren @rootveg444]

@RyanSAdams RLUSD

[Lauren @rootveg444]

@StaniKulechov ❤️

[Lauren @rootveg444]

#OutHere