Ripple community considers XRP staking as DeFi, ETFs open up on XRPL
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Ripple’s XRP Ledger is undergoing a strategic shift as the community calls for native staking. This follows the recent launch of its Canary Capital ETF, which gained about $57 million in volume on the first day of trading. These two developments suggest XRP is moving beyond its traditional payments niche and into a broader investment and DeFi landscape. Ripple explores native staking to boost XRPL’s potential XRP is known for its speed and efficiency in cross-border transactions. However, the XRP Ledger (XRPL) is missing a feature common in many blockchains, which allows holders to earn rewards by locking their tokens to support network operations. Ayo Akinyele, Head of Engineering at RippleX, in a thread on X, started the conversation about staking on XRPL, asking: “what if we supported native staking on the XRPL one day? What would this look like?” Prominent voices in the XRP community and the XRPL have openly weighed in on whether staking would be a native feature of the XRPL. Implementing staking poses technical challenges, especially given XRPL’s unique consensus mechanism. A community member WrathofKahneman on X also noted that Ripple owns most of XRP and “staking would validate their influence over the ledger obviously and structurally”. Ripple’s CTO David Schwartz proposed a preliminary solution where policing of staked funds is left to validators. However, this raises a problem where validators only accept stakes from their “friends”. To solve this, Schwartz proposed the creation of a worthless governance token with limited supply. Holders of that token would collectively manage the validator list, replacing the Unique Node List (UNL) with a self-governing system. If some token holders act against the community’s interest, others can respond by creating a fork of the token and directing their network to support it instead. ETF momentum and DeFi access broaden XRP’s…
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