RippleX Engineer and Ripple CTO Examine Native Staking Proposals for XRP Ledger
RippleX Head of Engineering J. Ayo Akinyele and departing Ripple CTO David Schwartz have explored potential pathways for introducing native staking to the XRP Ledger. Both emphasized that such proposals remain exploratory and would require significant protocol modifications. The discussion follows increased XRP activity in decentralized finance applications and the recent approval of Canary's spot XRP ETF in the United States.