XRPL sidechain proposal to add American-style options and 200x margin trading
On March 1, 2026, XRP community member WrathofKahneman highlighted a GitHub proposal for an XRP Ledger options sidechain after XRPL Labs engineer Denis Angell teased it as "Something big." The plan outlines American-style options, up to 200x leveraged margin trading and a trustless bridge secured by XRPL validators, plus native webAuthn/FIDO2 passkey support for authentication.