Altcoins News
By Steven Anderson
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Why XRP Can't Be Staked. The XRP Ledger runs on a Federated Byzantine Agreement — fBFT, if you want the acronym.
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How the Collateral Model Works. The 12% APR doesn't appear out of nowhere. Borrowers on LendProtocol pay 12.7% interest.
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RLUSD Adds a Volatility Hedge. The RLUSD angle is worth paying attention to. Ripple's fully backed, regulated USD stablecoin is…
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XRP can't be staked. Full stop. That's not a platform limitation or a temporary gap — it's baked into how the XRP Ledger actually works, and no upgrade is going to change that…
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The platform is pitching itself as the practical workaround for XRP holders who want yield without jumping ship to Ethereum or Solana.
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The XRP Ledger runs on a Federated Byzantine Agreement — fBFT, if you want the acronym. Validators on the network reach consensus without locking up tokens and without earning…
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For a lot of XRP holders, that's been quietly frustrating. Ethereum holders can stake. Solana holders can stake.
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And it's consumer-focused, which matters. LendProtocol is deliberately separate from the institutional-grade XLS-66 standard that Ripple developed.
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Borrowers have to put up 120% collateral. So if someone borrows $10,000 worth of XRP, they need to post $12,000 in collateral first.
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Related: LendProtocol Brings 12% Fixed-Rate Lending to XRP Ledger With 13,713 Active Lenders
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That's a pretty significant claim in a market where plenty of lending platforms have quietly passed default risk back to users through fine print.
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The RLUSD angle is worth paying attention to. Ripple's fully backed, regulated USD stablecoin is available as a lending asset on LendProtocol alongside XRP.
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Earning in a stablecoin while the underlying asset moves around is a real hedge. It's not perfect — counterparty risk on the platform itself doesn't disappear — but for someone…
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The platform runs directly on the XRP Ledger, which keeps transaction costs low and speeds high. No bridging to another chain. No wrapping tokens. No waiting.
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Related: Ripples $449 Million RLUSD Minting Leads to Shocking 99% Burn on XRP Ledger
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