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Story: Ripple engineers explore native XRP staking as XRPL struggles to gain momentum in DeFi

By Julie Binoche

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Technical conversations intensify around native staking. In the published analysis, Akinyele noted that XRP’s utility has grown significantly since its…

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Two experimental directions under discussion. Ripple Chief Technology Officer David Schwartz, one of the principal architects of XRPL, joined…

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XRPL DeFi adoption remains modest compared to competitors. The renewed technical discussions come at a time when XRPL is experiencing gradual, but not…

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Could native staking become a long-term catalyst?. If native staking eventually arrives on XRPL — whether through a structural change or a…

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Community reaction: curiosity rather than speculation. The response from the wider XRP community has been measured rather than euphoric.

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What comes next?. At present, no staking proposal has been submitted to the XRPL governance pipeline and no roadmap…

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A new wave of technical debate has emerged inside the Ripple ecosystem after a detailed analysis from RippleX Head of Engineering J.

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Despite being one of the oldest blockchain networks—operational since 2012—XRPL has yet to match the DeFi activity seen on rival networks.

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Akinyele stated that for native staking to exist, two foundational elements must be clearly defined:

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A mechanism to distribute rewards fairly

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Unlike Proof-of-Stake (PoS) networks, XRPL’s Proof of Association model does not redistribute transaction fees and does not rely on economic stake to determine validator influence.

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Akinyele warned that introducing staking would require rethinking how value circulates in the ecosystem—without undermining decentralization or altering the core motivations of…

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Ripple Chief Technology Officer David Schwartz, one of the principal architects of XRPL, joined the ongoing technical discussion, outlining two experimental models under…

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Two-layer consensus concept This approach proposes an inner validator layer of 16 nodes selected by a wider validator network based on stake.

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Zero-knowledge proof–based validation The second idea preserves the current validator system entirely.

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