It’s been a good 12 months for the DeFi ecosystem. Not only did the sector’s TVL climb to exponential heights, but its total market cap ($16.5 billion) also overtook that of XRP’s ($10.66 billion) recently, according to data from Messari. In fact, the last few weeks also saw XRP, one of the old stalwarts of...Read More
Ripple’s Chief Technology Officer [CTO], David Schwartz had announced an upgrade to the XRP Ledger [XRPL] back in November. Schwartz has now shared the first results of the major performance optimization of the ledger. Calling the results “incredibly encouraging” Ripple’s CTO spoke about combining different performance optimizations proposed by various software engineers. The CTO added...Read More
XRP community on Twitter distinguishes itself from the rest by the title bestowed upon it- ‘XRP army’; however, a troop from this army has shifted allegiance. Leading this faction is a Twitter user ‘Crypto Bitlord’, according to whom, he/she (they) act as the delegated spokesperson for a disenchanted and disillusioned camp. Bitlord’s first operation was...Read More