How blockchain, law, and open code shape a new financial architecture
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⚖️ 1. Legal status: law of 1901
The XRPL Foundation website states:
> “Registered association under the 1901 law - 60 Rue François 1er, Paris, France”
Few people pay attention to this line, but it defines everything.
This is about the French law of July 1, 1901 (Loi du 1er juillet 1901 relative au contrat d’association) - the main law in France regarding non-profit associations and funds.
📜 Under this law, organizations that do not aim for profit but engage in socially beneficial activities - science, education, technological development, culture, and charity - are registered.
For XRPL Foundation, this means that the fund:
has official legal status in France,
can accept donations, grants, and funding,
must direct them exclusively to the development of the XRPL ecosystem,
and operates in full transparency before European regulators.
📍 Thus, XRPLF is not a commercial company like Ripple Labs, but an independent European organization operating on the principles of open code and public trust.
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🇫🇷 2. Why France?
France is not a random choice.
It is here that the tradition of 'association à but non lucratif' - associations without profit-making goals has formed.
Registration in Paris, at 60 Rue François 1er (75008), places XRPLF in the heart of the European legal and diplomatic center, next to international organizations, banks, and technological institutions.
📌 This gives the fund the status of an international player capable of cooperating with:
universities and research laboratories,
financial institutions of the EU,
technological startups working with blockchain infrastructure.
In fact, XRPLF becomes a bridge between the Ripple blockchain and the legal system of Europe.
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💻 3. Technical side: official GitHub XRPLF
If the legal address is the 'body' of the fund,
so GitHub XRPLF (github.com/XRPLF) is its brain and nervous system.
Here, all source code of XRPL is published and developed, including the main repository -
📦 rippled (decentralized blockchain daemon written in C++).
This is exactly the code that provides:
the operation of nodes,
transaction processing,
network consensus,
interaction with tokens and smart contracts of XRPL.
📊 In numbers:
⭐ more than 5,000 developers have added the project to their favorites,
🔱 more than 1,600 forks - XRPL is actively studied, copied, and developed all over the world.
🧠 Everything is open — anyone can see changes in the code, participate in discussions,
make proposals and track blockchain development in real time.
This is real decentralization, not just a slogan.
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🔍 4. XRPLF and Ripple: key difference
Many still confuse Ripple Labs and XRPL Foundation, although they perform completely different roles:
Ripple Labs XRPL Foundation
Private fintech company Independent non-profit fund
Develops commercial products (RippleNet, ODL, Liquidity Hub) Supports and develops XRPL infrastructure
Operates under US legislation Registered in France under the 1901 law
Profit model of the business Public mission and open code
Ripple is a commercial company that uses XRPL,
and XRPL Foundation is a structure that protects and develops XRPL as an open system.
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🧩 5. Significance for the ecosystem
Registration of XRPLF under the 1901 law and its active work on GitHub -
it is not just bureaucracy and IT support.
This is the legal and technical foundation on which trust in the XRP blockchain is built.
💡 In a world where crypto projects often look like anonymous startups without an address and transparency,
XRPLF demonstrates the opposite model:
> transparency, accountability, and institutional maturity.
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🌍 6. Symbolic level
One could say that Paris has become a legal portal for XRPL into Europe.
The technology born in the USA has received a second breath under the protection of French law -
in a country where the 1901 law has been a symbol of freedom of association and public development for over a century.
📜 That XRPLF chose this form shows the intention to embed technology into the legal and ethical field of the future economy,
and not just to use it for speculation.
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💬 Conclusion
XRPL Foundation is not just a technical coordinator.
This is the official European support for the XRP Ledger —
with legal registration, open code, and a public mission.
🪙 When a fund with a legal address in Paris manages the code,
and its developers publish updates publicly on GitHub,
this is no longer 'crypto in the shadows',
and a new form of digital infrastructure, equal to banking in maturity.
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🔗 Links for verification:
Official website: https://www.xrpl.foundation
GitHub: https://github.com/XRPLF
French law of 1901 (original): Loi du 1er juillet 1901
