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In 2011, David Schwartz, Jed McCaleb, and Arthur Britto, inspired by Bitcoin but concerned about its high energy consumption, set out to create a more sustainable system for transferring value. By June 2012, they had completed the development of the XRP Ledger (XRPL), which was ready for launch. Once the ledger went live, 80% of the total XRP supply was gifted to a new company called NewCoin, which was soon renamed OpenCoin and eventually became Ripple.
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In September 2012, Chris Larsen joined the founding team, and together they officially established Ripple. The XRPL creators contributed 80 billion XRP to the new company, which later placed most of these funds in escrow. Despite some technical changes made at the end of 2012, transaction validation on the ledger didnāt fully function until January 2013.
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David Schwartz, now Rippleās CTO, addressed speculation about XRPās distribution, arguing that there was nothing unfair about the creators keeping a significant portion of the value the market attributed to their work. When asked why the plan to gift XRP to Ripple emerged only after the XRPL was created, Schwartz admitted he wasnāt deeply involved in the initial distribution but confirmed that the distribution agreement was made by September 17, 2012. He also shared the signed agreement as proof and noted that the original āGenesisā wallet had almost no XRP from the start
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