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🌀 Ripple’s Next Move — Modular Rebuild Could Reshape XRP Ledger

🔥 Ripple CTO David Schwartz has confirmed internal talks are heating up around a modular overhaul of the XRP Ledger (XRPL) — and Rust could be the future coding language!

💻 The Problem?

XRPL’s current monolithic C++ structure tightly binds key components like:

🔗 Consensus Engine

💸 Transaction Processing

📡 Overlay Protocols

📊 Client Query Interface

📉 This complexity adds technical debt and creates inconsistencies — especially in the payment engine, where floating-point math can return different answers depending on the sequence!

⚙️ The Solution?

Schwartz and RippleX are discussing:

✅ Modularization instead of a full rewrite

✅ Compartmentalizing logic into virtual machines (VMs)

✅ Formalizing transaction logic for clearer specs

✅ Potential dual-client support with Rust

🔍 Will this affect XRP holders?

Nope. Ledger operation and on-chain data remain untouched. RippleX confirmed this shift is dev-side only.

🗣️ “It’s not just theoretical anymore,” Schwartz said. “It would be a win all around.”

💡 Bonus: Devs are also pushing for naming convention standardization to improve long-term XRPL maintainability.

👀 Big changes could be on the horizon… stay tuned!

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