🌀 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!
