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Scaling the XRP Ledger in Poland: Insights from Our Carpathian Startup Fest Business Breakfast
Blockchain adoption doesn't happen at the protocol level — it happens when global infrastructure meets local ecosystems. Here's how XRPL Commons and Neti brought that conversation to one of Europe's fastest-growing innovation hubs.
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Where Research Meets the Real World. Recapping the XRPL Blockchain Research Summit 2026
The Blockchain Research Summit 2026 confirmed that academic blockchain research has moved beyond theory, with live demos, ZK-proof architectures, and deployable systems now sitting alongside policy and curriculum debates. Here is what two days of working groups, PhD showcases, and cross-sector dialogue revealed about where decentralised infrastructure is actually heading.
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From NFC to XRPL: Our First Meetup in Lisbon
What happens when blockchain meets Lisbon's buzzing startup scene? XRPL Commons brought together 70 founders, developers, and builders for their very first meetup in Portugal — and it was only the beginning.
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GLOW : What’s Changing and Why
GLOW is a retroactive funding program for builders in the XRPL ecosystem. Six months after launch, we took an honest look at what worked and what didn't. The program is now open to direct applications, no referral needed. Here's what we learned and where we go from here.
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Ryze and XRPL EVM: Rebuilding DeFi Where Value Belongs
A maturing DeFi sector brings a new set of questions around interoperability, financial stability and optimization. Ryze has the answers.
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A Decade Building a DeFi Pillar: Introducing Stablecoins
Among blockchain’s many financial innovations, stablecoins stand out as a core driver of DeFi, serving both as a competitive force and as a bridge between crypto and traditional finance.
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How to Enter the XRPL Ecosystem as a Builder, and Actually Make It
Success on the XRPL isn't about chasing trends — it's about conviction, consistency, and community. Builders who lean into their own lived experiences, ship early and often, and show up as genuine contributors are the ones who earn trust, attract capital, and become an integral part of the network's future.
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Scaling Institutional DeFi with RLUSD: Ripple's Stablecoin Strategy Explained
As institutional capital moves on-chain, the question is no longer whether stablecoins will underpin financial infrastructure, but which ones meet the standards of global finance. We talked to Lauren Berta, Stablecoin Product Lead at Ripple, to explore how RLUSD is positioning itself as a regulated, enterprise-grade digital dollar built for capital markets and cross-border scale. From liquidity architecture to institutional DeFi standards, she outlines what it takes for stablecoins to move from experimentation to core financial infrastructure.
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The Geek List: Books to Read from the XRPL Commons Library
The XRPL Commons’ Classroom library features a curated "Geek List" of essential reads covering AI agent design, Web3 community-building, and marketing strategies. The collection also includes investigative histories of blockchain evolution and simplified guides to complex concepts like Zero-Knowledge Proofs for both experts and beginners.
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Gemma 4 on the DGX Spark: Native Tool Calling and Reasoning Mode at 271 tok/s
We set up Google's Gemma 4 26B-A4B NVFP4 on the XRPL Commons office DGX Spark. We measured 51 tok/s single-stream, 271 tok/s at 8 concurrent requests, 54 ms TTFT, and 8.2× prefix cache speedup — all with native tool calling, reasoning mode, 131K context, and multimodal input preserved on 128GB of unified memory. We then tried to push throughput further and hit the hardware's real limits. Here's the full story.
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The XRPL Momentum - Recapping on XRPL Zone Paris 2026
XRPL Zone Paris 2026 transitioned the ecosystem from hype to institutional execution, focusing on technical primitives like native lending, vaults, and MPTs to support $1 trillion in tokenized assets. Key breakthroughs in Zero-Knowledge privacy and enterprise infrastructure signaled a strategic shift toward making the XRP Ledger the primary, compliant rail for global regulated finance.
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From Vision to Reality: The Roadmap Powering DeFi on XRPL
The XRP Ledger aims to bank the 1.3 billion unbanked people by providing a neutral, low-cost platform for financial sovereignty and real-world asset tokenization. By balancing decentralized trading with institutional compliance and user-friendly features like passkey security, it seeks to create a global, inclusive ecosystem powered by XRP.
