Ripple’s Move To Privacy: How A Re-organization Of The XRP Ledger Will Affect...
Ripple CTO Emeritus David Schwartz has laid out a rare look at how the XRP Ledger could respond if it ever came under pressure from a state-level actor. The discussion started with a question about whether an authoritarian regime could use or attack the XRP Ledger by targeting its validator network. Schwartz did not dismiss […]
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Ripple’s latest think piece on the XRP Ledger (XRPL) makes a blunt case that institutional finance will not move on-chain at scale without first-class privacy—and that the missing capability can be delivered without abandoning public-chain transparency or compliance. Ripple Pushes Programmable Privacy For The XRP Ledger In an article published on October 2, Senior Director of […]
Ripple’s developer arm has floated a blueprint to bring privacy-coin-like functionality to the XRP Ledger—without abandoning the network’s long-standing emphasis on public supply integrity and compliance tooling. In a new XRP Ledger Standards (XRPLF) discussion opened on September 13, Ripple engineers Murat Cenk and Aanchal Malhotra propose “Confidential Multi-Purpose Tokens (MPTs),” an amendment that would […]
Ripple’s Senior Director of Engineering, J. Ayo Akinyele, has announced a significant privacy upgrade for the XRP Ledger (XRPL). In a blog post published in October 2025, Akinyele explained that the goal is to protect sensitive transaction details while still following global regulations. Akinyele shared the full roadmap in the official blog post, describing how […]
How private is your bitcoin wallet? The Open Bitcoin Privacy Project (OBPP), a global, not-for-profit organization devoted to improving financial privacy in the bitcoin ecosystem, attempts to offer some guidance with its Bitcoin Privacy Rating Report. OBPP has released its second edition of the report, scoring 20 wallets on their privacy features. The top ranking in this report goes to Ledger, which earned a score of 50 out of 100 possible points, based on usability, quality and feedback. OBPP’s goal is to make financial privacy visible so that users can make informed choices about privacy....
A new upgrade to the Ripple network is giving the XRP Ledger a significant boost in privacy. The company’s developers have added new privacy tools that keep user and payment details hidden during transaction confirmation. The update represents a massive leap for XRP Ledger privacy, allowing users to send and confirm transactions without exposing personal […]