Top XRP Ledger Dev Calls Out Ripple’s Leadership On Smart Contract Pivot
Wietse Wind, founder of XRP Labs—one of the leading independent XRP Ledger development companies—has published an open letter to the community and Ripple. Wind is known for the Xaman wallet (formerly Xumm) and Hooks. The latter represents a smart contract functionality developed by Wind for the XRP Ledger, functioning as layer one custom code that […]
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