Ripple's lead engineer to exit after nearly a decade with the firm

Ripple's lead engineer to exit after nearly a decade with the firm

Nik Bougalis primarily worked on open-source code projects for the payments-focused XRP Ledger, with the recent push to introduce NFTs being a key implementation of note. Ripple Labs’ director of engineering Nik Bougalis is exiting the firm after nearly 10 years, becoming the latest of crypto's long-time serving executives to depart from the space. In an Oct. 22 tweet, Bougalis noted that: “my decade-long journey at Ripplehas been a fantastic (if exhausting and all-consuming) one. I got to work on a project that I love, towards a goal I believe in. But that journey will be coming to an end....


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