Hold onto your Bitcoin, folks! Ripple’s big cheese, David Schwartz-yes, the CTO with a name almost as long as a blockchain-has been tinkering with his latest masterpiece: a shiny new “hub server” meant to make the XRP Ledger the Iron Man of digital money. 💪💸
Now, he’s been playing in the sandbox, testing it out, and guess what? It’s almost ready for prime time-like a microwave dinner, but for blockchain! Just a tiny hiccup here and there, a little latency spike, some bandwidth drama-nothing an almost-CEO can’t fix before the Launch Party. 🎉
Schwartz’s Hub Server Almost Ready: The Saga Continues
In a thrilling update, Schwartz reports the system ran smoother than a buttered otter for 24 hours straight! There was a teeny spike in latency-probably just a temp fan belt slip-and some bandwidth got shy, hiding behind a monitoring glitch. Typical tech stuff, right? He says, “No worries, folks, the server’s as solid as my mustache.” 🤓
He’s, of course, working on beefing up the monitoring system so we don’t get another ‘surprise’ bandwidth drop. Because nobody likes surprises… unless it’s a surprise birthday party, but this ain’t that. 🎂
“Here’s the past 24 hours. All good. There is one spike in latency that only affected a few links that were already poor. The tiny drop in network b/w appears to be a monitoring dropout and doesn’t show on the switch port’s monitoring. I think we’re nearly production ready.” – David ‘JoelKatz’ Schwartz (@JoelKatz) August 17, 2025
So Schwartz is running a hub server to keep those XRPL nodes from going “Alone in the Dark.” He’s been away from the production servers for a bit, but now, oh boy, he’s having a blast-like a kid in a candy store, but with more code and less sugar.
Kaiko’s Snack Pack: Security Woes for XRPL
Meanwhile, in the less-than-glittery corner of the crypto world, Kaiko dropped a bomb: XRPL is the bottom of the security barrel with a score of 41 out of 100. Yep, behind Polygon (44) and Stellar (45)-way worse than Ethereum, which is the popular kid at 83. 🏆
Highlights of the horror show? A hacker session earlier this year, a tiny validator club, and a Nakamoto coefficient so low you’d think it was a limbo contest. Basically, if a few shady characters get together, they could take over the whole network. Not exactly Fortress of Solitude material. 🕵️♂️
But don’t cry for XRPL just yet-there are plans! Improvements, upgrades, and a whole lot of hope to turn it into the Hulk of blockchains. 💥
Schwartz’s Master Plan: Making XRPL Bulletproof (Well, Almost)
Long ago, Schwartz said the magic ingredient would be a super high-quality hub-reserved for validators, other hubs, and your favorite app servers-like VIP entrance only. Fancy! 🎩✨
Plus, XRPL’s still a free-for-all-public and permissionless, but with some extra lipstick for regulated uses. This thing’s got its eye on being the backbone of the world’s money system, no joke. 💰🌐
Future plans? More programmability, shiny compliance tools, and liquidity so deep you’d need a submarine to reach the bottom. The XRP revolution is coming-faster, stronger, and possibly with more coffee. ☕🚀
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2025-08-18 16:08