XRPL Code Panic! Why RippleX’s Rusty Plans Won’t Melt Your XRP

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Ah, dear reader, gather round like villagers at the smell of fresh cabbage soup. In the grand, swirling snowstorm that is the XRP community, a peculiar wind has begun to blow. Mayukha Vadari, a senior software engineer at RippleX and, possibly, an undercover confidant of talking roosters, hoisted his digital megaphone to quell the latest peasant panic: no matter what sorcery RippleX cooks up beneath their musty ledgers, not a single digital kopeck of your XRP shall vanish.😌

All of this hullabaloo, mind you, flutters on the heels of statements by none other than Ripple’s CTO, David Schwartz—the man who presumably dreams in cryptographic hashes. Whispers swept through the cyber-boroughs: “Would the XRP Ledger’s heart be sliced open and stitched back together in the Rust language? And if so, what of our shiny coins—expiring, evaporating, or simply blinking out like Mayor Skvoznik-Dmukhanovsky’s spectacles?”

“I’m seeing a lot of FUD around this so PSA: if rippled was rewritten in Rust, or there was a second client in Rust, it wouldn’t do anything to the on-chain data. Nothing would happen to your XRP. Everything about using and building on the XRPL would stay the same, just a change…”

— Mayukha Vadari (@msvadari) August 2, 2025

Terrified investors wiped their spectacles, only to receive the same assurance (now in an even bolder font): the fate of your fortune is not locked in the syntax of some obscure programming tongue. The ledger yawns, unimpressed by technological fashion statements.

With the air thus cleared (or muddier, depending on your persuasion), RippleX pulls from its coat a fresh edition of their magical ledger—version 2.5.0, complete with bug fixes, shiny new features, and surely some extra onions for the soup.

Among these delights: the XLS-85 amendment, at last allowing the ledger’s Escrow to embrace tokens hailing from third-party realms—stablecoins, unruly cousins, and the like. Multi-purpose tokens (MPTs) now poke their noses in, sniffing about, primarily intended for stiff-collared institutions with deep pockets and deeper suspicions.

Does your transactional ballet require bundling? Enter XLS-56, hero to eggheaded accountants everywhere, which stuffs eight dainty transactions into one—like an overfilled pirozhki. Why? To stem the tragic 30% flop rate when folks get too clever with transaction flows.💸

And Now: The Tug-of-War With the Market 👀

The clever clever XRP, despite its technological waltz, limps about the financial stage with a 9.5% weekly drop. The audience gasped, adjusted their monocles, and blamed a U.S. jobs report drier than stale rye bread: a pitiful 73,000 jobs conjured, with previous months revised down as though the numbers themselves had scampered off into the forest.

The world’s risk appetite, already as thin as a priest’s soup during Lent, evaporated—dragging down XRP, Bitcoin, even poor Ethereum, which can always be counted on for melodrama.

And, as if this weren’t enough for your nerves, a fresh batch of China-ban rumors brewed on social media, the sort of unsourced gossip that would make an Odessa babushka blush.

“$XRP continues to pull back after the TD Sequential flashed a sell signal on the 3-day chart. The next key support level to watch is $2.40!”

— Ali (@ali_charts) August 3, 2025

Crypto analyst Ali Martinez (who may or may not read tea leaves) identifies $2.40 as the next magical floor for XRP—a mere number, or a cosmic joke? Time, and possibly another round of amendments, will tell.

So, dear reader, if you awake to news of XRP Ledger rewritten in Icelandic Runes, or even the caterwauls of Java, know this: your XRP continues its strange existence, untouched, unsinged—like the last cabbage in a bureaucrat’s pantry. 🥬

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2025-08-03 19:00