{"id":914162,"date":"2026-06-20T10:12:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T15:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/20\/ripplex-engineer-says-the-market-stopped-talking-lawsuits-and-started-talking-xrp\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T10:12:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T15:12:31","slug":"ripplex-engineer-says-the-market-stopped-talking-lawsuits-and-started-talking-xrp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/20\/ripplex-engineer-says-the-market-stopped-talking-lawsuits-and-started-talking-xrp\/","title":{"rendered":"RippleX Engineer Says the Market Stopped Talking Lawsuits and Started Talking XRP"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ayo Akinyele, Head of Engineering at RippleX, says the crypto market has moved past the legal noise that once overshadowed XRP and is now paying attention to what the technology can actually do.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the market is very much shifting back to technology because the use cases are real,\u201d Akinyele said in a recent interview on the Thinking Crypto Podcast.<\/a><\/p>\n

He explained that years of SEC headlines pulled focus away from institutional interest that was quietly building underneath. \u201cWhat has happened over the last few years is that the SEC headlines sort of distracted people from the institutional demand that was kind of an undercurrent,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd I think because that\u2019s out of the way, those use cases are now coming to fruition.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Akinyele, institutions are gravitating toward the XRP Ledger specifically because it is decentralized and built around low-friction financial primitives that are harder to access elsewhere. He pointed to cheap settlement, low fees, and fast, predictable execution times as the core advantages drawing real-world use cases on-chain.<\/p>\n

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JPMorgan, Mastercard, and Ondo Finance Pilot Tokenized Treasuries on XRPL<\/strong><\/p>\n

Akinyele also addressed a recent collaboration involving Ripple, JPMorgan, Mastercard, and Ondo Finance, where tokenized treasuries were used to fund cross-border transactions on the XRP Ledger.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think because of Ripple\u2019s reputation as a financial institutional home of sorts, I think it was a natural progression of the things that Ripple had been invested in,\u201d he said. He described the pilot as built around XRPL\u2019s low-friction approach to tokenizing assets, with the real value coming once those assets need to move.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce the assets are tokenized, then it becomes about the movement of those assets,\u201d Akinyele said. \u201cThe mobility, the settlement times, the ability to connect on-chain markets with off-chain systems, that\u2019s really where all of this is still coming together.\u201d<\/p>\n

He highlighted the ability to manage liquidity around tokenized treasuries and cash out quickly as a standout feature of the partnership. \u201cI think that is something to be able to do quickly, and sort of without some of the friction that we\u2019ve seen in traditional finance,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Beyond Payments: XRPL as a Digital Asset Manager<\/strong><\/p>\n

Akinyele described the ledger\u2019s evolving role as something closer to a digital asset manager, encompassing not just treasuries but credit markets and stablecoins as well, including Ripple\u2019s own RLUSD.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that is a good comparison,\u201d he said when asked if the XRP Ledger now functions as an on-chain asset manager. \u201cThe management piece also includes the credit markets. So it\u2019s all wrapped into just one-stop shop where you can get all sides of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said that Ondo Finance\u2019s OUSG treasury fund and Mastercard\u2019s multi-token network are both represented on XRPL, reinforcing the ledger\u2019s role as connective infrastructure between traditional finance and on-chain systems.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not trying to replace the existing financial infrastructure,\u201d Akinyele said. \u201cWe\u2019re trying to just upgrade it in a way that we can unlock more without actually changing what\u2019s on the surface.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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