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David Schwartz, CTO Emeritus at Ripple and one of the original designers of the XRPL, moved to dispel rumors circulating in the XRP community about a possible independent venture. He responded that he was “too lazy” to launch his own startup, a remark that effectively ended speculation that had been circulating since Schwartz formalized his transition to the role of CTO Emeritus in late 2025.
Rather than stepping away, Schwartz said he remains active within the ecosystem. He is not building a new project from scratch, but instead working on the existing foundation of the XRP Ledger and contributing to the network’s operational stability.
This week, Schwartz published performance data for the first time in a long while from his personal XRPL node, covering the past 14 days. The release prompted an in-depth technical debate about imperfections in rippled, the software that runs the XRP Ledger.
The discussion highlighted a paradoxical behavior: two servers located in the same data center can achieve such low latency that the XRPL’s protection algorithm interprets the high-speed exchange as a DDoS attack and terminates the connection. Schwartz acknowledged the issue, also using an ironic tone.
With XRP trading at around $1.30 and the legal disputes with the SEC described as firmly in the past, Schwartz remains, de facto, a central technical reference for the protocol. His decision not to divert efforts into a parallel project was framed as a signal of continuity for investors, suggesting there is no intention to split attention or liquidity across competing initiatives within the ecosystem he has spent more than a decade building.
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