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The XRP Ledger Foundation, a nonprofit organization that contributes to, grows, and advocates for the XRP Ledger and its community, said in a May 8 post on X that it is entering a more public phase of collaboration across the XRP ecosystem. The update introduced a team managing daily operations, engineering coordination, and community engagement.
The Foundation said the organization exists to support the XRP Ledger and everyone shaping it, adding that it is introducing “the new team driving that work day-to-day — the people you’ll be hearing from, building with, and running into at events throughout the year.”
Brett Mollin leads the organization as executive director. The Foundation said his role includes setting strategic direction, working with the board on long-term priorities, and coordinating engineering, community, operations, and partnerships.
Denis Angell, described as one of the most active contributors to the XRPL codebase, is transitioning from XRPL Labs to become chief technology officer. The Foundation said he will lead engineering work, including technical direction, amendment development, standards, and production contributions.
Rene Huijsen serves as director of operations. The Foundation said he handles financial coordination and supports the operating structure behind the team’s work. It added that he previously spent years at Ripple as director of payment operations and participated in the Bank for International Settlements Cross-border Payments Interoperability and Extension task force.
Hussein Zangana, known as Vet, leads community efforts across communications, social presence, validator and developer engagement, events, liaison work, and content creation. The Foundation said his background includes infrastructure work, amendment proposals, documentation, education, X Spaces, livestreams, and XRP Cafe.
The Foundation said the appointments align with a broader push toward public collaboration across the XRP Ledger ecosystem. Rather than framing the update as a routine personnel announcement, the post connected the team rollout to collaboration involving developers, validators, infrastructure operators, and community advocates.
According to the post, collaboration is central to the organization’s direction. The Foundation said it wants to build and advocate alongside the XRP community while strengthening the layers of participants working toward a shared vision. It also said the group is signaling a more active public role in coordinating technology, community engagement, advocacy, and ecosystem participation around the XRP Ledger.
“We’re starting to collaborate with XRP ecosystem stakeholders to advance every area of community and technology — openly, transparently and with the public.”
The organization said the leadership group will represent its work across ecosystem discussions, development efforts, and public events throughout the year.
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