[Ripple Veteran Nik Bougalis Returns to XRP Ledger Core Code Development] According to a report by U.Today on September 26, cryptographer Nik Bougalis, who led the development of key protocols for the XRP Ledger for nearly a decade, has officially returned to work on the project's source code. Ripple's retired CTO David Schwartz expressed his support in a brief post on X, which is seen as one of the clearest signals of the significance of this return.