RippleX engineer explores potential for native XRP staking as David Schwartz weighs in on future XRPL design

RippleX developer J. Ayo Akinyele and outgoing Ripple CTO David Schwartz outlined how native staking could work on XRPL, while stressing that such ideas remain exploratory and complex.The discussion follows rising XRP activity across DeFi and tokenized markets, alongside last week’s launch of Canary’s first pure spot U.S. XRP ETF.