{"id":77415,"date":"2026-03-23T22:31:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T22:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=77415"},"modified":"2026-03-23T22:31:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T22:31:31","slug":"whats-going-on-between-the-xrp-and-solana-community-on-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=77415","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s Going On Between The XRP And Solana Community On X?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A weekend controversy involving a Solana executive has brought two of crypto\u2019s largest ecosystems, XRP and Solana, closer on X social media. The light-hearted exchange also drew attention from a former Ripple executive<\/a>, whose response fueled the drama, adding humor and signaling the growing tensions between the two communities, both socially and technically.\u00a0<\/p>\n

XRP And Solana Spark Playful Drama On X<\/h2>\n

The XRP and Solana communities found themselves in an unexpected but friendly territory on X recently after comments from a top executive ignited a chain reaction that pulled both ecosystems into a playful conversation. Solana Foundation<\/a> President Lily Liu sparked debate over the weekend after publicly stating<\/a> that blockchain gaming was not making a comeback following news that Meta had shut down their Metaverse VR project.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The remark generated strong reactions and jokes from community members and SOL users. One member wrote<\/a> that they had been \u201ccrying all morning because of the Solana Foundation,\u201d claiming that Liu\u2019s statement that blockchain gaming<\/a> is declining was only part of the issue. They also alleged that Solana had copied their game, before jokingly asking which chain they should switch to.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Responding to the user, SOL\u2019s official X account humorously hinted at XRP, saying<\/a>, \u201cWe hear XRP is nice this time of the year.\u201d Soon after, XRP-friendly crypto exchange Bitrue amplified the joke with a cheeky response, stating, \u201cXRP is nice this time of year, and XRP is also nice all year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bitrue\u2019s friendly remark sparked an immediate reaction from Ripple\u2019s former Chief Technology Officer (CTO), David Schwartz, who responded<\/a> with a meme GIF that read \u201cYou\u2019re goddamn right.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Underlying Connection Between XRP And SOL<\/h2>\n

The playful exchange between the XRP and Solana community on X reflects a deeper relationship between the two ecosystems that extends beyond typical social media banter. Although both cryptocurrencies can be seen as rivals in terms of market capitalization and exchange-traded funds (ETFs)<\/a>, XRP and SOL have been technically intertwined for years now.<\/p>\n

As proof of its integration, in 2024, XRP was integrated into the SOL blockchain via Hex Trust\u2019s wrapped XRP token, wXRP<\/a>, enabling XRP\u2019s liquidity to be used within the Solana DeFi ecosystem and traded alongside the Ripple USD stablecoin, RLUSD<\/a>. The launch involved LayerZero, an interoperability protocol, for cross-chain messaging and debuted with more than $100 million in liquidity, marking a significant expansion of XRP into Solana\u2019s high-throughput environment<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Beyond wXRP, XRP\u2019s multichain expansion strategies tie it to SOL and other ecosystems. Ripple has pursued<\/a> broader cross-chain interoperability, including working with protocols like Wormhole<\/a> that connect the XRP Ledger (XRPL) to more than 35 blockchains, including Solana, enabling tokens and dApps to interact across networks.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Industry observers in 2025 also noted that Ripple executives have publicly acknowledged<\/a> the influence of SOL\u2019s engineering approach on development discussions with the XRP Ledger community. They suggested that XRPL can learn from Solana in terms of speed and pragmatism as XRP evolves.<\/p>\n

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A weekend controversy involving a Solana executive has brought two of crypto\u2019s largest ecosystems, XRP and Solana, closer on X social media. The light-hearted exchange also drew attention from a former Ripple executive, whose response fueled the drama, adding humor and signaling the growing tensions between the two communities, both socially and technically.\u00a0 XRP And […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-77415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}