Vet, an XRP Ledger validator, tucks out a toothy grin and shares gleeful highlights from the just-wrapped XRP Las Vegas, a sparkling two-day shindig that danced from April 30 to May 1.
A fireside chat with Ripple CTO emeritus David Schwartz-an original architect of the XRP Ledger-was the star of the show, a kettle of bright stories and a few cheeky pretzels of memory.
Back in 2011, the merry trio-David Schwartz, Jed McCaleb, and Arthur Britto-began conjuring the XRP Ledger. They were bitten by Bitcoin’s bright tale, but they wanted a brighter, better version-more sustainable, built specifically for payments, and ready to skip merrily into the future on a bicycle made of trust and speed.
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Fireside chat with David Schwartz at XRP Vegas, full of zippy reminiscences of the very early days and the Ripple uproar. He mumbles about a new notion: AI that pries open doors to the social credit feature on the XRP Ledger, by rippling trustlines between people like a mischievous, invisible thread.
– Vet (@Vet_X0) May 1, 2026
The XRP Ledger first sprang into the world in June 2012. Soon after, the merry trio, with Chris Larsen tagging along, started a company called NewCoin in September 2012. It sashayed into OpenCoin and finally settled on the name Ripple, like a dog that finally finds its homely sofa.
Sticking his hat on the very front of XRP’s bicycle, Schwartz remains the grand storyteller, with twinkly eyes and a voice that knows every corner of the tale.
At XRP Vegas, he rattled off anecdotes of the early days, before and during Ripple, while hinting at a gleeful new idea: AI to break the barriers and cheerfully use the social credit feature on the XRP Ledger, by rippling trustlines between people like a mischievous, invisible thread.
AI in spotlight at XRP event
AI takes a star turn: Chandler Fang, cofounder of t54ai and former Ripple product wrangler, teased at XRP Las Vegas about conjuring an agentic economy on the XRPL. In February, the x402 facilitator sprang to life on the XRP Ledger, letting AI agents pay for services with XRP and RLUSD-no API keys, no accounts, just a twinkling wink of automation.
AI agents are stepping out of the backroom, from shy recommendations to bold execution-paying for APIs, hiring other agents, tallying balances, sorting out jobs, and dashing about for users. And this, dear reader, needs more than a wallet: a proper trust layer with agent identity, risk checks, a pinch of credit, and a dash of accountability when something goes wrong.
Fang sketches a rosy, roly-poly vision: this next layer on the XRPL, where agent-native transactions are so trustworthy they could be sold as fairy dust. Scale, yes, with a wink and a nod.
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2026-05-02 14:07