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Ripple CTO David Schwartz Steps Down, Joins Board for New Role

  • David Schwartz will conclude his 13-year role as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Ripple at the end of the year and join the company’s board of directors.
  • Schwartz plans to focus on hands-on development with the XRP Ledger (XRPL) and explore new use cases for XRP.
  • Key priorities for Schwartz include stablecoins, tokenized assets, and advancing decentralization for XRPL’s future.
  • Schwartz highlighted the independence of the XRP Ledger, emphasizing that control is distributed among multiple global validators.
  • Leadership transition will include increased roles for people like Dennis Jarosch, SVP of Engineering, as Schwartz expresses confidence in Ripple’s next generation of leaders.

David Schwartz, CTO of Ripple, announced he will leave his day-to-day position at the end of this year. Schwartz will remain with the company as a member of its board, where he aims to help develop Ripple’s long-term goals. The transition marks the close of his 13-year tenure as CTO.

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In a statement posted on X, Schwartz called his decision a “personal inflection point” following four decades in technology. He shared, “The time has come for me to step back from my day-to-day duties as Ripple CTO at the end of this year. But be warned, I’m not going away from the XRP community. You haven’t seen the last of me—now or ever.”

Schwartz plans to dedicate more time to running his own XRPL node, publishing data, and researching applications using XRP. He also intends to work on coding community projects. Speaking about his recent activities, he said, “The last few months I’ve been tinkering on the side—spinning up my own XRPL node and publishing its output data, researching other use cases for XRP.”

Looking to the future of XRPL, Schwartz identified areas such as tokenization of real-world assets, institutional stablecoin use, and on-chain enterprise features as significant. He explained, “There will be use cases where digital assets like XRP and Bitcoin make sense… and other cases where a more stable token like RLUSD or another stablecoin will make more sense. You’ll see enterprise use cases in everything from trade finance to tokenized real-world assets.”

Schwartz also addressed misunderstandings about Ripple’s influence over the XRP Ledger, stating, “The XRP Ledger has been running since 2012 with a global set of validators, most of them not affiliated with Ripple at all.” He expressed appreciation for Ripple President Monica Long, Executive Chairman Chris Larsen, SVP of Engineering Dennis Jarosch, and the XRP community. Schwartz said, “I have total confidence in the next generation of leaders and builders, including Dennis Jarosch, Ripple’s senior vice president of engineering, and far too many others to name in the XRP community who will carry the torch.”

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