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XRP Ledger Goes Full DeFi: EVM Sidechain & Axelar Bridge Go Live in 2025
XRP Ledger Goes Full DeFi: EVM Sidechain & Axelar Bridge Go Live in 2025
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Ripple’s sleeping giant wakes up swinging—XRP Ledger just plugged into Ethereum’s ecosystem with an EVM-compatible sidechain. Smart contracts finally go live after years of ’any day now’ promises from the team.
Axelar partnership cuts through interoperability headaches, letting XRP bypass the usual bridge risks. TradFi banks watching from the sidelines now face a brutal choice: adapt or get stuck settling 1990s-era transactions.
One problem solved, another created—now institutional investors can’t blame ’lack of utility’ when XRP still underperforms BTC. The ledger’s ready. The liquidity’s there. No more excuses.
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