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Major Ripple (XRP) Reveal From Seoul: XRPL Gets Privacy, AI Agent Upgrades, and More
Speaking at XRP Seoul 2026, Ripple's Senior Director of Engineering, Ayo Akinyele, outlined an engineering roadmap centered around trust, privacy, scalability, and AI agent support.
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Key points
- Ripple outlined XRP Ledger upgrades at an Asia conference, including zero-knowledge confidential transfers, transaction batching, formal verification and adversarial testing for institutional use.
- Senior Director of Engineering Ayo Akinyele said AI agents have driven over 11 million XRPL transactions, with infrastructure planned for identities, permissions and smart wallets.
- The keynote described settlement in roughly three to five seconds, following a Bank of International Settlements working paper exploring XRPL for verifying official statistics.
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