Breaking: Ripple’s XRPL EVM Sidechain Mainnet is Now Live
2025-06-30 14:16:17
Main Idea
Ripple has announced the launch of the XRPL EVM Sidechain, which offers full EVM compatibility and smart contract support while maintaining a connection to the XRP Ledger's efficiency.
Key Points
1. The XRPL EVM Sidechain is fully compatible with EVM tools like Solidity, MetaMask, and Hardhat.
2. It features a Proof-of-Authority (PoA) consensus with over 25 validators and a block time of 3.4 seconds.
3. XRP serves as the native gas token for the sidechain.
4. The sidechain includes an Axelar bridge for secure interoperability.
5. It focuses on compliance and offers faster block times compared to Ethereum's native chain.
Description
According to an update from Ripple, the long-awaited XRPL EVM Sidechain is now live on mainnet. A few highlights of what this entails include: full EVM compatibility with Solidity, MetaMask, Hardhat, and more PoA consensus and more than 25 validators 3.4 seconds block time and over 1,000 TPS XRP as a native gas token Smart contract support via the Ethereum Virtual Machine Speaking on the matter was David Schwartz, CTO at Ripple and the co-creator of the XRP Ledger, who said : “The XRPL EVM Sidec...
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