XRP Poised To Dominate New DeFi Cycle, XRPL Validator Says
XRP’s decentralized finance ecosystem is growing fast. Its FXRP supply is closing in on 160 million tokens, a milestone that signals rising adoption just months after launch — and the numbers are fueling a broader argument about where XRP A portion of the FXRP supply is already locked into protocols including Firelight, Kinetic, BlazeSwap, and Upshift. XRP holders are using these platforms for yield and liquidity, marking the early stages of an ecosystem that continues to build out through Flare Network’s staking infrastructure. Not everyone accepted Vet’s framing without question. Hugo Philion, the founder of Flare Network, pushed back on what he saw as premature claims of superiority. Philion said he supports both XRP and the XRP Ledger, but argued that no protocol earns the right to claim it is better until it has been put through real pressure at real scale. As you know I am a big believer in XRPL and XRP but this kind of grave dancing is extremely unseemly especially as various protocols have had issues and bugs when being rolled out on XRP Ledger. Before commenting on the superiority of protocol design choices etc you would need… — Hugo Philion (@HugoPhilion) April 20, 2026 He pointed out that multiple crypto protocols — including those tied to XRPL — have run into bugs and rollout problems.Flare Founder Fires Back
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DeFi, he said, is still maturing across the board, and XRP’s entry into the space should be seen as part of that wider development, not a leap ahead of it.
Vet responded by clarifying his position. He was not arguing that XRP beats the competition outright.
His point, he said, was about managing downside risk — and that the trade-offs baked into the XRP Ledger are intentional choices, not shortcomings.
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