Sidechains pay, XRPL won’t — the real tug-of-war over staking and XRP’s future

For more than a decade, the XRP Ledger (XRPL) has, for one reason or another, stood apart from the rest of the blockchain industry. Built in 2012, long before the rise of modern DeFi, it embraced a minimalist design of fast settlement, deterministic consensus, and no economic incentives for validators. source: https://cryptoslate.com/xrpl-sidechain-staking-xrp-yield/