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How David Schwartz and Jed McCaleb Worked Together at Ripple
Early collaboration and shared visionDavid Schwartz and Jed McCaleb united over a bold vision: to revolutionize global payments using blockchain, combining Schwartz’s cryptographic brilliance with McCaleb’s entrepreneurial drive to launch…
Who is Jed McCaleb? A Background on Ripple’s Co-Founder
Early ventures and the creation of Mt. GoxBefore revolutionizing crypto, Jed McCaleb turned a Magic: The Gathering card exchange into Mt. Gox—once the world’s largest Bitcoin exchange—marking his bold entry…
David Schwartz’s Predictions on the Next Generation of Smart Contracts
Evolution of smart contract technologySmart contracts have rapidly evolved from basic automated agreements to complex, interoperable systems poised to revolutionize industries—laying the groundwork for David Schwartz’s bold predictions about their…
Challenges and Limitations of XRPL Hooks
Technical constraints of the XRPL architectureXRPL Hooks face strict execution limits, lack persistent storage, and operate within a deterministic environment, restricting complex logic and dynamic functionalities vital for advanced decentralized…
How Developers Can Start Building with XRPL Hooks
Understanding XRPL HooksXRPL Hooks let developers embed smart contract-like logic directly into the XRP Ledger, enabling automated, trustless transaction rules without requiring external smart contract platforms or centralized intermediaries.Setting up…
XRPL Hooks vs Cardano’s Plutus: A Comparison
Smart contract architecture and designXRPL Hooks offer lightweight, event-driven logic directly on ledger accounts, while Cardano’s Plutus enables full Turing-complete smart contracts using Haskell for complex, on-chain computation and secure…
Why David Schwartz Prioritizes Simplicity in Smart Contract Development
The pitfalls of complexity in smart contractsComplex smart contracts often hide subtle bugs, increase audit challenges, and invite costly exploits—complexity becomes a silent vulnerability that undermines trust and threatens the…