Ripple's developers have been engaging with feedback and suggestions that they expand the XRP Ledger, or XRPL, to integrate functionalities such as smart contracts. The latter have become a major feature of the booming decentralized finance space, but Ripple's creators claim that a different solution is better for the payments-focused XRPL.This solution comes in the form of … [Read more...] about Ripple publishes proposal for federated sidechains to keep main ledger lean