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Ripple Says XRPL Needs Protocol-Level Privacy for Institutional Adoption

  • —RippleX named privacy a key requirement for XRPL growth at XRP Seoul 2026
  • —Confidential Transfers hide MPT amounts and balances via EC-ElGamal and ZK proofs
  • —Validators verify transactions without seeing amounts; designated auditors can decrypt
  • —XRPL 3.3.0 introduced ConfidentialTransfer for amendment voting
Why it matters: Selective confidentiality could open XRPL to bank and institutional DeFi use cases, but the amendment still needs validator approval.
Source: Coinpaper