Ripple Veteran Nik Bougalis Returns to Rewrite XRP Ledger Core
- —Bougalis opened PR #8300 in the XRPLF/rippled repository titled "I'm back, baby"
- —The changes move foundational data types to 64-bit elements and remove unsafe raw pointers
- —Ripple CTO Emeritus David Schwartz endorsed the return
- —Bougalis was Ripple's eighth employee, left in 2022 and served as CTO of the Algorand Foundation in 2025
Why it matters: The return of a key developer strengthens XRPL's engineering base as RWA integration and U.S. regulation evolve.
Source: U.Today