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Is XRP Coming To Cardano? Founder Sparks Speculation After Midnight Airdrop

Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson has teased about a potential XRP ￰0￱ follows the launch of the Midnight airdrop, which also involved the XRP ecosystem and six other networks besides ￰1￱ Founder Comments On XRP Integration During an AMA session , the Cardano founder said that his network’s native wallet, Lace, will add support for XRP before the end of the ￰2￱ move is expected to expand XRP’s adoption as it would make it easier for Cardano natives to own the altcoin. However, Hoskinson didn’t say anything about natively integrating XRP onto the network for DeFi purposes, similar to how it has become a DeFi layer for Bitcoin . Furthermore, the Cardano founder revealed that he had a great conversation with Ripple’s CEO, Brad Garlinghouse , hinting at the possibility of other collaborations besides the Lace wallet support for ￰3￱ had even remarked that it would be fun to do something with the XRP ￰4￱ line with this, the Cardano founder raised the possibility of organizing an event with stakeholders in the XRP community, including John ￰5￱ suggested that this event could happen before the end of the year.

However, he didn’t provide further details of what the event could look like. Meanwhile, Deaton has already indicated that he is open to the idea of this event, which the Cardano founder talked ￰6￱ an X post , he said that it would be an honor and a pleasure to be present, working with Hoskinson and other leaders within the crypto ￰7￱ also responded to Deaton’s comment, indicating that they could work towards setting up the ￰8￱ is worth mentioning that this isn’t the first time the Cardano founder has hinted at an XRP integration and ￰9￱ June, he said that there is a “whole XRP package with the glacier drop, lace wallet support, XRP DeFi, and the RealUSD talks.” Based on this, the XRP DeFi and RLUSD stablecoin plans may still be in the ￰10￱ Highlights Midnight Drop Success The Cardano founder also discussed the success of the Midnight airdrop so ￰11￱ claimed that over 1.6 billion NIGHT tokens have been redeemed so ￰12￱ also declared that the airdrop is one of the largest ever in crypto history, if not the ￰13￱ airdrop went live earlier this month, with XRP, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, BNB, AVAX, and BAT holders also being eligible for the airdrop alongside ADA ￰14￱ Cardano founder indicated how this move has helped to boost his network’s relationship with other ￰15￱ also touched on the possibility of getting stakeholders in these ecosystems to promote the Midnight project ￰16￱ the time of writing, the Cardano price is trading at around $0.9063, down over 1% in the last 24 hours, according to data from CoinMarketCap.

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