On December 13, 2025, Luke Cadges, the Global Partner Success Lead at Ripple, took the stage at the Solana Breakpoint event, where he explained the multi-chain vision for XRP amid growing demand for the use of XRP across the broader cryptocurrency ecosystem and institutions.
In breaking news from the event, it has been announced that XRP is coming to Solana, where Hex Trust and Layer Zero will build a bridge and issue wXRP, a 1:1 backed representation of the native asset XRP, designed to support decentralized finance (DeFi) activity and cross-chain utility.
This move allows traders, holders, and institutions to use XRP within the leading decentralized exchanges on Solana, lending markets, and liquidity protocols while maintaining exposure to the underlying asset.
Additionally, the use cases for wXRP will expand beyond the XRP Ledger, and it will become tradeable with RLUSD on Ethereum and other chains supporting RLUSD. wXRP expands the utility of XRP in decentralized finance by making it usable on supported chains, starting with Solana, Optimism, Ethereum, Hyper EVM, and additional chains for future integration.
In today's session at the Breakpoint event, Judges added the finishing touch, stating: "20 million Phantom wallet users can now access XRP, and perpetual contracts (perps) can now include XRP deeply."
This latest move comes in response to the growing demand for using XRP across the larger crypto ecosystem and institutions, as highlighted by Judges in his talk.
### Vision of the Multi-Chain XRP Ledger
In a recent tweet, G Ayo Akiniyeli, the Chief Engineer of Ripple X, shared his thoughts on the XRP Ledger, stating that his discussions with David Schwartz, the Chief Technology Officer at Ripple, over the years have focused on building a multi-chain future.
According to Akiniyeli, the blockchain ecosystem is changing, and it has become clear that assets and applications operate seamlessly across multiple networks. There is no single environment that will contain all activity, and this is simply how cryptocurrencies have evolved.
In this scenario, a strong main network, such as the XRP Ledger, remains essential and non-negotiable, adding that the core network underpins trust, providing the stability, security, and predictable behavior that everything built on top of it relies upon.
From the perspective of the Chief Engineer of Ripple X, the next phase of cryptocurrencies will not define a single chain but ecosystems that maintain a strong foundation while enabling cross-chain innovation.
