Ripple CTO Emeritus David Schwartz pushed back against claims labeling the XRP Ledger a « ghost chain, » arguing that low transaction fees explain the variety of uses, both useful and otherwise. An X user had claimed that less than 1% of transactions over eight years came from real human payments, with the rest generated by bots. Schwartz posed the question: if fees were higher and fewer people performed low-value operations, would that somehow make the blockchain better? The growing use of the XRP Ledger includes a distributed real-world asset market cap of $458.37 million and over 4.8 million agentic transactions. The dispute appeared to be resolved, with the X user conceding the point on the network’s utility.
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