Ripple CTO clarifies XRPLF’s lack of authority in determining XRP Ledger validators, raising debates on decentralization in the crypto community. The chief technology officer (CTO) of Ripple, David Schwartz, has clarified that the XRP Ledger Foundation (XRPLF) has no enforceable right to decide who can and can’t run a validator on the XRP Ledger. The The post Ripple CTO Says XRPLF Has No Enforceable Right to Decide Who Can Run a Validator first appeared on The Crypto Basic .