The official birthday of ripple:native in June 2nd where XRP WILL TURN 14 YEARS OLD.
On that exact date, co-founder Arthur Britto submitted the specific lines of code that created the fixed supply of 100 billion XRP tokens. The XRP Ledger (XRPL) itself officially went live that same month.
Key Milestones in XRP's Early History:
Early 2011: Developers David Schwartz, Jed McCaleb, and Arthur Britto began building a faster, more energy-efficient alternative to Bitcoin ("Bitcoin without mining").
June 2, 2012: The 100 billion XRP tokens were officially created at inception.
September 2012: The founders brought on Chris Larsen and formed the company NewCoin (which was quickly renamed OpenCoin, and later became Ripple Labs). The founders gifted 80 billion XRP to the company to develop the ecosystem.