As it stands, Bitcoin is primarily positioned as the core decentralized settlement layer and a network for storing value. Within the Bitcoin ecosystem, stablecoins and smart contract capabilities rely largely on solutions like the Lightning Network or sidechains/Layer 2 protocols to facilitate complex financial AI applications—such as transaction optimization, risk management, and on-chain data analysis. While Bitcoin itself serves as an "immutable value-recording layer" that acts as a settlement and store-of-value mechanism within the AI ​​economy, the ecosystem as a whole remains in the early stages of development

That's the thing—now they're fixing it. EVM sidechains native DEXs are turning XRPL into a DeFi powerhouse, finally flexing what it was always built for. Weakness? More like a relic.

XRPL has always had a performance advantage, but its biggest weakness in the past has been the lack of a true DeFi engine. If EVM sidechains truly gain traction, then the discussion on utility and liquidity may enter a new phase

Most people still think Bitcoin is the pinnacle of proof-of-work. They haven't looked at Kaspa. Here's what the data actually shows: ↳ Bitcoin: 1 block per 10 minutes ↳ Kaspa: 10 blocks per second — right now, on mainnet ↳ Roadmap target: 100 blocks per second No VC allocation. No pre-mine. No foundation treasury. Fair-launched in November 2021 — the closest thing to early Bitcoin's launch in a decade. The Toccata hard fork (activating June 2026) adds native ZK proofs, covenants, and KRC-20 tokens directly to L1. No rollups. No sidechains. The base layer does it all. The founder, Yonatan Sompolinsky, wrote the academic DAG consensus paper that Ethereum's researchers cited *before* building ETH. This isn't a copy of anything. It's the original research made real. Price is down 83% from ATH. Tech is up 1000% from launch. The market hasn't figured this out yet. What's your reason for not holding kaspa:native ?

@unstoppablebyhs Please support the upcoming ecash fork coin as a wallet option (same codebase as bitcoin, should be easy) and its sidechains (might need some dev work but similar to Bittensor subnets). Thank you

Comparativa de segundas capas y sidechains que complementan a #bitcoin. Liquid, Ark, Spark, Roostock.

AMA (Ask Me Anything) features xrp.cafe, one of the leading marketplaces on the XRP Ledger. ICYMI, we discussed NFT infrastructure, user experience and what 2023 has in store for NFTs on the XRPL. Check out the full recap below, and head to xrpldevs.com to join the community and tune in for the next AMA! BiasGoose: Everyone join me in welcoming tippyfodder and xrpl_Adam from xrp.cafe to the first XRPL Developers AMA of 2023! Also congratulate them for being a wave 4 grantee! Just announced 10 minutes before this. Such excellent timing. Please introduce yourselves briefly and your project please. Tippyfodder: I'm Chris, the product designer at the cafe. I made the UI. xrpl_Adam: Hey everybody, I'm Adam the lead developer at xrp.cafe. We're focused on bringing mass adoption of NFTs and enterprise utility to the XRPL! Thanks for having us Goose 🙂 Tippyfodder: Super excited to be here. BiasGoose: Awesome! Welcome guys. Happy to have you here. Can you tell us a bit about your background before the xrp.cafe? Tippyfodder: I've been working on consumer and enterprise applications for several years. Mostly I focus on design systems. I live in the Pacific Northwest. xrpl_Adam: I've been a developer since 2005, I got into crypto/ethereum/EVM development in 2017 and have been a long-time holder of XRP and supporter of the XRPL ecosystem and went pretty much exclusively into XRPL development in 2021. BiasGoose: That's great! I am a huge fan of both of your works! Before we dive into the community questions, tell us how the idea for xrp.cafe came about. Tippyfodder: Moonkie hit me up on twitter xrpl_Adam: So xrp.cafe came about partly because of the hole in the marketplace space that we wanted to fill when Clever Gallery switched chains, so it was a natural fit that the PARC team and xShrooms team came together to fill that void and really build out something that we saw as badly needed for the XRPL. Both in terms of usability and in terms of creating a great experience for NFTs in a standard that is so new. BiasGoose: That makes sense! It was great to see two projects with a following already coming together to figure out what they needed in a marketplace and build it! One question for tippy before we dive into the community questions which I think may be more for Adam. Tippy, what were some things you prioritized when making the xrp.cafe experience what it is? While I may be biased, I think your UX is possibly the best one out there for NFT marketplaces. I am a fan of very simple and clean experiences, for example I generally choose Looksrare for trading NFTs on a different chain and I find the xrp.cafe experience somewhat similar. Tippyfodder: Logical priorities in how we build features, starting with the most basic buy/sell experience. Now I'm focusing on the browsing experience with the creator experience next. Using a system is also very important. When there is a need the system should provide. Making it up as we go is also important. BiasGoose: How is xrp.cafe attracting collections to its marketplace? And do you curate collections? If so, what is the process? xrpl_Adam: We've had a lot of organic attention to the marketplace, so we've had a lot of projects and collections reach out to us for help in facilitating the onboarding process. Adding an existing collection is as easy as connecting your issuer wallet and basically just hitting a button and filling out a few fields. The only curation we do is having a verified badge for certain collections that we feel pass our own verification process in terms of KYC/dox and other metrics we use to attempt to keep users safe in the process. We'll be rolling out some more content curation features in the next year to help users be able to filter and see content according to their interests. BiasGoose: Are there any projects in the pipeline that have to do with music, fine arts or phygital NFTs? xrpl_Adam: Yes, I believe another user in this discord actually has a music collection coming out soon. In terms of fine arts we've been in talks with various artists in order to roll out some physical pieces of art paired with an XRPL NFT as proof of authenticity. BiasGoose: Amazing! I am excited to see those projects flourish on the XRPL. Another question: Is your app built in C#? Did you write your own library? If so, did you write a websocket client? xrpl_Adam: Our tech stack consists of next.js/react nodeJS mysql and then we have various backend services and run several rippled and clio servers. BiasGoose: Here is a fresh question for you: xrp.cafe is now a wave 4 grantee. How do you think this grant will help propel xrp.cafe to the next level? Tippyfodder: For me - more time to work on the project. xrpl_Adam: It's definitely going to help us in terms of building out new features/components and bringing our vision to life on the XRPL. From the start we pretty much saw ourselves as more than just a digital art marketplace and wanted to bring some really interesting enterprise products that will be incorporated into the marketplace later this year. BiasGoose: Can't wait to see that! For both of you: What was the most challenging part in building xrp.cafe? Tippyfodder: Pretty easy so far. xrpl_Adam: One of the hardest things for me at least was coming up with a solid architecture that wouldn't lead to technical debt down the line. Using best practices, scalable architecture design and just putting the first line of code into the screen. Once we got on a good cadence, everything kind of came pretty easy for the most part since we had a solid vision of where we wanted to go. Another challenge was just dealing with clio and rippled—having to wear the system/DevOps hat which admittingly is one of my weaknesses. But it's forced me to learn a lot of new things and become much better in that aspect. Tippyfodder: I think wrapping my head around what's possible with blockchain. How we think about what a connected user is has changed a bit for me. xrpl_Adam: Definitely not a power user with clio, but shout out to the team for helping me a lot with questions I had. BiasGoose: That's great to hear! What do you think sets xrp.cafe apart from other platforms? Tippyfodder: The real answer to this question is coming later this year. xrpl_Adam: We are community centric and really built a solid foundation and are well connected to the community. Community is everything. We have our secret weapon in tippyfodder who is a wizard in usability. I am biased, but I think we have a team that really meshes well that have different skills and we're almost always on the same page in terms of vision, so we've been able to move really quickly through a lot of other projects. BiasGoose: Having that type of environment in a team is very underrated! It really gets things moving at a different pace. One last question before we start closing out this AMA! What are you looking forward to the most in terms of the XRPL or projects in 2023, and why? xrpl_Adam: I'm just excited every day to see this space grow so rapidly… Things like XLS-30, hooks and EVM sidechains are really going to open the door to a lot of possibilities—not just for us but for everybody building on the XRPL. Tippyfodder: I would love to see more art in all its forms and to see that art find new areas of expression through technology and community. Basically I want to see us nerds and artists mix it up and make cool stuff. xrpl_Adam: I would also add that it's very difficult to keep up with everybody building. There's so many underrated projects that haven't gotten much attention. Apex is always a great venue to learn/see what people are building and wish there were more developer centric XRPL events. BiasGoose: Amazing! I wanted to thank you @xrpl_Adam and @tippyfodder for coming on here and speaking with the community! For those looking to follow xrp.cafe more closely follow them on twitter! They always host spaces and events .dev.to/ripplexdev/xrpcafe-am…

Since it's coarse co-fold we only have the backbone structure without sidechains. I wanted to go for a "fluorescent optical fibre" rendering. Trick to getting this right (after a few iterations) was 1) transparent backbone "cartoon" tube 2) principled BSDF shader to get the self-emission glow 3) kill some competing light by bumping up surface roughness

Shopping the new @spacebull @madexforever collection at the @BULLBITCOIN_ booth in Prague using Noah wallet. Self-custody lightning. No channels. No sidechains. Love the clothes, great cut on the sleeves.

Sidechains for Bitcoin are a neat idea but will it actually get used or just another niche thing? Market usually picks simple and secure over feature bloat.

Forget changing Bitcoin. @Vladcostea tells @_dsencil and @graminitha1 that drivechains could add privacy, smart contracts, bigger blocks, and more through BTC-powered sidechains. Game changer or pipe dream? 👇

Longer term, sidechains make a lot of sense to me. Use the main chain for security and settlement. Push specialised activity elsewhere. That's generally how successful systems evolve.

7 / 13 — #Runes: The Ethereum Moment for Bitcoin For 15 years Bitcoin's critics said the same thing: "It can't do anything except store value." #Runes just made that argument obsolete. Fungible tokens, native to the UTXO layer. No sidechains. No bridges. No trust assumptions. Just Bitcoin doing something it's never done before. We are at day one of a multi-year repricing event. solana:dog1viwbb2vWDpER5FrJ4YFG6gq6XuyFohUe9TXN65u - Rune ID 3 - got there first. And on-chain data backs it up: Runes has driven as much as 59.6% of all Bitcoin transactions over the past two years 😱 That's not a narrative. That's the ledger speaking.

There will not be two XRP prices. Sidechains may be private, but the asset is identical on-ledger. If institutions require deep liquidity, they must source it from the open market. That means public holders benefit from the same price environment as institutional participants.

small block bitcoin was supposed to scale on higher layers. that never happened. no sidechains, LN is not scaling ownership, timeout trees arguably fail to custody in high congestion... BitVM seems far too impractical to actually see any use.

What will be the consequences of the hard fork provoked by bip110 community when it happens? Lightning Network, all L2s and sidechains, hodlers, exchanges, ETFs, users trust in Bitcoin, price, etc. What do you think?

🚀 XRP driven remittances between Japan and the Philippines are now 60 percent cheaper than SWIFT. 💡 Liquidity pools and EVM based sidechains are bringing new technology and smart contracts to $XRP usage in Asia. ⚡ Major banks and regulators are running new tests as Japan prepares for a digital yen future.

Against the field: • vs Arbitrum/Optimism: EXCEED on structure (no separate VM/bridge/proving stack) • vs ZK rollups: LAG today, MATCH later via the same substrate • vs Solana: ordering half present • vs Celestia: DA already free • vs sidechains: EXCEED on security

Just wanna say with a volunteer force of DReps doing sidechains, budget processes, and hydra tools doesn’t really improve anything in sense of increasing engagement, after 2 years of observation. People will always want bare minimum and least path of resistance, the onchain direct proposal method is the way, change the architecture of you want to force a meaningful change.

• Lightning is trustless, but has no programmability. • Ark has programmability, but only with trust. • Sidechains and "trustless vaults" are trusted. If you want programmability for BTC, the best solution is Bitcoin ZK Rollup. It's just the reality of the situation.