XRP Ledger Gets a Brooksian Makeover! 🚀💰

Well, slap my ledger and call me optimized! In a move that’s more exciting than a polka festival, RippleX software engineer Mayukha Vadari (aka the XRP Whisperer) dropped a tweet that’ll make your tokens tingle. 🌟 Over the next few weeks, she’s unleashing a barrage of specs that’ll have the XRP community dancing in the streets-or at least furiously debating on Twitter. 📊💃

Over the past few weeks, I’ve realized that a number of specs sitting in my drafts may actually be useful for discussion. So over the next few weeks I’ll be publishing them as Ideas (I don’t quite have the time to polish them, but hey, who needs polish when you’ve got genius? 🧠✨).
Here’s the first of those:

– Mayukha Vadari (@msvadari) September 11, 2025

First up? Optimized accounts and trustlines! 🎉 This proposal is like a spa day for your ledger-minor changes, major relaxation. Unlike the clunky XLS-23d, this bad boy doesn’t limit accounts, doesn’t require a flag (unless it’s a pirate flag 🏴‍☠️), and doesn’t force you into complicated conversions. It’s like upgrading from a tricycle to a spaceship, but without the motion sickness. 🚀

And get this-accounts will only be charged for the resources they use! It’s like a buffet where you only pay for what’s on your plate. No more full reserves for half-eaten accounts. 🍽️💸

MPTs: The New Kids on the Blockchain

XRP enthusiast Krippenreiter (aka Captain Obvious) chimed in, saying it’d be “awesome to see new ideas for optimizing the Ledger.” 🕵️‍♂️ He also wondered if MPTs would replace trustlines or if they’d coexist like a blockchain buddy comedy. 🎭

I think we’ll have to wait and see on what the ecosystem prefers – MPTs aren’t even live yet, and there’s still a lot of work to be done to get them to be fully integrated in all XRPL features. IMO there are very few (but nonzero) usecases where trustlines are better than MPTs. But hey, trustlines have feelings too! 😢💔

– Mayukha Vadari (@msvadari) September 11, 2025

Vadari’s response? It’s all up to the community, folks! MPTs are still in the dressing room, but once they hit the stage, they’ll be the Beyoncé of tokens. 🎤✨ Trustlines? They’ll be the backup dancers-still important, but not stealing the spotlight. 💃

For the uninitiated, MPTs (Multi-Purpose Tokens) are like the Swiss Army knives of fungible tokens-compact, flexible, and ready to tackle any ledger task. 🛠️

And in a move that’s more groundbreaking than a Brooksian punchline, Dublin-based FortStock is turning idle warehouse inventory into collateral using MPTs. It’s like turning dust bunnies into gold! 🧹✨

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2025-09-12 15:18