The XRP Ledger (XRPL) has secured a place among the top 10 NFT blockchains just six months after NFT functionality came to the network.
The XRP Ledger welcomed native NFT functionality when the XLS-20 amendment went live on the network in late October 2022. Six months in, over 1.4 million non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have been minted on the network, making it one of the top 10 NFT chains in the crypto scene.
RippleX, the development team behind the XRP Ledger, first drew attention to the achievement in a recent tweet as it sought to highlight the network’s progress in NFT adoption.
1/ XLS-20 went live on mainnet six months ago, bringing native NFT functionality to the #XRPLedger. The developer and creator communities have been thriving with exciting projects, new use cases and collections coming to life on the #XRPL. https://t.co/tmmb2vo31t
— RippleX (@RippleXDev) May 15, 2023
Bithomp, an XRPL explorer, corroborates these claims of expansive growth. Data from the explorer suggests that the XRP Ledger has welcomed 1,409,434 (1.4 million) NFTs in six months, with up to…