In brief

  • XRP Ledger received a security score of 41 out of 100—the lowest among 15 major blockchains—in Kaiko’s Blockchain Ecosystem report released in August.
  • A RippleX leader dismissed the low rating, pointing to XRP Ledger’s strong safety record.
  • XRP Ledger’s software development kit was hit with a supply chain attack in April, but devs say the chain’s codebase was unaffected.

XRP Ledger developers are pushing back against the network’s last-place security rating in a recent ranking of more than a dozen blockchains by research firm Kaiko, reviving a long-standing debate over the cryptocurrency platform’s decentralization and overall trustworthiness.

The Kaiko Blockchain Ecosystem Ranking, released on August 13, assigned XRP Ledger a security score of 41 out of 100, the lowest among the 15 blockchains included in the report. Ethereum topped the ranking with a rating of 83 out of 100, closely trailed by Ethereum layer-2 network Arbitrum and layer-1 network Go to Source to See Full Article
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