Ripple is banking on the XRP Army’s trust. That’s the upshot of the XRP issuer’s new lending market that will allow holders of the $163 billion cryptocurrency to lend out their tokens and earn yield directly on the XRP Ledger blockchain. The loans will be uncollaterialised, managed by onchain contracts, and are part of Ripple’s push to drive adoption of decentralised finance on XRPL. “If there’s one large untapped asset that the XRP Ledger has, it’s the XRP Army,” Jasmine Cooper, Ripple’s director of ...