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As XRP's official X account went live, Ripple President Monica Long shared a message celebrating the people who built around XRP before its broader potential became obvious
Engaging with the XRP official account's post, Long wrote on X: "The best part has been watching people build on something before it was obvious. Welcome @xrp!" Long added, celebrating the latest social media milestone while highlighting the importance of early builders who continued developing around the digital asset before it attracted wider recognition
The best part has been watching people build on something before it was obvious. Welcome @xrp!
Long's comments pointed to the role developers, builders, and community members play in growing the XRP ecosystem. The cryptocurrency has 8,247,694 addresses, a sign of the ecosystem's growth, according to XRP Scan
On October 19, 2026 in a historic milestone, XRP's official X account went live under the @XRP handle after more than a decade, drawing enthusiastic reactions from Ripple executives and the wider XRP community. This marks more than 14 years after the XRP Ledger was initially launched
In 2011, three engineers—David Schwartz, Jed McCaleb, and Arthur Britto—began developing the XRP Ledger (XRPL), which later launched for the first time in June 2012
"This one has been a long time coming," Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse said in reaction to the debut of the official XRP X account
In an earlier post, Hussein Zangana (Vet) hinted at many great announcements lately from big companies and institutions around XRP and the XRP Ledger. "I think this will probably accelerate in the coming weeks," he added
In this regard, Vet urged the XRP community to be cautious of scammers using vanity addresses and tokens to sell to them in exchange for real XRP/RLUSD
Users are urged to treat everything offered, or that they see on explorers, as suspicious by default. They can only know if an XRP account or asset is legitimate if the institution or company discloses it on their official press sites; in other words, they should verify all information from official sources
