At the APEX 2025 event in Singapore, Ripple’s leadership revealed plans to launch the XRP Ledger’s Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) sidechain in the second quarter of the year, aiming to enhance smart contract functionality and ecosystem expansion.
Since the testnet rollout earlier this year, the EVM sidechain has seen swift growth, with 87 new participants entering the network without prior XRP involvement, according to Peersyst Technologies.
These new contributors span infrastructure, decentralized applications, and community-building initiatives. The mainnet launch will fold these developments into the XRPL ecosystem, creating one of the largest influxes of new users and projects to date.
This sidechain is designed to support Ethereum-compatible DeFi tools, allowing users to generate yields and interact with liquidity pools using XRPL technology.
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