Ripple Lead Engineer Leaves After 10 Years at the Firm – What's Going On?
Source: AdobeStock / MigrenArt Software engineer and cryptographer Nik Bougalis has announced that he is leaving Ripple after nearly 10 years at the firm. Joined a growing list of crypto leaders who are leaving their executive roles in the industry amid the ongoing crypto crash, Bougalis said in a Saturday tweet that his role as Ripple’s chief engineer will come to an end in a "few weeks." “My decade-long journey at Ripple has been a fantastic (if exhausting and all-consuming) one. I got to work on a project that I love, towards a goal I believe in. But that journey will be coming to an end in a few weeks,” he tweeted. At Ripple, Bougalis mainly worked on open-source code projects for the payments XRP Ledger, also known as XRPL. He has also overseen a series of major developments to the ledger&rsquo ;s code base including the introduction of NFTs, which is scheduled to go live in November. One of the key recent developments th...