[Ripple Considers Reforming Staking Mechanism to Expand XRP's Role in DeFi] According to Golden Finance, Ripple executives have begun publicly discussing the possibility of introducing XRP into decentralized finance (DeFi) by launching a staking program on its blockchain. These plans aim to align incentive mechanisms between validators and token holders. This idea was first proposed by RippleX Engineering Director J. Ayo Akinyele. RippleX is a project that supports developers in building applications on the XRP Ledger.