Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson not too long ago teased the rollout of a whole “XRP package deal” in his Sunday social media put up.
Glacier Drop is the official identify for Midnight’s large multi-chain airdrop, which was introduced by Hoskinson throughout Consensus 2025 in Toronto.
The huge airdrop is concentrating on roughly 37 million blockchains, together with XRP Ledger. Notably, solely retail customers can be eligible for the airdrop.
The NIGHT governance token and the DUST privacy-focused token can be distributed as a part of the airdrop occasion. XRP holders are eligible for the airdrop by holding the tokens in a qualifying pockets.
As reported by U.In the present day, Hoskinson not too long ago confirmed that Enter Output’s Lace Pockets would additionally add assist for the XRP cryptocurrency. Earlier this 12 months, Cardano’s official light-weight pockets enabled multi-chain performance by including Bitcoin.
The Cardano co-founder has additionally repeatedly praised the Ripple USD (RLUSD) stablecoin, which is also referred to as “Actual USD.” The stablecoin, which was rolled out in December, is presently powered by Ethereum and XRP Ledger, however it might additionally add assist for Cardano sooner or later. Hoskinson beforehand said that he was having discussions with the Ripple staff.
XRP is getting more and more built-in into the Cardano decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem. In late 2024, Hoskinson opined that Cardano might provide XRP some “superb” DeFi elements.
In February, a bridge that helps native XRP went stay through Wanchain.
Regardless of previous disagreements, it looks like the Cardano ecosystem is able to embrace XRP.
