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Matt Hamilton fumes over assertions about XRPLs alleged centralization.

In a tweet today, former Ripple Director Matt Hamilton slammed Token Paddock for asserting that the XRP Ledger (XRPL) has nothing to do with decentralization.

The issue first started after Cyber Capital founder Justin Bons claimed in a recent tweet that XRP, BNB Coin (BNB), and Stellar Lumens (XLM) are centralized due to their permissioned blockchain infrastructure.

To defend the decentralized nature of XRPL, Panos Mekras, author of Understanding the Crypto Economy, noted that XRP Ledger invented decentralized finance. According to Mekras, XRPL was the first blockchain to support tokenized assets, decentralized exchange (DEX), stablecoin, and smart contract features.

Token Paddock countered this claim saying Ethereum was the first to support all the features highlighted by Mekras. The crypto analytical platform added that XRPL is only a payment network andhas nothing to do with decentralization.

The team behind the Token Paddock handle furtherpointed outthatDeFi was coded on Ethereum for [the] first time in the crypto industry [in] 2016.

Notably, Token Paddocks claims infuriated several XRP community members, including former Ripples director of developer relations. Hamilton noted that the team behind the Tokenpaddock seem confused.

He clarified that XRPL had existed for several years before Ethereum was launched. Per Hamilton, Ethereums co-founder Vitalik Buterin used to sleep on the couch of Ripples CTO David Schwartz while making moves to get enrolled as an intern in Ripple.

Notably, in 2019, Buterindisclosed that he once applied for an internship at Ripple in mid-2013. Buterin, who co-founded Ethereum two years later, said he missed the opportunity due to visa-related issues.

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