The official X account on the Solana blockchain has conducted a not-so-veiled investigation into the Ripple-linked XRP cryptocurrency.
A competing social media post said “there is no bridge currency,” infuriating XRP supporters.
There is no bridge currency. Solana has a stablecoin.
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— Solana (@solana) October 28, 2025
as U.Today reportedWestern Union plans to launch a stablecoin on the Solana blockchain next year.
The new product will enable the world-based money transfer giant to increase the efficiency of remittances.
Failed Ripple collaboration
Western Union CEO Devin McGranahan said the money transfer giant tried various alternatives but ultimately decided to settle with Solana.
“We considered the alternatives and concluded that Solana was the right choice,” McGranahan previously said.
Western Union and Ripple initially launched a pilot project in 2015. The latter confirmed that it is working on infrastructure for real-time payments. There were no further details about the pilot.
Western Union confirmed in February that it had begun testing Ripple’s technology for money transfers.
The remittance giant reportedly Under experiment We use the xRapid solution, which uses XRP as the bridge currency.
However, this experiment failed and the partnership between Western Union and Ripple was never made public. In fact, former CEO Hikmet Ersek said, complained The technology was too expensive.
