With a bow more gracious than any enjoyed by Lestat, Ripple announces the crimson curtain call of their CTO. David Schwartz descends from his digital pulpit to don the hat of Emeritus.
Ripple divulged, with all the subtlety of Proust’s memories, that the venerable David Schwartz, whose tenure outlasted several of our era’s bitcoins, has indeed retired to a less quotidian pastime. As of the end of December 2025, his work-life metamorphosis led him to adopt the appellation CTO Emeritus.
The thirteen years he cataloged the cryptographic realia of Ripple’s digital dreams marked the twilight of his day-to-day technical fiefdom. Under his stewardship, Ripple’s cross-border payment infrastructure bloomed, quite like a butterfly emerging from an egg-except significantly less gossamer.
Ripple’s annals reveal Schwartz as the co-architect of the XRP Ledger. He sculpted its architecture with the expertise of one who danced with ciphers and oscillated with quantum strings over a decade, influencing Ripple’s techie ethos and prodding blockchain technologies into a new day.
Not merely retreating into obscurity, Schwartz moonlights on the board-a siren’s call to guidance unsated. His new role, CTO Emeritus, serves as an official writ to his continuous counsel-a constant in the forever-changing equation of Ripple’s calculus.
As life obliges us to introspection, I reminisced on forty waltzes around the sun. From consulting the venerable NSA to witnessing Bitcoin’s cradle days, I’ve passed through a veritable French novel of technology. Meeting Arthur, Jed, and Chris, and then toiling with the cryptic syntax of the XRP Ledger, my thirteen-year epic concluded…
– David ‘JoelKatz’ Schwartz (@JoelKatz)
October 2025 saw Schwartz trumpet his retirement over social waves. Balance between personal undertakings and professional helmsmanship was his declared raison d’être-avidly shrugging off his mantle for fatherly duties and those hobbies whispered through years.
The baton pass finds Dennis Jarosch, washed and rinsed in the Senior Vice rituals of Engineering, elevated to the drapery of technical overseer. Ripple whispers this lamp changing as evocative choreography rehearsed long before the actual count.
The denizens of Ripple’s corporate citadel rang-out their ovations for Schwartz, echoing through Brad Garlinghouse’s synapses, thereby etching his technology-induced mark within Ripple’s pantheon of influencers.
In conjunction with these laudatory chimes, Schwartz expanded his advisory dias to Evernorth, an unforeseen entry conferring upon him the title of technological troubleshooter.
Despite saying adieu, his acolyte’s heart for XRP Ledger’s ecosystem lingers. His future endeavors entice, including scientific quests and inventive applications-worthy of the pursuits of absent-minded professors.
His departure unfurled in an industry-wide sigh of reverence, not bereft of fondness. His craft etched Ripple’s credibility into unyielding stone, a legacy that, much like Nabokov’s Darths, will resist the erosion of time.
The shift in Ripple’s ecclesiastical bishoprics reflects maturation-the tested veneer of leadership transitions revealed that while roles shift in the shadows, virtuosos never truly vanish.
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2026-01-04 09:48