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Ripple's XRPL ecosystem funding is evolving into a distributed, community-driven governance model for 2026. With over $550M already deployed since 2017 across grants, bounties, hackathons, and accelerator programs, the new model aims to empower builders with clearer pathways to funding and technical support across DeFi, payments, tokenization, AI, gaming, and enterprise finance on the XRP Ledger.