Why
$XRP's censorship resistance makes a difference:
Most blockchains talk about censorship resistance, but let's talk about what actually matters:
🔸 Hard censorship = blocking valid transactions entirely
🔸 Soft censorship = delaying/gaming transactions
Bitcoin crushes hard censorship
But has ZERO defense against soft censorship
why that matters 👇
For DEXs, soft censorship = death by front-running
PoW miners WILL game your trades - it's mathematically inevitable. Mining is a race to the bottom. If front-running increases profits, miners have no choice but to do it.
$XRP Ledger? Different story:
- Excellent hard censorship resistance (majority conspiracy required)
- Excellent SOFT censorship resistance (requires 51% attack)
- Any censorship attempt is PROVABLE (validators sign messages)
- Bad validators get replaced by stakeholders
XRP Ledger can handle use cases that PoW chains simply can't - especially decentralized exchanges.
This is fundamental design superiority. ☀️
The XRP Ledger censorship resistant consensus model led to the creation of the first decentralized exchange in crypto.
It's the nuanced difference that makes the XRPL so differentiated but so hard to story tell because of the knowledge barriers you need to overcome.