Why Solana Can’t Stop Talking About XRP – Analyst Calls Out “Punching Up” Behavior

Crypto communities love a rivalry, but sometimes the drama says more about the attacker than the target. That’s the message crypto analyst nietzbux shared when the official Solana account and some of its most vocal developers took shots at XRP following Western Union’s new stablecoin launch on Solana.

He didn’t hold back. “All this has done is reveal the immense insecurities of SOL supporters,” he wrote, pointing out how odd it is that Solana tried turning its own adoption announcement into a jab at Ripple. According to him, Western Union issuing a USD stablecoin is a decent step, but nothing close to what Ripple already did years ago. XRP’s partnership with MoneyGram brought real cross-border liquidity testing before the SEC lawsuit shut it down – and in his view, trying to compare the two only highlights how late Solana is to the party.

His biggest point is simple: Solana shouldn’t need to frame its wins around another project in order to make them sound important. If anything, it signals that XRP still lives rent-free in their heads. He wrote, “You have to really be punching up to make your own PR release about another coin.” And he’s right – Solana currently sits below XRP in market cap, and no chain throwing a punch upward is doing so from a place of comfort.

Ripple partnered with Moneygram 6 years ago and it ended after the lawsuit. Western Union issuing a single USD stable coin on Solana is nice adoption, but mostly a lukewarm event in today’s world of mass adoption. The fact that Solana and its lead dev are calling this a dark…

— nietzbux (@nietzbux) October 28, 2025

What this moment really exposes is the evolving narrative around utility. XRP has spent more than a decade building infrastructure for global payments, central bank collaborations, and settlement tech. Ripple is now pushing into the $120 trillion corporate treasury market, deeper institutional liquidity, and stablecoin integrations with actual compliance. Meanwhile, a Western Union stablecoin launch – while nice – doesn’t exactly redefine payments on a global scale.

That’s why the analyst says the victory lap feels forced. It’s not that Solana shouldn’t celebrate adoption. It’s that the celebration immediately turned defensive, with comments implying that “bridge currencies are useless” and XRP’s impact is overstated. If that were truly the case, why mention XRP at all?

Even nietzbux acknowledged that he has no hate for Solana – it’s fast, it’s growing, and it has a thriving community. But when a chain’s biggest talking point in a press moment revolves around another asset, it doesn’t scream confidence. It screams insecurity.

XRP has its critics, always has. But the louder the haters get on a day that should’ve been all about Solana, the clearer it becomes: XRP still sets the standard in the payments arena. Whether Solana supporters like it or not, the conversation keeps circling back to the bridge asset that refuses to die.

And that says everything.

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