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XRP Trading on WhatsApp Goes Viral After Solana Labs Co-Founder Responds

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Anjali Belgaumkar

A user on X posted what appears to be a demonstration of buying XRP directly inside WhatsApp using a Solana-based AI agent, and the post has turned heads, including a reaction from Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko.

The user, posting under the handle nxxn, shared what they described as a swap of 0.1 SOL for 5.99 wXRP executed entirely within the WhatsApp messaging app. The instruction given to the bot was straightforward: “buy 0.1 SOL worth of wXRP.”

“I just bought XRP on Solana through WhatsApp,” the user wrote. “Solana is officially ready for boomers.”

The swap was reportedly carried out through @solanaclawagent, an AI-powered trading agent that appears to have integrated with WhatsApp as a conversational interface for on-chain activity.

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Why the Solana Co-Founder’s Reaction Mattered

Yakovenko’s response to the post gave it visibility well beyond what a typical product experiment would receive. When one of the architects of the Solana blockchain publicly acknowledges a use case, the community treats it as a signal of legitimacy rather than a novelty.

For the unversed, Hex Trust and LayerZero launched wrapped XRP on the Solana blockchain in December 2025 with over $100 million in liquidity. Adoption since then has been more measured than some expected, with the majority of wrapped XRP supply still sitting on Ethereum rather than migrating to Solana’s higher-throughput ecosystem.

The demo touches on something the crypto industry has discussed for years without delivering: making on-chain transactions accessible through interfaces that mainstream users already use daily. A WhatsApp interface for executing swaps could change that dynamic by reaching users who would never navigate a traditional DeFi front end.

Community reaction ranged from genuine excitement to playful scepticism. Whether the integration scales beyond a demo or remains a proof of concept is unclear. 

Anjali Belgaumkar

Writer by choice, CryptoCurrency Writer, and Researcher by chance. Currently, focusing on financial news and analysis, as well as cryptocurrency news and data. One may not call me a crypto “Enthusiast” but trust me I'm getting there.

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