J.A. Akinyele, Senior Director of Engineering at Ripple, has been added to the speaker roster for XRP Seoul 2026, the October 3 event at Grand Hyatt Seoul hosted by XRPL Korea with Ripple as Title Sponsor. Akinyele oversees AI, privacy, scalability and institutional-grade infrastructure for the XRP Ledger, positioning him to discuss what comes next for the XRPL ecosystem and efforts to advance the next generation of decentralized finance. He joins Ripple President Monica Long, Markus Infanger, SVP of RippleX, and Chandler Fang, Founder of t54ai. The announcement comes as XRP Ledger version 3.3.0 launches with six amendments for voting, more than a 15% reduction in memory usage, improved online_delete performance, 60 bug fixes identified by an AI red team effort, a shift from C++20 to C++23, and test coverage rising from 82% to 82.9%.