Ripple CTO David Schwartz, in a current response on
X customers requested Ripple CTO to make clear about clawbacks and whether or not this characteristic could possibly be used to get well XRP misplaced on account of fraud.
Ripple’s CTO answered within the damaging, emphasizing that this query is supposed to doubtlessly encourage refund scammers. Schwartz added that solely the issuer of the token can get it again, and since XRP doesn’t have an issuer, the token can’t be taken again.
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Sorry, no. Solely the issuer of the asset can retrieve it. Since XRP has no issuer, there isn’t a one who can get it again.
— David ‘JoelKatz’ Schwartz (@JoelKatz) November 14, 2025
In August 2024, the clawback repair enabled clawback performance on the XRP Ledger.
The AMM Clawback characteristic, enabled by the January 2025 AMM Clawback Modification, permits the clawback of tokens from holders who’ve deposited their issued tokens into the AMM pool. With this repair, the Ripple USD stablecoin RLUSD (clawback token) can now be traded and exchanged instantly on the XRP Ledger’s DEX.
XRP can’t be recovered
Clawbacks are mandatory as a result of, for regulatory and compliance functions, some issuers could require the flexibility to get well tokens after they’ve been distributed to an account.
For instance, if the issuer discovers that tokens had been despatched to an account approved for criminal activity, the issuer could get well or get well funds. The flexibility to get your funds again is managed in a different way for every token sort and should be enabled by the issuer. This characteristic just isn’t automated because the issuer should provoke the clawback. Moreover, MPT tokens could also be clawbacked by the issuer if the clawback characteristic is enabled for the MPT issuance. This characteristic was added by MPTokenv1amendment and enabled in January of this 12 months.
Nevertheless, because the Ripple CTO said, XRP just isn’t a token (all property apart from XRP could be represented as tokens on the XRP ledger) and can’t be retrieved as there isn’t a issuer.
The entire provide of XRP is mounted at 100 billion, absolutely created at launch in 2012, and can’t be mined or created sooner or later.
