David 'JoelKatz' Schwartz (@JoelKatz) — Twitter Score 186 out of 1000

David 'JoelKatz' Schwartz is a blockchain engineer and CTO Emeritus at Ripple who co-founded the XRP Ledger. David 'JoelKatz' Schwartz's Twitter Score is 185 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of September 2026, ranking #2,636 (top 1%) among 486,860 tracked accounts.

David 'JoelKatz' Schwartz co-founded the XRP Ledger alongside engineers Jed McCaleb and Arthur Britto, with development beginning in 2011. He remains at Ripple as CTO Emeritus, a role that reflects his continued involvement with the protocol he helped architect from its earliest days.

David 'JoelKatz' Schwartz was not named as a defendant in the SEC's civil enforcement action filed in December 2020, which alleged that Ripple Labs, Christian Larsen, and Bradley Garlinghouse raised over $1.3 billion through an unregistered digital asset securities offering involving XRP. That case reached a resolution when, on August 7, 2025, the SEC announced a joint stipulation dismissing appeals in SEC v. Ripple Labs, leaving in effect a final judgment imposing a civil penalty of approximately $125 million against Ripple and an injunction.

David 'JoelKatz' Schwartz has accumulated 706,120 followers as of September 2026 on the platform and has published 55,953 posts. David 'JoelKatz' Schwartz has been mentioned by 424 accounts, with 6,742 total mentions.

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