Can Ripple's latest development appeal to a dampened XRP investor sentiment 

Venturing into the Layer 2 scaling solutions ecosystem, XRP Ledger (XRPL), a decentralized public blockchain, on 17 October announced that it had begun testing its first EVM-compatible sidechain. This announcement came a year after David Schwartz, Chief Technology Officer at Ripple, announced that an EVM sidechain was in the works.