XRP Ledger’s Inability to Generate New XRP Tokens Explained by Ripple CTO

David Schwartz, the main technology officer at Ripples, has clearly stated that the XRP Ledger was created to stop the formation of any new XRP tokens. This indicates that the total amount of XRP is set and the XRPL protocol itself cannot increase it.

Generating additional XRP is not feasible. Not even a system malfunction could facilitate such an occurrence.”