Ripple's former Chief Technology Officer David Schwartz has questioned the view that burning XRP tokens can directly push up the price. He cited Stellar's example of burning half of its token supply in 2019, pointing out that this move did not immediately increase the price. He believes that token burns have no direct impact on valuation but may indirectly affect the market. The discussion subsequently extended to whether Ripple's stablecoin RLUSD and real-world asset tokenization based on XRPL can directly boost the price of XRP.