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>It's is only "needed" to pay for validatiors. It's literally just a reward token.
ETH and BTC are "just reward tokens for validators" too you nitwit.
And XRP isnt't even needed for that.
>If they switched to payouts in ETH tomorrow
Ethereum could switch tokens too, and in fact they already did exactly that. See ETH vs ETC.
And then there are the technical requirements (transfer&call), and economic incentives that come with having a network-specific token.