David Schwartz, the CTO of Ripple, has addressed questions from the XRP community about why Ripple chose to partner with Metaco instead of PolySign, despite their close ties. Schwartz explained that PolySign's roadmap leads in a different direction from Ripple's, making a partnership less suitable. Although Ripple and PolySign share executives, they do not have an official partnership. Some speculate that the decision to partner with Metaco could be related to Ripple's recent campaign toward European expansion, as PolySign is based in the US while Metaco is in Switzerland. There have been talks of a potential synergistic relationship between Ripple and PolySign, but nothing official has been announced.