The XRP Ledger’s latest bug fix has been delayed until November after validator support briefly fell below the required threshold, just two days before its planned launch. The amendment, called fixCleanup3_4_0, needed at least 29 votes from the 35 validators trusted by default to activate. Upgrade Delayed Support reached that level on Monday, which kept […]
XAO DAO co-founder Santiago Velez announced that proposal 66 had passed, authorizing the decentralized autonomous organization to deploy 80% of its XRP treasury into Firelight, a DeFi protocol focused on decentralized insurance and yield. The decision would put a large share of the DAO’s XRP holdings to work in a strategy intended to generate returns […]
During the recently concluded conference in Asia, Ripple highlighted how the XRP Ledger is being prepared for a new wave of institutional and developer adoption, with confidential transfers, transaction batching, and dedicated infrastructure for AI agents among the key upgrades. The company aims to expand the network beyond simple payments and toward more complete institutional […]
The XRP Ledger’s Batch V1.1 amendment is one validator vote short of reaching the 80% threshold needed to begin its 14-day activation countdown, after a security rebuild that followed a critical flaw in the original version. The revised code has gone through senior engineering review, adversarial testing, two external security reviews, and AI-assisted analysis before […]
XRP Ledger Foundation CTO Denis Angell has suggested that an integration between X Money and XRP could let users move funds from the payments platform into the token and access yield-generating tools on XRPL. His idea goes beyond simply adding crypto payments to X Money, as he sees a possible connection between X’s wallet product […]
XRPL has pulled its Permission Delegation amendment after a bug bounty report found a high-risk flaw during testing, with a hardened V1.1 now completing security review and QA checks. The episode shows why delegation at the protocol level needs safeguards that extend beyond the basic feature itself. XRPL Reworks Permission Delegation After Bug Report Permission […]
XRPL developer Denis Angell launched a live dashboard this week that scores every amendment on the XRP Ledger for how much of its functionality has actually been exercised on devnet before it reaches mainnet. The tool turns amendment readiness, previously a matter of trust in the process, into a public scorecard that shows exactly which […]
XAO DAO is preparing a series of governance changes for the XRP Ledger over the next two to three months, according to Fabio Marzella, the organization’s co-founder. The planned changes would let members delegate voting power, adjust quorum rules, and access community mini-grants, as the DAO looks to make participation easier and more representative, at […]
On August 9, a bridge connecting the XRP Ledger and Coreum (now rebranded as tx) lost close to 200,000 XRP after an attacker tricked its deposit-checking system into treating a wallet-to-wallet transfer as a real deposit. The bridge has since halted, and both the operator and outside researchers have traced the failure to Coreum-side software […]
XRPL has released version 3.3.0, which takes another step toward becoming infrastructure for institutional tokenization. It introduces several proposed amendments focused on privacy, payments, and managing real-world assets (RWAs). Confidential Transfers Perhaps the most significant new feature is called Confidential Transfer. It’s designed to allow institutions to hide balances and transaction amounts for Multi-Purpose Tokens […]