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XRP Ledger's Quantum Plan Adds 3.6 KB a Transaction, Not a Fee

The Foundation's design adds a post-quantum key and turns the old one off. The base fee does not move, and the three published budgets do not reconcile.

· 10 Nov 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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XRP Ledger's fixCleanup3_4_0 Slips to 4 November After a Two-Hour Dip

Support fell to 26 of 35 validators for about two hours on Wednesday, resetting a 14-day clock. The fix had been due at 09:34 UTC on Friday.

· 23 Oct 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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XRP Ledger Lines Up fixCleanup3_4_0 for 23 October as Lending Waits

Validators have held the bundle above the 80% bar since 9 October, putting activation at 09:34 UTC on 23 October. Three lending amendments are still short.

· 18 Oct 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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RippleX Patched an XRPL Overflow Bug That Could Have Minted XRP

An unchecked 64-bit sum in the payment engine could credit offer owners more XRP than a buyer paid. The fix shipped on 25 September; the report came on Friday.

· 10 Oct 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Brazil's CSD BR Mirrors BTG Pactual Fund Shares on the XRP Ledger

CSD BR, the depository behind 22 trillion reais of Brazilian assets, is copying BTG Pactual fund ownership onto the XRP Ledger. Its own database stays official.

· 30 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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One Dip Below 80% Pushes the XRP Ledger's Batch Upgrade to 9 October

Support is back at 30 of 35 validators, but losing the majority once wiped the two-week countdown. The earliest activation is now 9 October at 14:46 UTC.

· 26 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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XRP Ledger Sets 29 September for Its Batch Payments Upgrade

The fourteen-day countdown began on 15 September with 30 of 35 validators behind it. Accounts of that day's vote count differ by three.

· 20 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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XRP Ledger's Batch Amendment Sits One Validator Short of 80%

Twenty-seven of 35 validators back BatchV1_1, the rebuilt version of an upgrade pulled in February. Accounts differ on whether 28 or 29 votes starts the clock.

· 15 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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XRP Ledger Activates fixCleanup3_3_0 Ahead of Its Lending Protocol

A bundle of protocol fixes went live on XRPL mainnet with 31 of 35 validators behind it. The lending protocol it prepares for is still switched off.

· 13 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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XRP Ledger Order-Book Volume Rises 79% While Trader Count Drops

Evernorth's quarterly report puts order-book volume at 3.57 million XRP a day against 1,111 trading accounts. Outlets differ on how far the account count fell.

· 6 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Ripple Sets Out a Four-Stage Path to a Quantum-Safe XRP Ledger

Ripple's engineering lead described four stages of post-quantum work on the XRP Ledger, with the network-wide amendment targeted for 2028. The stage dates differ by account.

· 30 Aug 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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XRPL Ships xrpld 3.3.0 With Confidential Transfers and Batching

The XRP Ledger shipped xrpld 3.3.0 on 6 August, retiring five old amendments and putting confidential transfers and batching in front of validators.

· 6 Aug 2026· 🕐 4 min read