XRP Ledger bug fix moved to November after validator support dipped for two hours
The activation of a bug fix for the XRP Ledger has been delayed until November after the network failed to maintain the required 80% validator support for 14 consecutive days. The patch aims to resolve issues related to token burning and lending protocols within the Ripple ecosystem.
Why it matters
The delay underscores the challenges of decentralized governance and the technical rigor required to update blockchain network protocols.
Validators are the independent servers that agree on which transactions count. Changing the network’s rules needs backing from more than 80% of the 35 the network trusts by default, which works out to 29.
That support gets checked roughly every 15 minutes, and it has to hold at every single check for 14 days straight. Miss once, even briefly, and the clock goes back to zero.
The fix, called fixCleanup3_4_0, had no room for that. It sat at exactly 29 votes on Monday, with activation penciled in for 09:34 UTC on Oct. 23. At a checkpoint at 12:54 UTC on Wednesday, only 26 validators were voting yes, according to XRPL Dashboard .
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