XRP Ledger is one vote away from starting its next big payments upgrade

RippleX, the developer team at payments company Ripple, detailed the latest repairs Monday in a review of Batch V1.1 , a feature that has yet to go live on the XRP Ledger.

Batch would let users combine as many as eight transactions into one operation. Two people swapping tokens, for example, could make sure both transfers complete together instead of one person sending funds only to find the other side failed.

The upgrade had support from 27 of 35 trusted validators in a Tuesday snapshot , or roughly 77%. XRP Ledger changes need 80% backing, a threshold set so that alterations to the network only take effect when almost every trusted operator agrees. That makes a single holdout decisive at this stage, and one more vote would start the two-week countdown toward activation.