By Isaac • August 28, 2026 7:08 pm •
Ripple is trying to make the XRP Ledger smaller before it makes the network’s financial machinery more ambitious.
The company has recommended withdrawing the dormant XChainBridge amendment, a move that could eventually strip more than 10,000 lines of unused code from xrpld. At the same time, XRPL Lending Protocol V1.1 has entered an AI-only security review through Sherlock’s Audit Engine.
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Those two decisions point in the same direction: reduce the old attack surface while testing the new one before native lending reaches users.
Ripple wants dormant bridge code out.
CryptoSlate reports that XChainBridge was designed to connect XRPL with sidechains through witness servers that observe activity and attest to transactions. Ripple ultimately selected Axelar for the
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