XRP Ledger Clears Slowdown as Security Fix Slips to November

By Isaac • October 23, 2026 3:20 pm •

The XRP Ledger is back to closing ledgers at its normal pace after a short run of intermittent delays, but developers still owe operators a software fix and a full explanation.

Operators applied a recommended configuration change, normal service returned, and developers are still preparing a software release aimed at the behavior behind the slowdown. At the same time, a separate package of protocol fixes lost enough validator support to restart its two-week activation clock.

Those are two different events. They landed close together, and separating them matters.

As CryptoSlate reported, some XRP Ledger closes began taking longer than the network’s typical rhythm on October 21. Most ledgers continued to close normally, but the occasional delays