XRP Ledger Resumes Activity After Second Outage in Three Months

The XRP Ledger (XRPL) is back to full functionality after an unexpected halt in transaction validation that lasted about an hour. On Feb. 5, RippleX confirmed that “XRP Ledger has resumed forward progress” and that its team was investigating the cause. The incident raised concerns about the network’s stability and marked the second disruption in less than three months. This latest outage comes amid a challenging period for XRP, which has seen a significant price decline. According to CryptoSlate data, the token has dropped nearly 20% over the past week and is currently trading at $2.52.

Ripple’s Chief Technology Officer David Schwartz acknowledged the network disruption but stated that the exact cause remains unknown. According to Schwartz, early observations indicate that validators stopped publishing confirmations despite the consensus mechanism running as expected. He speculated that servers may have deliberately held back validations to prevent incorrect ledger acceptance.

He stated: “We don’t know the details yet, but it’s likely that servers refused to send validations precisely because they knew something was wrong and wanted to make sure no server accepted a ledger as fully validated when they couldn’t be sure the network would retain and eventually agree on that ledger.”