# XRP Ledger Validators Vote on Encrypted Institutional Transfers as Privacy Becomes a Product Requirement

The Confidential Transfer amendment would hide balances and amounts for tokenised assets using elliptic-curve encryption and zero-knowledge proofs, and needs 80% validator support for two consecutive weeks to activate.

- Published: 2026-08-09T06:30:14.346Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/crypto/2026-08-09/xrp-ledger-validators-vote-on-encrypted-institutional-transf
- Publisher: Polylog (Crypto desk)
- Section: crypto
- Sources: [crypto.news](https://crypto.news/xrp-ledger-privacy-vote-targets-530m-dollar-rwa-market/), [Miden](https://miden.xyz/blog/practical-privacy), [Miden](https://miden.xyz/blog/what-is-miden-guardian)

XRP Ledger version 3.3.0 has put six amendments to a validator vote, and the one that matters for institutional adoption is Confidential Transfer. It would allow Multi-Purpose Tokens, the format used on the ledger for instruments such as fu…

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